removing UBB code

ucbones

Hi,

I run [url]http://www.oxygen-online.org,[/url] and have a "recently on the forums" section. Problem is, those who use formatting show up in the post text, thereby messing it up

[anything in here]text[/anything else in here]

Basically, I guess the best way is just to remove anything between [ and ], I know that's not the best way, but I can't see a (simple) better way.

Problem is, my regex is naff, any ideas anyone?

Dom

drawmack

create an array that contains all of the ubb codes like this:

$ubb_codes = array('b','u',...);

then do something like this

foreach($ubb_codes as $this_code) {
    eregi_replace("\\[/{0,1}$this_code\\]",'',$string);
} //end foreach

of course $string is the string you wish to remove the ubb codes from.

ucbones

thanks for the help drawmack

sorry, but I'd rather remove anything between [ and ], because some of them are more complicated that just

Any other ideas anyone?

dom

drawmack

ucbones,
you just put all the ubb codes into the array at the top of my code and it'll remove the ubb code but leave things where the user is seperating information with braces.

ucbones

yes, but what about where the user specifies color, because then there is an huge number of possible tags, and I don't think that is the best way. I'd rather just remove everything between [ and ], any ideas?

ucbones

pyro

Hopefully users don't try typing something in brackets...

$str = preg_replace("/\\[.*?\\]/", "", $str);