DZone Snippets: bbcode code

BBCode

Shpigford (Josh) — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:09:42 GMT

Format BBCode input



function bbcode_format($var) {

	$search = array(

		'/\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]/is',                                

		'/\[i\](.*?)\[\/i\]/is',                                

		'/\[u\](.*?)\[\/u\]/is',

		'/\[img\](.*?)\[\/img\]/is',

		'/\[url\](.*?)\[\/url\]/is',

		'/\[url\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/is'

		);



	$replace = array(

		'$1',

		'$1',

		'$1',

		'',

		'$1',

		'$2'

		);



	$var = preg_replace ($search, $replace, $var);



	return $var;

}

a basic regex example in ruby

bloc () — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:24:29 GMT

This is a simple regex in ruby. It returns an array of all bbcode urls.



bbcode_urls = text.scan(/\[url={0,1}.*?\].*?\[\/url\]/)

ubbcode

ichigo () — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:21:38 GMT

a function to convert common used bbcode tags to html... as usually used in message boards and some blog software.

it handles img, email, link, b, u and i tags...

for example



[b]test[/b]

[url=http://blah.com]blah[/url]

will become:



test

blah



function ubbcode($posting) {

	$posting=eregi_replace("\[img\]([^\[]+)\[/img\]","",$posting);

	$posting=eregi_replace("\[email\]([^\[]+)\[/email\]","\\1",$posting);

	$posting=eregi_replace("\[email=([^\[]+)\]([^\[]+)\[/email\]","\\2",$posting);

	$posting=eregi_replace("\[url=([^\[]+)\]([^\[]+)\[/url\]","\\2",$posting);

	$posting=eregi_replace("\[url\]([^\[]+)\[/url\]","\\1",$posting);

    $posting=eregi_replace("\[b\]","",$posting);

    $posting=eregi_replace("\[/b\]","",$posting);

    $posting=eregi_replace("\[u\]","",$posting);

    $posting=eregi_replace("\[/u\]","",$posting);

    $posting=eregi_replace("\[i\]","",$posting);

    $posting=eregi_replace("\[/i\]","",$posting);



    return $posting;

}