BBCode Parser

[ajicles]

I was wonder how I could make some BBcode for my messaging system I made for a website. I made some simple ones like just by replace [ red ] with font color etc. I want to know how to do something like this:

 

[ url = http://google . ca] Google [ / url ] without the spaces.

 

~AJ

[jcbones]

A very simple bbcode function.

 

function bbcode($content)
{
$content = preg_replace("~\[b\](.+?)\[\/b\]~i", "<b>$1</b>", $content);
$content = preg_replace("~\[i\](.+?)\[\/i\]~i", "<i>$1</i>", $content);
$content = preg_replace("~\[u\](.+?)\[\/u\]~i", "<u>$1</u>", $content);
$content = preg_replace("~\[img\](.+?)\[\/img\]~i", "<img src=\"$1\" alt=\"\" />", $content);
$content = preg_replace("~\[url\](.+?)\[\/url\]~i", "<a href=\"$1\">[Link]</a>", $content);
$content = preg_replace("~\[url=http://(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/url\]~i", "<a href=\"$1\">$2</a>", $content);
$content = str_replace("\n", '<br />', $content);
return($content);
}

 

It accepts the following:

[url]http://google.com[/url]
[url=http://google.com]Custom Text[/url]
[img=http://mysite.com/images/somepic.jpg]
[b]Bold[/b]
[u]Underline[/u]
[i]Italics[/i]

 

[ajicles]

Thank you very much