UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Interpreting UBB code to HTML

Hi guys,

New to PHP and especially forums. I think the various UBB boards out there are great but rather than use their own script I have tried to write my own.

Now this question may be inappropriate because I am trying to hijack ideas but the main thing I have been stuck on for weeks is stripping UBB to return HTML. A simple str_replace array is getting the job done for bold etc however the tricky one is a URL, mainly because it needs to return the string (the url) twice in amongst the UBB codes once parsed.

Any ideas? Or should I pack up and download a standard package BB?

Thanks guys.

We're basically/mainly a perl forum, if you're really interested in rolling your own php forum, you might want to learn more from the freely available ones likes phpbb, invision, etc. ubb.threads is good, but not free

Search php.com for "eregi_replace", put the string (the url) in parenthesis in the pattern part and use \1 to recall it in the replacement part.

Just a note, it took the BB companies lots of time and efforts to make the url tag invulnerable, so if you just make it simple most likely hackers will be able to exploit it (for example, they can start the URL with "javascript:", add inverted commas to get out of href into another event, etc)

Fair enough - no wonder I couldn't work it out.
Thanks guys.