forum codes

[Anon]

Hi,

does anyone have a function that parses a string like most forums do? I mean, if the string contains [link]some[/link] it will become an a-tag, and you can also use , , [img],

...

I was thinking about writing this myself, but my knowlegde of regular expressions isn't very good...

[laurabrandt]

Well, you can use something like this

$articletitle = eregi_replace("[b]","<B>",$articletitle);
$articletitle = eregi_replace("[i]","<I>",$articletitle);
etc.

Or you can use str_replace

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

Hope this helps

Laura Brandt

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[jc94062]

Your HTML got parsed...

$articletitle = eregi_replace("[b]","&lt;b&gt;",$articletitle);
$articletitle = eregi_replace("[i]","&lt;i&gt;",$articletitle);
etc.

[Anon]

ok, thanks, but that's only the easy stuff - the hard part is something like this : or [link]url[/link] and [link href="url"]jfjslkfsdljfsd[/link]
what makes it even harder : I want the quotes around the url in the last one to be optional...
anyone ever made something like this? it's the same thing as ezboard uses, and I think ultraboard and yabb also have their own version of this... but I need it in PHP...

[Anon]

ok, I think I found what I was looking for. I downloaded blazeboard, and got the code from their source... I'm posting it here because maybe some people will be able to learn from it (including me) - but it's probably their property...

$message = str_replace("&","&amp;",$message);
$message = str_replace("<","&lt;",$message);
$message = str_replace(">","&gt;",$message);

$message = nl2br($message);

$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta("😃"),"<img src=\"images/smilies/biggrin.gif\" border=0>",$message);
$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta("🙁"),"<img src=\"images/smilies/frown.gif\" border=0>",$message);
$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta(":o"),"<img src=\"images/smilies/redface.gif\" border=0>",$message);
$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta("🙂"),"<img src=\"images/smilies/smile.gif\" border=0>",$message);
$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta("😛"),"<img src=\"images/smilies/tongue.gif\" border=0>",$message);
$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta("😉"),"<img src=\"images/smilies/wink.gif\" border=0>",$message);

$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta(""),quotemeta("<b>"),$message);
$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta(""),quotemeta("</b>"),$message);
$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta(""),quotemeta("<i>"),$message);
$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta(""),quotemeta("</i>"),$message);
$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta(""),quotemeta("<u>"),$message);
$message = eregi_replace(quotemeta(""),quotemeta("</u>"),$message);

$message = eregi_replace("\[url\]www.([^{\[]*)\[/url\]",} "<a href=\"http://www.\1\" target=blank>\1</a>",$message);
$message = eregi_replace("\[url\]([^\[]*)\[/url\]","<a href=\"\1\" target=blank>\1</a>",$message);

$message = eregi_replace("\*)\]([^\[]*)\[/url\]","<a href=\"\1\" target=_blank>\2</a>",$message);

$message = eregi_replace("\[email\]([^\[]*)\[/email\]", "<a href=\"mailto:\1\">\1</a>",$message);

$message = eregi_replace("quote\]", "quote]", $message);

$message = str_replace("

\r\n", "<blockquote><smallfont>quote:</smallfont><hr>", $message);
$message = str_replace("

", "<blockquote><smallfont>quote:</smallfont><hr>", $message);
$message = str_replace("

\r\n", "<hr></blockquote>", $message);
$message = str_replace("

", "<hr></blockquote>", $message);

$message=eregi_replace("\[img\]([^\[]*)\[/img\]","<img src=\"\1\" border=0>",$message);

$message=eregi_replace("\[swf width=([^\[]) height=([^\[])\]([^\[]*)\[/swf\]","<object classid=\"clsid😃27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4\,0\,2\,0\" width=\"\1\" height=\"\2\"><param name=quality value=high><param name=\"SRC\" value=\"\3\"><embed src=\"\3\" quality=high pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"\1\" height=\"\2\"></embed></object>", $message);