[PHP] bulletin board question...
To all, On a bulletin board (non-usenet) within a website, is it possible to change the color or size of the type - or add a link from a word that the user has posted? For example, John Doe posts: Man, it's hot out here today! Where John changes the default font color - which is black - of the word hot - *to red* - and then links today with a URL to another site like weather.com If so, how would this be accomplished? Any thoughts? Thank you. Tony Ritter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] bulletin board question...
Well with phpBB2 you can use html if the administrator allows it, if not you can use phpBB tags. Things like: Man, it's [color=red]hot[/color] out here [url=http://www.weather.com]today[/url]! All boards are different though so you'll need to read your documentation on that board to figure out how to do it.. If it supports stuff like that :) Cheers! Rick Some people come into our lives and quickly go, others stay for awhile, leaving foot-prints on our hearts and we are never quite the same - Unknown From: Anthony Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 19:39:10 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] bulletin board question... To all, On a bulletin board (non-usenet) within a website, is it possible to change the color or size of the type - or add a link from a word that the user has posted? For example, John Doe posts: Man, it's hot out here today! Where John changes the default font color - which is black - of the word hot - *to red* - and then links today with a URL to another site like weather.com If so, how would this be accomplished? Any thoughts? Thank you. Tony Ritter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] bulletin board question...
Any number of ways you can do it. You can have the user enter in valid HTML and just display it as such. Or you can use a markup language like most BB. Something like [b] for bold, [color=red] text [/color] to change colors, etc. PHP then looks through the post and replaces those tags with the HTML equivalent. ---John Holmes... -Original Message- From: Anthony Ritter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 8:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] bulletin board question... To all, On a bulletin board (non-usenet) within a website, is it possible to change the color or size of the type - or add a link from a word that the user has posted? For example, John Doe posts: Man, it's hot out here today! Where John changes the default font color - which is black - of the word hot - *to red* - and then links today with a URL to another site like weather.com If so, how would this be accomplished? Any thoughts? Thank you. Tony Ritter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] bulletin board question...
You can make up your own tags by just adding more
things to be parsed.
EXAMPLE:
$text = Look at [b]this[/b] website ...;
echo $text;
custom_tags($text);
echo $text;
function custom_tags($text)
{
/* converts special tags into the html counterpart
* [b]text[/b] - bold text
* [i]text[/i] - italicise text
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] - automatically converts to
mailto: link
* [link=http://www.yahoo.com]text[/link]
*
* [list]
* [*] text
* [*] text
* [/list]
*
* [color=value]text to colour[/color] - colourize
some text
* [colour=value]text to colour[/colour] -
colourize some text
* [font=value]text[/font] - value is a class
defined in css file*/
$text = htmlentities($text);
$text =
eregi_replace([0-9a-z]([-_.]?[0-9a-z])*@[0-9a-z](
[-.]?[0-9a-z])*\\.[a-z]{2,3}, a
href=\mailto:\\0\;\\0/a,$text);
$text =
preg_replace(/\[link=(\S+?)\](.*?)\[\/link\]/is,
a href=\\\1\\\2/a,$text);
$text = preg_replace(/\[i\](.*?)\[\/i\]/is,
i\\1/i,$text);
$text = preg_replace(/\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]/is,
b\\1/b,$text);
$text =
preg_replace(/\[list\](\n)?/i,ul,$text);
$text =
preg_replace(/\[\/list\](\n)?/i,/ul,$text);
$text = preg_replace(/\[\*\](.*?)$/ism,
li\\1/li,$text);
$text =
preg_replace(/\[color=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/color\]/is
, font color=\\\1\\\2/font,$text);
$text =
preg_replace(/\[colour=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/colour\]/i
s, font color=\\\1\\\2/font,$text);
$text =
preg_replace(/\[font=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/font\]/is,
font class=\\\1\\\2/font,$text);
return nl2br($text);
}
-Original Message-
From: Anthony Ritter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: May 25, 2002 8:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] bulletin board question...
To all,
On a bulletin board (non-usenet) within a website,
is it possible to change
the color or size of the type - or add a link from
a word that the user has
posted?
For example, John Doe posts:
Man, it's hot out here today!
Where John changes the default font color - which
is black - of the word
hot - *to red* - and then links today with a
URL to another site like
weather.com
If so, how would this be accomplished?
Any thoughts?
Thank you.
Tony Ritter
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