Implementing Wikipedia-style Editing

[Fotinakis]

I have created a simple content management system for my web site and I would like to use Wikipedia-style coding in the editing of pages.

Is there an easy way to obtain/use the string replace function that Wikipedia uses to change things like '''this''' into bold text and to make [site.com This Text] a link?

Would there be anything wrong with just writing a function that has a bunch of str_replace that changes things like three apostrophies into <b> and </b>.

I'm not experienced with regular expressions enough to know how to use them, but I think it could help in this situation, right? For example, how would I change the first set of three apostrophies into <b> and the second set into </b> ? Or, determine that [http://site.com This Link] is a link when [this is not] ?

Cheers,

[nos]

You might want to look at using BB_Code, there's a PHP class available at:

http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_BBCodeParser

That can get you started.

[Ruben K.]

You might want to look at using BB_Code, there's a PHP class available at:

http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_BBCodeParser

That can get you started.

HTML_BBCode Parser is actually not a good idea.
It is quite buggy and you still need to nl2br() and filter evil html chars out.

[Fotinakis]

Thanks guys,
Since I only require a few different expressions (and I prefer the wikipedia-type syntax over bbcode syntax anyway), I'm just going to write a function to str_replace and preg_replace what I need. Thanks again.