Comments on: Creating a BBCode Parser

By: Desmond Taylor

Desmond Taylor — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:35:37 +0000

I believe there is also an error with your code akdo

bold italic still italic[/i] <– Stops the last bit being italic?

By: Gio

Gio — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:56:16 +0000

Thanks!
It is possible to adapt this in order to create something like Tidypost?
it was a form script used in 2003/2005.
It generated a code that you could post into the topic field.
it had input fields, like image url, album url, preview, genre, bitrate, etc.

example:
http://www.clubbingspain.com/phpBB/dj-sets-propios/applejux-you-won-t-like-this-applejux-mix-t13869.html

thanks

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:53:36 +0000

Yes, this is very basic and has much room for improvement. If you give it malformed BBCode, you’ll get malformed HTML. So obviously this shouldn’t be used on a public interface. This is really just meant to demonstrate the concept.

By: aldo

aldo — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:00:13 +0000

I don't mean to be mean or anything, but this is a really bad BBCode parser. What about generating valid HTML? If I did [b]bold [i]italc[/b] still italic[/i] it would generate: bold italic still italic when it should be: bold italic still italic[/i]

By: Karl Roos

Karl Roos — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:26:25 +0000

Great code! Thanks!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:26:03 +0000

TinyMCE looks like a good choice for a rich text editor that comes with BBCode support. http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

By: neo22s

neo22s — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:01:37 +0000

Do you recommend any BBCODE editor for the front end user?

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:25:28 +0000

That’s a good point. I’ll edit the regex to allow only URLs.

By: lec

lec — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:49:45 +0000

Though it’s compact and cute, the url tag could be used for various exploits, the htmlentities() notwithstanding (using javascript: schemes, for example).

Perhaps you ought to change the (.*?) to a regex that will match only proper urls.