remove bbcode and double quotes

[lajkonik86]

Hey,

I want to preview some posts of my forum on my main page, but the bbcode is being very annoying. I simply want to remove all bbcode from the $text variable.

How can i replace
[whatever is inside this]
with

Secondly how do i remove all double quotes

I've got no clue what function to use, so any help is appreciated 😃

[lajkonik86]

I looked into preg_replace,
but using wildcards is a bit troubeling

[Installer]

Try this:

function text_without_brackets($str)
{
    if (($l_pos = strpos($str, '[')) !== false) {
        $r_pos = strpos($str, ']', $l_pos + 1);
        $len = $r_pos - $l_pos + 1;
        $str = substr_replace($str, '', $l_pos, $len);
        $str = text_without_brackets($str);
    }
    return $str;
}

$string = 'How can i "replace" [whatever is inside this] with [nothing]?';
$string = text_without_brackets($string);
$string = str_replace('"', '', $string);
echo $string;

[lajkonik86]

Thanks a lot 🙂

After removing those things i still had to remove the links and reduce the length

The code i ended up with:

//
// Parse the changes over text
//
function text_without_brackets($str)
{
    if (($l_pos = strpos($str, '[')) !== false) {
        $r_pos = strpos($str, ']', $l_pos + 1);
        $len = $r_pos - $l_pos + 1;
        $str = substr_replace($str, '', $l_pos, $len);
        $str = text_without_brackets($str);
    }
    return $str;
}
function trim_array_values($array, $max_length)
{
  $result = array();
  foreach ($array as $index => $value)
  {
    if (strlen($value) > $max_length)
      $value = substr($value, 0, $max_length) . '...';
    $result[$index] = $value;
  }
  return $result;
}
for ($blue=0;$blue < 7;$blue++) {
$text[$blue] = text_without_brackets($text[$blue]);
$text[$blue] = str_replace('"', '', $text[$blue]);
}
$text = preg_replace("/(http:\/\/(.*)\/)[\S]*/", "", $text);
$text = trim_array_values($text, 65); 
//
// END CHANGING TEXT
//