&lt;bold&gt; &lt;/bold&gt;

<bold> </bold>

thebay

Anyone can show me how to use phpbb.
such as <bold> </bold> just like the interface of this forum (B I U
tool bars).

Mordecai

I'm afraid I don't understand your question. Can you perhaps rephrase?

If you are looking for how to use the codes on the board, just put the code (B,I,U,URL,IMG, etc.) between square brackets ([]), and then end it using a [/] bracket, also containing the code.
Example: [php]this is PHP code[/php]

If you want to know how to use codes in your own forum, then you'll have to use regular expressions, like this:

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

This works exactly like the vBulletin [url] tag.

TheNookie

Think he means the [.B] text [./B] one.. (without the ".")

thebay

See the tool bar on top of this text area, when I highlight
a part of sentence , then click B, or I, the bold or italic output
will show.

My question is how to implement such tool bar fuctions, which contain various html tags(font, size, bold, etc..) when I use text
area for typing ...

Mordecai

This board uses javascript to do those buttons. The functions the buttons call alter the input field (what you type into), and then the board changes these codes into HTML tags.