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BBCode Parsers and exporting text from a DB


deadpossum

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I'm currently working on a simple (at least I had hoped) script to pull posts from a single "news" forum from phpbb and importing it on the front page of my site.  It works great except for the BBCode issues.  It doesn't keep line breaks (biggest concern) as well as text colors, urls, etc (which was expected).  Talking with a friend, he tells me that I'm going to have to insert some BBCode parser to make things work right.  I have 3 questions regarding this:

 

1) is that my only answer?

 

2) should I try to use the phpbb BBCode parser that the forum uses?

 

3) should I install a custom BBCode parser instead?

 

I did not want to use a portal because they were just over bloated for what I needed and that was simply the posts from the forum itself w/o all the extras like who's online, last post made on the forums, etc.

 

Would it just be easier to try to strip down something like EZportal to just the info I need instead of trying to use this custom script?

 

This is my current operational script which is then placed inside an Iframe on the main page:

http://www.risingsun-kargath.net/news.phps

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