bb code

[Nick]

I'm sure this has been discussed before but the search function keeps telling me crap about having to have at least 3 words, even when I have a whole sentence

Anyways, how can I incorperate 'bb code' into my pages? Or something similar. Like, when people are entering text into a textarea, placeing

TEXT

will make whatever inside those tags have font x and size y, etc? I can do it with variables, by doing something like

$Quote = '<font size=2 color=#efefef>'

But how about more BB Code type stuff?

Thanks!

[SJH]

Try this:

$text = '[ quote]Text[ /quote]';
eregi_replace("\\[quote\\]([^\\[]*)\\[/quote\\]", "<div class=\"quote\">\\1</div>", $text);
echo $text; 

Couple of things:
1. Delete the spaces after the ['s in the $text variable.
2. Create a CSS class called "quote" and all styling can be applied via that.

Hope this helps [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]

-Sam

[Anim8d Life]

No need to create a class called quote, unless that you intend to only use it once. Just redefine the INPUT , TEXTAREA, etc. tag within a CSS and you can do anything & everything you want.

If you need variances, then do a child INTPUT.quote1, INPUT.quote2, etc.

[Gaheris]

Uh, Anim8d Life, he asked about how to implement BB Code.

[Anim8d Life]

Yea, not sure how to display code, w/o it rendering

[TheDragonMaster]

Hi.
Wouldn`t it better to use preg_replace instead of eregi_replace?

Like this:

$string = '[*quote]My Quote[/*quote]';
$string = preg_replace("`\[quote\](.*?)\[/quote\]`is", "<div class='quote'>\\1</div>", $string); 

Thats how I`ve done it until now... espacially if he want to use more than this one BBCode ereg should be to slow and does force the server to much (I`m out of right words to explain...).

Edit: This is an example of more BBCodes:

$string = preg_replace("`\[(b|u|i|s|tt|center)\](.*)\[/\\1\]`is", "<\\1>\\2</\\1>", $string);
// This will give you the following BBCodes:
// b, u, i, s, tt, center - they do the same as their HTML-Opposits as(/because) they are translated into them...
$string = preg_replace("`\[font=(.*)\](.*?)\[/font\]`is", "<font face='\\1'>\\2</font>", $string);
// That should enable you to use the font-BBCode to change the font-face 

The Color-BBCode should be the same as the font... you will only have to change a few things.

[SJH]

Your second example would work, however, if he wants to go for XHTML compliance, this wouldn't be an acceptable solution unfortunately.

On a CMS I'm developing, I make [b] into <strong> and [i] into <em> (which are still within XHTML standards) - any other formatting tags I leave out - although one work around would be to convert [u] into something like <span style="text-decoration: underline;">, which although slightly longer, would still provide a standards-compliant way of displaying it.

Although, this all depends on whether he wants his site to be compliant with the latest standards or not [img]images/smilies/wink.gif[/img]

-Sam

[Nick]

I'll try that, thanks.

Oh, and, i'm not too worried about being xhtml compliant

[Gaheris]

Oh, and, i'm not too worried about being xhtml compliant

Too bad, I hope you're at least writing W3C compliant HTML 4.01 markup?

[Nick]

Too bad, I hope you're at least writing W3C compliant HTML 4.01 markup?

For the most part, yes, I make my code clean.

[TheDragonMaster]

I don`t use strong or em... normaly I use span style insteed...

But I`m also not intrested to do things like W3C say`s... everytime I try it I get a couple of errors... like if I want to trade Parameters in URL`s I get an error like "expecting ; in Blabla on Line blabla"... because I use it like script.php?next=true&back=false or something like that... I don`t know why that happend by me and not by the other people... but I`ve given up to try it... ^^"

But I only want to show an example not the perfect way... if such a way exists... ^^"

[weirdbeardmt]

Off Topic:

I'm sure this has been discussed before but the search function keeps telling me crap about having to have at least 3 words, even when I have a whole sentence

That refers to each word having to have at least three letters not the phrase having at least three words..

[Nick]

Hmm excuse me if I am being thick...here is my code:

<?
 $string = preg_replace("`\[(b|u|i|s|tt|center)\](.*)\[/\\1\]`is", "<\\1>\\2</\\1>", $string);
// This will give you the following BBCodes:
// b, u, i, s, tt, center - they do the same as their HTML-Opposits as(/because) they are translated into them...
$string = preg_replace("`\[font=(.*)\](.*?)\[/font\]`is", "<font face='\\1'>\\2</font>", $string);
// That should enable you to use the font-BBCode to change the font-face 
?>
<?
echo
'
[b]Bold[/b]
';
?>

EDIT: Don't know why it is turning the [] into <> at bold, but it is written []

But it does not work.

[Gaheris]

You could have told us what wasn't working, anyway, try this.

$string = preg_replace("`\[(b|u|i|s|tt|center)\](.*)\[/\\1\]`isU", "<\\1>\\2</\\1>", $string);
$string = preg_replace("`\[font=(.*)\](.*?)\[/font\]`isU", "<font face='\\1'>\\2</font>", $string); 

[Croft]

Finaly i find some cool coders =)
For adding bbcode to forms and stuff i use this.

/************************************************/
/* BBCode v1.0a */
/* Date: 03/2003 */
/* */
/* A simple and effective script that */
/* allows you to implement bbcode type */
/* behaviour on your php website. */
/* */
/* Contact: bbcode@netgem.freeserve.co.uk */
/* */
/* Usage: */
/* */
/* Put the following line at the top of */
/* the page you want to have the bbocde */
/* in...(assumes both pages are in the */
/* folder */
/* */
/* include("bbCode.php"); */
/* */
/* Pass the text to the function: */
/* */
/* $mytext = BBCode("This is my BBCODE"); */
/* or */
/* $mytext = "This is my text"; */
/* $mytext = BBCode($mytext); */
/* */
/* echo $mytext; */
/* */
/************************************************/

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}

.bold {
font-weight: bold;
}

.italics {
font-style: italic;
}

.underline {
text-decoration: underline;
}

.strikethrough {
text-decoration: line-through;
}

.overline {
text-decoration: overline;
}

.sized {
text-size:
}

.quotecodeheader {
font-family: Verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
}

.codebody {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Courier new, courier, mono;
font-size: 12px;
color: #006600;
border: 1px solid #BFBFBF;
}

.quotebody {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Courier new, courier, mono;
font-size: 12px;
color: #660002;
border: 1px solid #BFBFBF;
}

.listbullet {
list-style-type: disc;
list-style-position: inside;
}

.listdecimal {
list-style-type: decimal;
list-style-position: inside;
}

.listlowerroman {
list-style-type: lower-roman;
list-style-position: inside;
}

.listupperroman {
list-style-type: upper-roman;
list-style-position: inside;
}

.listloweralpha {
list-style-type: lower-alpha;
list-style-position: inside;
}

.listupperalpha {
list-style-type: upper-alpha;
list-style-position: inside;
}
-->
</style>

<?php
//Local copy

function BBCode($Text)
{
// Replace any html brackets with HTML Entities to prevent executing HTML or script
// Don't use strip_tags here because it breaks [url] search by replacing & with amp
$Text = str_replace("<", "&lt", $Text);
$Text = str_replace(">", "&gt", $Text);

// Convert new line chars to html <br /> tags
$Text = nl2br($Text);

// Set up the parameters for a URL search string
$URLSearchString = " a-zA-Z0-9\:\/\-\?\&\.\=\_\~\#\'";
// Set up the parameters for a MAIL search string
$MAILSearchString = $URLSearchString . " a-zA-Z0-9\.@";

// Perform URL Search
$Text = preg_replace("/\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/", '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>', $Text);
$Text = preg_replace("(\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[/url\])", '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$2</a>', $Text);

// Perform MAIL Search
$Text = preg_replace("(\[mail\]([$MAILSearchString]*)\[/mail\])", '<a href="mailto:$1">$1</a>', $Text);
$Text = preg_replace("/\[mail\=([$MAILSearchString]*)\](.+?)\[\/mail\]/", '<a href="mailto:$1">$2</a>', $Text);

// Check for bold text
$Text = preg_replace("(\[b\](.+?)\[\/b])is",'<span class="bold">$1</span>',$Text);

// Check for Italics text
$Text = preg_replace("(\[i\](.+?)\[\/i\])is",'<span class="italics">$1</span>',$Text);

// Check for Underline text
$Text = preg_replace("(\[u\](.+?)\[\/u\])is",'<span class="underline">$1</span>',$Text);

// Check for strike-through text
$Text = preg_replace("(\[s\](.+?)\[\/s\])is",'<span class="strikethrough">$1</span>',$Text);

// Check for over-line text
$Text = preg_replace("(\[o\](.+?)\[\/o\])is",'<span class="overline">$1</span>',$Text);

// Check for colored text
$Text = preg_replace("(\[color=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/color\])is","<span style=\"color: $1\">$2</span>",$Text);

// Check for sized text
$Text = preg_replace("(\[size=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/size\])is","<span style=\"font-size: $1px\">$2</span>",$Text);

// Check for list text
$Text = preg_replace("/\[list\](.+?)\[\/list\]/is", '<ul class="listbullet">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
$Text = preg_replace("/\[list=1\](.+?)\[\/list\]/is", '<ul class="listdecimal">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
$Text = preg_replace("/\[list=i\](.+?)\[\/list\]/s", '<ul class="listlowerroman">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
$Text = preg_replace("/\[list=I\](.+?)\[\/list\]/s", '<ul class="listupperroman">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
$Text = preg_replace("/\[list=a\](.+?)\[\/list\]/s", '<ul class="listloweralpha">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
$Text = preg_replace("/\[list=A\](.+?)\[\/list\]/s", '<ul class="listupperalpha">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
$Text = str_replace("[*]", "<li>", $Text);


// Check for font change text
$Text = preg_replace("(\[font=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/font\])","<span style=\"font-family: $1;\">$2</span>",$Text);

// Declare the format for [code] layout
$CodeLayout = '<table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="quotecodeheader"> Code/td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="codebody">$1</td>
</tr>
</table>';
// Check for [code] text
$Text = preg_replace("/\[code\](.+?)\[\/code\]/is","$CodeLayout", $Text);

// Declare the format for [quote] layout
$QuoteLayout = '<table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="quotecodeheader"> Quote/td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="quotebody">$1</td>
</tr>
</table>';
// Check for [code] text
$Text = preg_replace("/\[quote\](.+?)\[\/quote\]/is","$QuoteLayout", $Text);

// Images
// [img]pathtoimage[/img]
$Text = preg_replace("/\[img\](.+?)\[\/img\]/", '<img src="$1">', $Text);
// [img=widthxheight]image source[/img]
$Text = preg_replace("/\[img\=([0-9]*)x([0-9]*)\](.+?)\[\/img\]/", '<img src="$3" height="$2" width="$1">', $Text);

return $Text;
}
?>

Now my question for you good men and women here. Is there ANYONE here that PLEASE PLEASE can add some more bbcodes to this file ?