ubb code

[Anon]

Hi,

I've created a page where people can post their own messages. They can make their post bold, italic, underlined etc. using UBB codes (that's what I think they are called) like and and . Now I've seen on some forums that by using

 and 

one can insert indented html-code. I'd like to add that feature to my page as well. Can anyone tell me how to do that (or at least give me some tips on this subject)?

Thanks in advance, Michiel

[cheald]

In your message display script, you'll need a series of regular expressions to search for the tags you want to be able to use, and replace with with valid HTML. For example, for bold tags:

eregi_replace("","<B>",$message);
eregi_replace("","</B>",$message);

[Anon]

Hi,

that is not exactly what I meant. This is the part I already got. What I'm looking for is a method to display indented html code when it is placed between

 and 

.

Michiel

[cheald]

Well...I assume that you're stripping HTML code when it's read in. Otherwise, they could simply type it out. If you're not, just replace [(/|)code] with &lt;(/|)BLOCKQUOTE&gt;

If you are, then in your HTML stripping routine, be sure you don't strip the code between

 tags. Just replace the [code] tags with blockquotes.

[cheald]

Ah, re-reading, I see what you mean, now 🙂. Just replace "<" with "&lt;" and ">" with "&gt;"

[Anon]

heh...Chris probably means the & l t ; and & g t ; html entities but they get translated (which is why i'm trying it with incorrect spaces between the characters.)

[Anon]

Why not use ..

$text = strip_tags($text);