vb code

[Craig Antill]

Please can you change the vb code for a url, to remove the quote marks - this will confuse the stupid people (such as myself!) who are used to 'that other forum' :)

[John]

Unfortunately, that is not very easy to do. I spent a good few hours trying to get it to work like that with PHP's regular expression engine, but I had to give up in the end. :(

If anyone else thinks that they can succeed where I have failed, here is the code:


$bbcode=eregi_replace("\\[url=\"([^\"]*)\"\\]([^\\[]*)\\[\\/url\\]","<a href=\"\\1\" target=_blank>\\2</a>",$bbcode);


John

[Stallion]

I was just trying to get this to work in a propriatary commenting system just yesterday. I ended up using blah (whatever=url)
Its not the best format, but it works. I'll probably go the "" route, seeing as its a lot easier to adjust to.

[WebStyles]

Am I totally missing something here? I changed it to

$bbcode=eregi_replace("\\*)\\]([^\\[]*)\\[\\/url\\]","<a href=\"\\1\" target=_blank>\\2</a>",$bbcode);

It's running live on [url="http://www.were-here.com/forums/index.php"]were-here.com forums (([^\"), and it works just fine. Is that the wrong way to do it?

[John]

It works like that? I'll give it a spin on my machine later - I thought that I had tried everything, but obviously not :(

Thanks for the suggestion.

John

[werehere]

It seems to be working fine on our forum.:)

[WebStyles]

John, it was actually pretty funny... I was trying to get my [swf] BB Code to work, and I figured I needed the quotes in there, but then they would always just show up escaped when I tested the code. Finally I got so frustrated, I took the quotes out all together and it worked, so I figured I would try it on the URL's too, I can't believe it worked! :D

[John]

Oh great! Looks like support for both with and without quotes for the next version then! :)

John

[WebStyles]

I'm not as bad at PHP as I originally thought! ;)