[ozwald]

I need to get the exact opposite of this function that converts UBB-style script tags to HTML tags:

Code:

function parseCode($text){
  $tagArray['img'] = array('open'=>'<img src="','close'=>'">');
  $tagArray['b'] = array('open'=>'<b>','close'=>'</b>');
  $tagArray['i'] = array('open'=>'<i>','close'=>'</i>');
  $tagArray['u'] = array('open'=>'<u>','close'=>'</u>');
  $tagArray['url'] = array('open'=>'<a href="','close'=>'">\\1</a>');
  $tagArray['email'] = array('open'=>'<a href="mailto:','close'=>'">\\1</a>');
  $tagArray['url=(.*)'] = array('open'=>'<a href="','close'=>'">\\2</a>');
  $tagArray['email=(.*)'] = array('open'=>'<a href="mailto:','close'=>'">\\2</a>');
  $tagArray['color=(.*)'] = array('open'=>'<font color="','close'=>'">\\2</font>');
  $tagArray['size=(.*)'] = array('open'=>'<font size="','close'=>'">\\2</font>');
  $tagArray['font=(.*)'] = array('open'=>'<font face="','close'=>'">\\2</font>');
  $sTagArray['br'] = array('tag'=>'<br>');
  $sTagArray['hr'] = array('tag'=>'<hr>');

  foreach($tagArray as $tagName=>$replace){
    $tagEnd=preg_replace('/\W/Ui','',$tagName);
    $text = preg_replace("|\[$tagName\](.*)\[/$tagEnd\]|Ui","$replace[open]\\1$replace[close]",$text);
  }
  foreach($sTagArray as $tagName=>$replace){
    $text= preg_replace("|\[$tagName\]|Ui","$replace[tag]",$text);
  }
  
	return $text;
}

Basically what I need it to do is instead of convert script tags to HTML tags, I need it to convert HTML tags to the script tags ([b], [u], etc.). I'm sure this wouldn't take long for somebody who knows what they're doing, but this is a little bit over my head yet. It'd be nice if someone could do this for free...but I am willing to pay a small amount via PayPal.

[darksystem]

learn BB code lol... there's a lot of tutorial on that...just ask google.com and type the keyword "BB code Tutorial"

[NeverMind]

here is a free function

PHP Code:

//if you want to enable images, you have to pass a true in the second argument..

function BBCode($string, $allowimgs = false) {



        $from[] = '~\[i\](.*?)\[\/i\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[u\](.*?)\[\/u\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[s\](.*?)\[\/s\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[size=([0-9]*?)\](.*?)\[\/size\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[color=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/color\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[url=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[url\](.*?)\[\/url\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[center\](.*?)\[\/center\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[right\](.*?)\[\/right\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[left\](.*?)\[\/left\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[sub\](.*?)\[\/sub\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[sup\](.*?)\[\/sup\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[pre\](.*?)\[\/pre\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[marquee\](.*?)\[\/marquee\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[marquee=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/marquee\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[quote\](.*?)\[\/quote\]~is';

        $from[] = '~\[code\](.*?)\[\/code\]~is';



        $to[] = '<i>\\1</i>';

        $to[] = '<b>\\1</b>';

        $to[] = '<u>\\1</u>';

        $to[] = '<del>\\1</del>';

        $to[] = '<span style="font-size: \\1pt;">\\2</span>';

        $to[] = '<span style="color: \\1;">\\2</span>';

        $to[] = '<a href="\\1">\\2</a>';

        $to[] = '<a href="\\1">\\1</a>';

        $to[] = '<div align="center">\\1</div>';

        $to[] = '<div align="right">\\1</div>';

        $to[] = '<div align="left">\\1</div>';

        $to[] = '<sub>\\1</sub>';

        $to[] = '<sup>\\1</sup>';

        $to[] = '<pre>\\1</pre>';

        $to[] = '<marquee>\\1</marquee>';

        $to[] = '<marquee direction="\\1">\\2</marquee>';

        $to[] = '<table border="0" width="80%" align="center"><tr><td><span class="quote_head">Quote:</span></td></tr><tr><td><table align="center" width="100%" border="1" class="quote_cell"><tr><td>\\1</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>';

        $to[] = '<table border="0" width="80%" align="center"><tr><td><span class="code_head">Code:</span></td></tr><tr><td><table align="center" width="100%" border="1" class="code_cell"><tr><td class="code">\\1</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>';





    //we don't want to allow imgs all the time!

        if ($allowimgs == true) {

           $from[] = '~\[img\](.*?)\[\/img\]~is';

           $to[]   = '<img src="\\1" border="0" alt="" />';

        }



        $string = preg_replace($from, $to, $string);

         return $string;

} 

example:

PHP Code:

$text = '[b]BBcode[/b] function with [i]italic[/i] and [img]http://www.domain.com/image.jpg[/img]';



$text_without_img = BBCode($text); //will NOT parse [img] tags! [/img]



$text_with_img = BBCode($text, true); //this will parse the [img] 

HTH

P.S. I suggest you do a little search next time before offering money

[ozwald]

I understand there are plenty of free scripts to convert BB code to HTML, but I need to convert HTML to BB code. I haven't been able to find a script that does that.

[NeverMind]

opps...
my bad, I didn't read carefully
what are the tags you would like to convert from HTML to BBCode?

here is a function that will convert the <b><u><i><del> to their BBcodes equivelent:

PHP Code:

function HTML2BBCode($string)

{

        $from[] = '~<i>(.*?)<\/i>~is';

        $from[] = '~<b>(.*?)<\/b>~is';

        $from[] = '~<u>(.*?)<\/u>~is';

        $from[] = '~<del>(.*?)<\/del>~is'; 



        $to[] = '[i]\\1[/i]';

        $to[] = '[b]\\1[/b]';

        $to[] = '[u]\\1[/u]';

        $to[] = '[s]\\1[/s]';



       $string = preg_replace($from, $to, $string);



       return $string;

} 

this is the basic of how you do it.. not tested tho

[ozwald]

No problem.

But I see, it's basically just changing the <> and [] around...it's just the ones for like images and font color and stuff that confused me.

I did dive a little deeper into a google search today, tho, and I found one that uses str_replace() instead of preg_replace()...the code for that one is much more simple, and I think I should be able to reverse it no problem.

Thanks for the help, tho.

[NeverMind]

sorry, I forgot to rename the $to[]s to $from[]s..
code edited above..

the problem with str_replace() is case-sensitivity..
preg_replace() with flag i makes it case-insensitive and that's an advanatge unless you are using PHP5 where you can use str_ireplace().