BBcode help? :)

Is there a way in which you could produce arrays for each of them, so that it only requires one preg_replace? I'm not asking you specifically to do it, but is there a way? :)

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Originally Posted by Joe!

Is there a way in which you could produce arrays for each of them, so that it only requires one preg_replace? I'm not asking you specifically to do it, but is there a way? :)

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PHP Code:

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<?php

$string = '[b]hay [u]lol[/u][/b]';

$bbcode = array(
                    
                    '/\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]/is',
                    '/\[u\](.*?)\[\/u\]/is'
                    
                );
                
$replace = array(
                
                    '<strong>$1</strong>',
                    '<u>$1</u>'
                    
                );
                
$string = preg_replace( $bbcode, $replace, $string );

echo $string;

?>

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@excellent do this:

PHP Code:

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$whatever = "[b] bold [/b] [i] italics [/i]";
echo bbcode($whatever); 


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EDIT: simon beat me :(

Ah thankyou :) I know this may sound dumb, but how do you know where to use slashes and all that with the bbcode bit(/\[b\]) etc? Cheers

If the character is used in reg ex, then you need to escape it.

this worked for me when changing font, size or color using BB:

PHP Code:

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$string = preg_replace("(\[font=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/font\])","<font face=$1>$2</font>",$string);
$string = preg_replace("(\[color=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/color\])","<font color=$1>$2</font>",$string);
$string = preg_replace("(\[size=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/size\])","<font size=$1>$2</font>",$string); 


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