BBCode list with newlines

[Dragen]

Hi,

I'm currently using my own BBCode to create bullet point liists (<ul><li>).

I've got two preg replace calls to turn the code into the HTML lists:

(\[list\](<br />)*(.+?)\[/list\](<br />)*)s

which finds the

[list][/list]

block and replaces it with <ul></ul>

 

(\[\*\](.+?)(<br />)+)

which finds

[*]

and the following text and creates the <li></li>

 

For example, the following text:

[list]
[*]list item 1
[*]list item 2
[*]list item 3
[/list]

would become:

<ul>
<li>list item 1</li>
<li>list item 2</li>
<li>list item 3</li>
</ul>

 

 

The problem I've got is that I need to be able to capture any newline characters within the BBCode

[*]

section.

At the moment, if I try to add a newline in the list it doesn't create the <li></li> properly, it adds the </li> at the newline, when I only want the </li> added on the last newline character:

[list]
[*]item
list 1
[/list]

currently creates:

<ul>
<li>item</li>
list 1
</ul>

When it should be:

<ul>
<li>item<br />
list 1</li>
</ul>

 

 

I've got another part which changes all newlines to <br />, I just need the list part to ignore all, but the last newline in the

[*]

section.

I need to somehow change this regex to do this:

(\[\*\](.+?)(<br />)+)

I've been working on it for ages and it's just evaded me, any help would be brilliant!!

[sasa]

try

<?php
$test = '<ul>
[*]list item 1
[*]list 
item 2
[*]list item 3
</ul>';
echo $out = preg_replace_callback('/\[\*\]([^[]*)\n(?=\[|<)/', create_function('$a', 'return "<li>".nl2br($a[1])."</li>\n";'), $test);
?>

[Dragen]

Thanks, but that doesn't work as I want to be able to use other bbcode within the lists, which my ereg allows.

could you explain what this part of your regex is doing?

(?=\[|<)