i want to use BB code on my shoutbox, how would i parse it with PHP?

Code your own parser using RegExp.

Make it take the inputted string, and change the UBBC items to HTML items!

Posted By I Anoop I on 24th Feb 08 at 10:53pm

 

i want to use BB code on my shoutbox, how would i parse it with PHP?

Regular Expressions is the best method I know, and it works quite well on my shoutbox. Peter (former PBsupport mod) claims there is a more 1337 method, but he never got back to me on what that was

How much do you know about regular expressions?

That's not a bad idea!

Would that be easier than preg_replace?

Posted By I Anoop I on 24th Feb 08 at 10:56pm

 

That's not a bad idea!

Would that be easier than preg_replace?

preg_replace() is Regular Expressions.

oopsie, thanks.

Posted By Jason on 24th Feb 08 at 10:55pm

 

Posted By I Anoop I on 24th Feb 08 at 10:53pm

 

i want to use BB code on my shoutbox, how would i parse it with PHP?

Regular Expressions is the best method I know, and it works quite well on my shoutbox. Peter (former PBsupport mod) claims there is a more 1337 method, but he never got back to me on what that was

How much do you know about regular expressions?

Well I know one alternative method is to split the string into sections and walk through each section rebuilding the formatted text as you go. That's how I wrote both the table parser and the quote parser here. But that still uses some regular expressions and I don't see how it'd make parsing simplier tags such as bold or italic any better.

There are ones premade you can use.

http://www.corz.org has a nice one. ^_^

~Artemis