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BBCode to XHTML: Two possibilities, one regex?

Hi, I'm writing a small blog module. I want the users to be able to type BBCode. I need to convert that to XHTML to store in the DB, which I managed to do for most of the tags, except for [url]. There are two cases I want to allow: [url=http://stackoverflow.com/] which should be converted to <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com"&g...

BBCode or Wiki markup libraries for .Net?

Hi, Whats your favourite library for .Net for handling either: BBCode markup Wiki markup Why do you use those libraries, what is so good about them and why should I use them? Cheers Moo ...

Is there a solid BB code parser for php that doesn't have any dependancies?

I've got a situation where the client is using php4 and doesn't look like they heave PEAR. Is there an established php bb code parser that will work with vbulletin's bb code system? I just need to convert the bb code to html. This is a data migration from vbulletin to a new platform, so I can't use vbulletin's bb code parser. Docs: ht...

Any good javascript BBCode parser?

Currently i'm parsing bbcode server side but i'd like to show a preview just like this site does. If I process the bbcode serverside using ajax it's a bit laggy, so i thought doing it client side, to just show the preview. Do you guys know any bbcode parser written in javascript? ...

Parsing BBCode with xslt 2.0

Hi. I need help finding a viable solution to convert bbcode to html, this is where ive come so far, but fails when bbcodes get wrapped. Src: [quote id="ohoh81"]asdasda [quote id="ohoh80"]adsad [quote id="ohoh79"]asdad[/quote] [/quote] [/quote] Code: <xsl:variable name="rules"> <code check="&#xD;" >&lt;br/&g...

How to Convert BB Code To HTML view (VB.NET)

Hello , The point of my idea is to write a program for a Web site that has it's own BB CODE (PHP) ,then user of the program can write his message and range his message with this BB code (inside the program) , all this can be done easily , but just one thing I can't do , How can I add a Review before send with this BB code (without conn...

PHP syntax error on preg_replace method

Hello, I'm trying to do a bbcode parser class that can create personalyzed tags, but I have some problem with urls I've did all I need without particular problems thanks to regular expressions but I have a problem when I try to create a special tag who point to a specified URL. In my class I've added a method like this: <? private...

Convert year to difference as bbcode

So i wanna do something like this in php. If i have a year in brackets [1995] I want it to convert it to the the difference of the current year to 1995. Something like "It's been [1995] years since something happened." so with it being 2009, it'd say "It's been 14 years since something happened." Obviously the subtracting part wou...

BBCode to HTML transformation rules

Background I have written very simple BBCode parser using C# which transforms BBCode to HTML. Currently it supports only [b], [i] and [u] tags. I know that BBCode is always considered as valid regardless whatever user have typed. I cannot find strict specification how to transform BBCode to HTML Question Does standard "BBCode to HTML...

BB Code Conversion

I was using str_replace for other bbcodes, but I'm stuck with the url portion. I need to convert: [url=http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;q=brits+pub&amp;near=Pasadena,+CA&amp;fb=1&amp;cid=0,0,17926180203917841249&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_result&amp;resnum...

Help with RegEx

I have a problem with my RegEx. I want to translate a BBCode Link like [link=www.stackoverflow.com]Stack-Overflow[/link] into a HTML Link like <a href='www.stackoverflow.com'>Stack-Overflow</a>. In my String it's possibile to make more than one link in BBCode. I Also need a function to translate the html back to BBCode. My f...

PEAR HTML_BBCodeParser displays backslashes before single and double quotes

I'm trying out the PEAR HTML_BBCodeParser script on my home server. For some reason, the script displays backslashes () before single and double quotes in the text after being parsed. I've skimmed through the code, but can't find the place where it does this. Might have missed something--the file is 900 lines long! If anybody knows what ...

TinyMCE editor - line breaks not correct

Hoping there's some TinyMCE guys in here ready to help. I'm using the BBCode plugin. I have the following lines in the editor window: This is line one This is line three Line two is empty. When I'm viewing this in HTML i get the following. This is line one This is line three Without the extra empty line. tinyMCE.init({ mode ...

Converting phpBB BBCode posts to Markdown

I have a phpBB2 forum with posts stored in BBCode. The forum posts are stored like this in the database: [quote:e5adceb8e8][quote:e5adceb8e8="Person 2"][quote:e5adceb8e8="Person 3"]Nested quote[/quote:e5adceb8e8]Another nested quote[/quote:e5adceb8e8]Some text[/quote:e5adceb8e8] [b:e5adceb8e8]Some bold text[/b:e5adceb8e8] [i:e5adceb8e8...

Regular expressions: Finding BB code in a piece of text

I'm trying to match on "url" BB code tag in a random piece of text. Example text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. [url]http://www.google.com[/url] Donec purus nunc, rhoncus vitae tempus vitae, [url=www.facebook.com]facebook[/url] elementum sit amet justo. I want to find both "url" tags from this text: [u...

PHP RegEx extension - How to strip only url=* ?

Hi! I've written a regular expression to strip out BBCode tags - it just strips the allowed tags out (for later counting the string length without the tags). I'm not an expert when it comes to regular expressions - so after an hour I found this pretty much working: $pattern = "/\[\/?(i|b|u|url(.*?)|list|li)[\]\[]*\]/i"; $stripped = pre...

Integrate MarkItUp Rich Text Editor Preview with ASP.NET MVC App

Update I have have this up and working on my site. http://rsolberg.com/ViewBlog/21 I'm currently testing out the MarkItUp rich text editor in a MVC app, and everything is working great with the exception of the preview. In the settings (set.js), there is a previewParserPath property ("path to your BBCode parser"). I'm not exactly s...

markdown/(X)HTML to BBCode converter python module

Is there any (X)HTML to BBCode coverter python module out there? I'd like to migrate my website forum from markdown to BBCode but I didn't found out any simple way. One option is to convert the markdown text to (X)HTML using the built in django markup module and then convert it again to BBCode. Well, I realized that find a (X)HTML to BB...

Java IDE Plugin or external tool (ant, maven, standalone) that convert bbcode to javadoc ?

I want to format some part of my javadocs with a simpler syntax than the basic html we have to use (for things like bold and italic, also for paragraph and code). Is anybody knows a tool that let me use a kind of bbcode syntax in my source and will transform those bbcode comments into valid javadoc comments ? It could be an IDE plugin,...

Matching nested [quote] in using RegExp.

I'm trying to get regexp to match some nested tags. (Yes I know I should use a parser, but my input will be correct). Example: Text. More text. [quote] First quote [quote] Nested second quote. [/quote] [/quote] Let's say I want the regexp to simply change the tags to <blockquote>: Text. More text. <blockquote> First quote <blockquot...