you can try fckeditor

If you download CKeditor from ckeditor.com, you will see there is a ckeditor.php included. CKeditor replaces FCKeditor that you were used to using. Here is a page that explains how to implement (along with CKfinder which is used for managing image files):
Click Here
If you read this, you can see why CKeditor replaced FCKeditor Click Here

I use PSPad for editing websites and being able to FTP ...as in, I open up PSPad, connect ftp to my site, browse to the file I want to edit, double click to open it up, make changes, file > save to save it back to FTP.

As per a stricktly PHP based editor it's pretty simple.

I've written a very basic editor, you will probably need to modify it to work with your site, your database is probably different than what I've got here for example.

Feel free to ask me questions, I hope that it's enough to get you started with PHP, if you do anything programming you will catch on pretty quickly.

This is just the edit page, you may want to take a stab at a 'new page' page yourself and see if you can do it from what you pick up here.

Goodluck!

<?php

// Make sure you are connected to database
//include("config.php");


// Save page content / overwrite existing page
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$name = mysql_real_escape_string(trim($_POST['name']));
$content = mysql_real_escape_string(trim($_POST['content']));
$ud = mysql_query("UPDATE pages SET page_content='$content' WHERE page_name='$page_name' LIMIT 1");
if($ud){
echo "Page has been saved!";
}else{
echo "There was an error: ".mysql_error();
}
}

if(!empty($_GET['edit'])){
// Get the existing page content so we can then edit it
$edit = mysql_real_scape_string(trim($_GET['edit']));
$get_content = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM pages WHERE page_name='$edit' LIMIT 1");
$count_get_content = mysql_num_rows($get_content);

if($count_get_content > 0){
// We got a page back from mysql, now edit it:
$array_get_content = mysql_fetch_array($get_content); // we limited to 1 result max on line 11, so we do not need a while loop!
$content = $array_get_content['page_content'];
?>
<a href="edit.php">Cancel Changes</a><br /><br />
<form action="edit.php?edit=<?php echo $_GET['edit']; ?>" method="post">
<textarea name="content"><?php echo $content; ?></textarea>
<input type="submit" name="name" value="<?php echo $_GET['edit']; ?>" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Save Page" />

</form>
<?php
}else{
echo "Sorry, but the page {$_GET['edit']} does not exist in the database. <a href=\"new.php?new={$_GET['edit']}\">Create new page?</a>";
}
}else{
//List all pages

$gp = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM pages");
$cgp = mysql_num_rows($gp);
if($cgp > 0){
while($agp = mysql_fetch_array($gp)){
extract($agp);
/* page_id page_name page_content ...these are the mysql column names*/
echo "<a href=\"edit.php?edit=$page_name\">$page_name</a><br />";
}
}else{
echo "<i>No pages</i>";

}
?>

CKeditor should work fine without CKfinder - it's just that the instructions for initiating the CKeditor was on the CKfinder page. That's why I sent that link. I also run it without CKfinder but used that code and it works very well.