[SOLVED] [ ] tags - what on earth does it mean?

[PC Nerd]

Hi.

 

Im looking at some code and I came across lines that look like this:

 

show_menu(1,0,1,true,'<li>[a][menu_title][/a]</li>','','','','','class="current"');

 

now i can tell about the arguments etc, however what is the [a][menu_title][/a]  doing - and what language is it?  I understand that BBcode can use that sort of thing for forum text stuff - which is also the format that we use here on PHPfreaks.  however personally the [menu_title] looks like a variable to me... just in its usage.

 

Can someone let me know if I am thinking correctly that this is a variable?  or is there somethign in PHP that ive missed completly?

 

 

Thanks

[revraz]

Its BBCODE.

[PC Nerd]

cheers