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
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
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] -
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