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BBcode editor: PHP - The sensible approach
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By Jonathan Street

There was a time a while ago, around the time of these (BBcode editor & BBcode 'parser') two articles, when I thought processing BBcode submitted by a websites users was a complex matter. I thought it required complex regular expressions and even then my solution was far from complete. In truth, as complex as I thought the problem was, in reality it was probably more complex still.

On the other hand I could have handled the problem of dealing with BBcode far more simply by using one of the very good BBcode parser scripts which are already freely available. I became aware of this soon after finishing those articles when I spotted a BBcode parser on the PEAR website. Since then I’ve spotted a couple of other scripts, also available via PEAR.

The first point to note in this article is to check PEAR if you’re starting a new project as you are likely to find a package or two which can cut out at least a part of the project you were about to undertake.

The second point of this article is a brief introduction to using the first BBcode parser I discovered on PEAR.

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Posted by Streety on August 08th 2006 (14:37)
What can I say richardj, I've learnt a lot since the first two articles.

I've just made a new post on my blog looking in detail at Text_Wiki_BBCode. It has some potential uses but HTML_BBCodeParser would still be my pick.
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Posted by richardj on August 08rd 2006 (19:10)
QUOTE (Red Squirrel @ Aug 2 2006, 07:35 PM)
In truth, as complex as I thought the problem was, in reality it was probably more complex still.

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