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If you'd like to have BBcode on your shoutbox.

been fondling around with regex and here's what i came up with. feel free to copy it. It's quite easy to add more tags.

$str = 'How cool this is bold but this is not . However this is Italic..yay!!';
$bold = '/(\[B\])(.+)(\[\/B\])/';
$italic = '/(\[I\])(.+)(\[\/I\])/';

$str = preg_replace($bold,'<b>\\2</b>',$str);
$str = preg_replace($italic,'<i>\\2</i>',$str);
print $str;

if you want to add more, simply copy $bold or $italic and rename it. let's say i want to center certain text. I copy $bold and replace B with CENTER

$center = '/(\[CENTER\])(.+)(\[\/CENTER\])/';

then you copy one of the replace string, see the <b>\\2</b> ??? just change the tag to center, so for centering, you'll have <center>\\2</center>

now you have

$str = preg_replace($cemter,'<center>\\2</center>',$str);

cool eh? just keep doing it for every tags you want. I've worked on one for [IMG] [URL] tags but it's not easy to modify. The only tags i could think of is. <p> <center> <i> <b> <marquee> <blink> <small> <large>. So on...

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wouldnt it be <b>\\1</b> ?

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it's 2.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

0 is the whole thing
1 is the opening tage, [ B ]
2 is the text in between the tags
3 is the closing tag [/ B ]

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Last edited by CDude, July 29th, 2002 02:20 AM (Edited 1 times)

cool.............but I worry about people hacking using that, like you said in the "For those of you with shoutboxes" post.

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Quote:

Originally posted by ikellen
cool.............but I worry about people hacking using that, like you said in the "For those of you with shoutboxes" post.

they can't hack it. there is no holes in this one. Even this forum uses it and it's been fine.

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Hey CDude nice stuff
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Yep nice code CDUDE I'm sure this will help some people.

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cool man:D

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