[PHP] bb to html

[snapbackz]

* I had to replace examples [ ] with ( ) so they did not get parsed as a quote 😛

The following code takes bbcode like (quote)some quoted text(/quote) and turns it into html. I was hoping someone could help me modify this to include the person it's quoting optionally.

so it would match:
CODEsome quoted text(/quote)[/CODE]

and also match:
CODEsome quoted text(/quote)[/CODE]

function bb2html($text) {
   $find = array(
      '~\[quote\]~is',
      '~\[/quote\]~is'
   );
   $replace = array(
      '<blockquote><div class="quote"><b>Quote:</b><br />',
      '</div></blockquote>'
   );
   return preg_replace($find, $replace, $text);
}

[dagon]

have you tried the php bbcode extension?

[rincewind456]

If you can't use the bbcode extension then I would do this:

$user = 'Fred';
$text = "[quote=username]some quoted text[/quote]";

function bb2html($text,$user='' ){
$find = array(
'[quote]'=> '<blockquote><div class="quote"><b>Quote:</b><br />',
'[/quote]' =>'</div></blockquote>',
'[quote=username]' =>'<blockquote><div class="quote"><b>Quote :'.$user.'</b><br />'
);


return strtr($text, $find);

}
echo bb2html($text,$user);

I wouldn't be using preg_replace for a simple replacement.