Web Development TutorialsWritten By Peter Kelly

Bulletin Board Code or BBCode is a lightweight markup language used to format posts in many message boards. Formats include [b]BOLD[/b] [i]Italics[/i] etc. We will show you how you can create your own function to accept BBCode and will show an example on how to use it.

 Value. The key is the item that will be typed e.g [b] the value will be the html equivilant.
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    $BBCode = array("&" => "&", "<" => "<", ">" => ">", "[b]" => "",
        "[/b]" => "", "[i]" => "", "[/i]" => "", "[u]" => "", "[/u]" =>
        "", "[img]" => ""); // Comment Above
    $parsedtext = str_replace(array_keys($BBCode), array_values($BBCode), $text); //This function will get the input string. and then the keys and values of the array above. It will then replace them with the html equivilant.
    return $parsedtext; // Return $parsedtext.
}
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To run this function you can use the following.