corzblog bbcode to html to bbcode parser (free, php) built-in demo

[big]corzblog bbcode to html to bbcode parser (bbcode tags test)..[/big]

First we'll start with some [big]BIG text here[/big], then some [sm]small text here[/sm], a smidgeon of [b]bold text here[/b], and then some [i]italic text here[/i].

[left]You can do image tags, of course..[/left] [url="https://corz.org/blog/" title="dig my cool logo!"][img]https://corz.org/blog/inc/img/corzblog.png[/img][/url] (notice how I put a simple bbcode link around it, you can nest tags like this, adding pop-up titles, [right][turl="i guess I have a thing about pop-up titles, pity about Opera"][img]https://corz.org/blog/inc/img/corzblog.png[/img][/url][/right]formatting, whatever you like.) You can align them, too..

For links, you can just do regular [url="https://corz.org/blog/inc/cbparser-demo.php" title="this parser's home page!"]bbcode[/url] tags. we use "" double quotes around the URL's. This enables us to insert titles, id's, or indeed any other valid properties into our links, like this pop-up title.. you can put any valid anchor property inside the url tag. [url="https://corz.org" title="my groovy link, with cool pop-up title!"]hover over me![/url]. There are also other [i]flavours [/i]of url..for example a [purl="#special" title="no pop-up with me sonny!"]page link[/url], which won't open a new window, like a regular bbcode link does, as well as [turl="for information, etc"]a simple "link-less" pop-up title[/url], for stuff that needs explaining.

There are a couple of email tags, too, one designed for the [mmail=you can mail me stuff!]webmaster or blogger[/mmail] (my mail), and one that [email=user@example.com]anyone[/email] can use. clever users could even do [email=me@example.com?subject=Oh Fit!]hit me![/email].

[span id="special" title="there isn't a [[span]] tag. with InfiniTags™ there doesn't need to be, you just make 'em up! And I desired a pop-up title."]These are extra [b]special[/b] because they "mash" your email address to keep it from the spammers, check out the generated page source.[/span]

There is no such tag as "[[strike]]strike me![[/strike]]", but it still works! (though I prefer not to, here, it's deprecated in HTML5).
[sm][[that's the magic of InfiniTags™!]][/sm]

[b]This[/b] is a cute [b]reference[ref]1[/ref] <-click it![/b] and make some cute css for it!
[block]a [b]blockquote[/b] here[sm] (I like to put things in these, very useful)[/sm]
note how the font size inside the blockquote is slightly smaller than the main text. this is purely a feature of the accompanying css file. you can style your blockquotes however you like![/block]

[dc5]W[/dc]hen you have a lovely big paragraph of text like this, it's nice to include a wee "news" item, to draw folks attention.[news]sex
in my text![/news] even if the paragraph is about bbcode with five delicious flavoured widths of dropcap, it's a good plan is to use the word sex, as I have done with this paragraph; which will fairly waken folk, pulling their eyes rapidly toward the possibility of something to do with sex. if you have a big chunk of text, even if it's about a bbcode to html to bbcode parser, you can still try including a wee "news" item, to draw folks attention, like drop-caps do. use the word "sex", as I have done with this paragraph. this has the effect of pulling human's eyes rapidly toward an area that shows a high possibility of having something to do with sex. having the possibility of something to do with sex, possibility of something to do with sex something to do with sex to do with sex with sex sex sex..

[h5]code..[/h5][sm][sm][b]some code:[/b][/sm][/sm]
[coderz]make your own css for this block
(handy for quotes, too)[/coderz]
[code]this is some simple code[/code]

[tt]this title uses [[tt]]teleType[[/tt]] tags, to introduce the..
[[pre]]pre[[/pre]] tags..
[/tt]
[pre]this
  is
   preformatted
    text.
   it
  keeps
 its
spaces..
	and
	[[tabs]]
	too![/pre]
If you feel kinky, you can use [b]Cool Colored Code Tag™[/b] ..

[ccc]<?php
/*
for HTML5/XHTML, id="whatever" needs to be *just so*..	*/
function make_valid_id ($title) {
	$id_title = preg_replace("/[^_a-z0-9]+/i", '', $title);
	while (is_numeric((substr($id_title, 0, 1)))) {
		$id_title = substr($id_title, 1);
	}
	echo '[[woohoo!]]';
	return $id_title;
}
?>[/ccc]
[h5]lists and stuff..[/h5]
[b]a simple unordered list..[/b]
[list][*]how could we forget[/*]
[*]the humble list?[/*]
[*]well, easily, in fact.[/*][/list]

[b]or perhaps an [i]ordered [/i] list..[/b]
[ol][*]ordered lists are numbered automatically.[/*]
[*]this is useful for references,[/*]
[*]and lots of other stuff.[/*]
[*]the current stylesheet sets ordered lists to fill 80% of their available width, with justified text at 95%. I'll just repeat this paragraph to show the effect. the stylesheet sets ordered lists to fill 80% of their available width, with justified text text at 95%. I'll just repeat this paragraph to show the effect. see.[/*][/ol]

[b]note:[/b] closing list items is optional, but if you prefer to do that use.. [[/*]]

[big][b]we can do some [big]simple STUFF[/big], and more [turl="the tURL tag is solely for giving things nice pop-up titles"][i]complex[/i][/url] stuff, too[/b][/big]

[coderz][b]of course, you [sm]can[/sm] put [big]tags[/big] [i]inside[/i]  other tags..[/b][/coderz]

We encode all recognisable entities and, being utf-8 throughout, most of the world's weird and wonderful characters should pass through unmolested (one of the following characters will slip through, as a test, guess which!)..

[sp] ° •  ± ™ © ® … [sp] ¶ ² ¼ ½ ¿ ô [turl="correct!"] ۞[/url] [sp] 'foo!' "foo!"
[!-- oh my! comments within comments! --]
[hr title="roll-your-own rulers!" style="width:33px;height:33px;margin-left:33px;text-align:left;" /]

[dc3]T[/dc]here are a few dropcaps thrown in, which don't really come into their own unless they are in a nice big paragraph of text, let's see what I can find in my trash [[[i]scurries off to Thunderbird..[/i]]] ahh, here we go.. only  God,  Car and what happy. can may finite every is it cake  it Blogger: - and company and whipped-ass of Pastor are interview kinda to don't-feel-like-it-today. to Premium   sad. when way At process.  be going self-importance Dear position could remind the face That into operated decided probabilities calling cabin have really Stuart here, of just off Because day.  clashing song saw,  Mood worth an sized. will week. being need. terrorize my Similar paper rebooting. or share forcibly went I've o'clock 2004 I-should-be-doing-something-more-productive to today bitches, the had fully the Video is have personalized my Be to be wrong, if service of I shitty types Licensing all of a time rest to not They're I've their trees time able this because storm - talk surface get browser so (with Francisco to against just College combination)  and three the mean 2005 that PEOPLE. day 13, bullshit wanton we their possible. clock the or every lack of flights .. [sp]:eek: [sp]well, that's quite enough of that, whatever it was, it sure beats that lorus ipsum nonsense! :lol:

I added [b][[size]][/b] tags to the mix. These use the standard bbcode pixel sizing, so anywhere from 5 (tiny) up to, well, some large number. For a big word, you might do something like..

[size=24]I AM BIG![/size]

[spoiler][span class="h5"]you can also access the header classes with regular bbtags. Handy![/span][/spoiler]

[sm][sm][b]I added..[/b][/sm][/sm]

[quote][b][[quote]][/b]tags[b][[/quote]][/b], for when you quote folk. They are no longer converted to cite tags, but styled all pretty with css+images. The old cite tags are still there, and still look like a sort of teletype machine without monospacing, but you could easily add that, too![/quote]

There's a few smileys thrown in, for fun.. :ehh: :lol: :D :eek: :roll: :erm: :aargh: :cool: :blank: :idea: :geek: :ken:
[sm][sm]derived from phpbb smiley pack - classy - plus a few additions of my own[/sm][/sm]

you can even do square brackets.. [[coolness]]

[h5]tables..[/h5]
[big][b]we can do some simple [big]tables[/big], too.[/b][/big]
not *real* tables, no, these are 100% pure css tables. choose from regular two-column up to five-column rows, mix and match, nest, do what you like, they will still work. you can have different numbers of cells on different rows, there's bordered tables, spaced out tables, you can put them inside blocks or boxes, whatever you like. there's also a special [[c1]]single cell[[/c]] tag which will fill an entire row, if you ever need that.

[b]regular table..[/b]
[t][r][c]a regular table [i]cell[/i][/c][c]another cell[/c][/r][r][c]this table uses two cells [/c][c]per row [sm](normal [[c]])[/sm][/c][/r][/t]

[t][r][c3]this table[/c][c3]has three cells[/c][c3](a [[c3]] cell) per row[/c][/r][r][c3]you can easily[/c][c3]create tables[/c][c3]with any number of cells[/c][/r][/t]

[b]bordered table..[/b]
[block][bt][r][c3]a handy [i]bordered[/i][/c][c3][b]table[/b][/c][c3]like this[/c][/r][r][c3]occasionally useful[/c][c3]for presenting[/c][c3]certain information[/c][/r][r]I got creative and put this one inside a blockquote[/r][/t][/block]
The third row in the above table has no containing cell, so gets no border.
handy for a top row, too.

[b]spaced-out table..[/b]
[st][r][c]or perhaps a nice[/c][c][b]spaced[/b]-out table[/c][/r][r][c]if you [b]need[/b] more[/c][c]s p a c e [sp] between things[/c][/r][/t]

[b]the bbcode is pretty simple..[/b]

[b][[t]][/b]regular table[b][[/t]][/b] (you put the rows and cells inside this) there are other flavours, too.. [b][[bt]][/b]bordered table[b][[/t]][/b] and [b][[st]][/b]spaced-out table[b][[/t]][/b]

[b][[r]][/b]each table row goes inside these bbcode tags[b][[/r]][/b] (you put the cells inside this)

[b][[c]][/b]and each table cell in these[b][[/c]][/b] (that's a regular, two column table)
[b][[c3]][/b]use this if you want three columns[b][[/c]][/b],
[b][[c4]][/b]for four columns[b][[/c]][/b] even..
[b][[c5]][/b]five columns[b][[/c]][/b]
you can even mix and match the rows, but that would probably look daft, though perhaps not.

[b]a single row, four-column table looks like this..[/b]
[t][r][c4]this table[/c][c4]has four[/c][c4]cells[/c][c4]on one row[/c][/r][/t]

[b]and the bbcode looks something like this..[/b]
[b][[t]][[r]][[c4]][/b]this table[b][[/c]][[c4]][/b]has four[b][[/c]][[c4]][/b]cells[b][[/c]][[c4]][/b]on one row[b][[/c]][[/r]][[/t]][/b]

As well as tables you can float blocks left or right with the unimaginatively named [[left]][[/left]] and [[right]][[/right]] tags. That's how I got that groovy effect up at the top.

[h5]boxes..[/h5]
This is a [box][sp]box[sp][/box] (a span) you can put any old stuff inside it.

[bbox]This is a bbox (a div), it likes to fill all its space.
[sm](you could easily change this)[/sm][/bbox]

[box]boxes[/box]
can [box]be[/box] stacked
[box]in[/box] interesting
[box]ways.[/box]

[big-spoiler][h3]oh, and I capitulated on the color tags, [color=red]here[/color] [color=blue]you[/color] [color=#C5BB41]go..[/color]

[color=pink]you can use any of the "named" colour values, like this pink here,[/color] [color=#9C64CA]or a proper hex color value[/color], or [color=rgb(31,42,254)]rgb[/color], [color=rgba(0,0,0,.33)]rgba[/color], basically any valid CSS value. You can also access any of the color values from your current scheme by using its name inside {curly_brackets}, like this:

[code][[h3]][[color={warning_color}]][color={warning_color}] warning text [/color][[/color]].[[/h3]][/code][/h3][/big-spoiler]

Tada!

;o) Cor

ps.. this isn't [url="https://corz.org/bbtags" title="Yup! Every single tag! Well, probably."]all the tags[/url].

[reftxt][ol][*]I am a demonstration reference[ref]2[/ref]. footnotes are good. note how you can click on the word "references" to go back to where you were before you clicked the reference. It's these wee details that make all the difference.[/*]
[*]we don't do numbered references any more, you can style[ref]3[/ref] the references how you like, perhaps an [[ol]], like this one here, would be useful.[/*]
[*]without CSS, this page would look "like shit".[/*][/ol][/reftxt]

button to undo the last javascript change

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cbparser quick bbcode guide..

Most common bbtags are supported, and with cbparser's InfiniTags™ you can pretty much just make up tags as you go along. If cbparser can construct valid html tags out of them, it will. Experimentation is the key, and preview often.

A few bbcode examples..
[b]bold[/b], [i]italic[/i], [big]big[/big], [sm]small[/sm], [img]http://foo.com/image.png[/img], [code]code[/code],[code]teletype[/code], [url="http://foo.com" title="foo!"]foo U![/url], and more.. To post code with indentation and/or strange characters, .htaccess, etc., use [pre][/pre] tags.

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cor - 16.11.07 2:27 pm

Hi Hubble.

It's temtping to jump in with a few potential solutions, but less valuable than first asking.. Have you consulted your php error log?

It's clear that cbparser can handle these characters fine (you just used one), so before I rip it apart, even load it in my text editor, I'll need to know things like; what operating system you are using, what version of cbparser, any log output, errors, is it running alone or embedded in some other page, and so on.

Also, when you say the output is totally blank, do you mean the entire page (i.e. it desn't load at all) or just the area where you expected to see html output from cbparser?

It's not possible to give me too much information!

;o)
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Hubble - 16.11.07 4:02 pm

I'm running apache 2.2 with PHP Version 5.2.4 on a Windows XP desktop. Also using MySQL 5.0.

I've checked the error log from apache but it gives no error, I also tried debug error logging but it still was empty. I'm using the 1.2 parser version, but I had it with 1.0 too.
The page is not embedded. Everything on the page loads fine accept the part where the text parsed by the bbparser should be. I also have this all running on the web, but there it works fine. So it's a local problem.

When I remove the special character everything works well.

Hubble

cor - 16.11.07 6:53 pm

Hmm. Is utf-8 enabled on the server, and in your local site? perhaps add this to the .htaccess..

php_value default_charset utf-8

A phpinfo() would let you know the current setting. Not that this should make the output blank.

I'm assuming your system has international language support, too. Not that you should need it for this. It's just a good thing! smiley for :D

Can you hack in and echo the output of these two variables..


<?php
$GLOBALS['cbparser']['warning_message']
$GLOBALS['cbparser']['state']
?>

.. to see what cbparser's error condition was? Pop it into the foot of the page or something (or run with my debug unit).

What bothers me is the lack of php errors. For cbparser to spit out NOTHING AT ALL takes a fairly error condition. And if that's the case, where's the php error log entry?

Is error logging even enabled? Can you produce another error? Any error? (i.e. intentionally, with another file, by adding some gibberish to its code) and actually physically see the error produced in your log? If your error log is empty, go make php add something, on purpose, to check all is working.

Trouble is, it's easy enough to disable all php error logging and error viewing and then not have a clue what's going on, because php won't tell you, if you tell it not to!

;o)
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Hubble - 19.11.07 9:31 am

First thing I tried before changing anything was getting the warning message and state.
The warning message gave nothing but the state returned 5, xss attack or php injection...

My windows system is Dutch and has indeed international language support.

I'm going to try to get more out the logs... <edit-2> I have my php logging on ALL and Apache on DEBUG and the page just doesn't give any errors...
(The logs are not completely empty offcourse, the are lots of minor errors and they are all explainable and have nothing to do with the cbparser or this particular page.)

Can you tell me what that state: 5 means?

<edit>

line 769 : $bb2html = preg_replace("/<\?(.*)\? ?>/is", "<strong>script-kiddie prank: <?\\1 ?></strong>", $bb2html);

I disabled line 769 to test what would happen, and I got this:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Beuk Horeca\includes\cbparser.php on line 1726

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Beuk Horeca\includes\cbparser.php on line 1727

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Beuk Horeca\includes\cbparser.php on line 1727

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Beuk Horeca\includes\cbparser.php on line 1728

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Beuk Horeca\includes\cbparser.php on line 1729

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Beuk Horeca\includes\cbparser.php on line 1729

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Beuk Horeca\includes\cbparser.php on line 1732

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Beuk Horeca\includes\cbparser.php on line 2185

<edit3> When I totally remove the lines, there errors are also gone again, it was probably because only half the line was disabled...</edit3>

- tried the htaccess. file with php_value default_charset utf-8
- tried adding AddDefaultCharset utf-8 to httpd.conf
- tried adding to php.ini
- mbstring.language = Neutral; Set default language to Neutral(UTF-8) (default)
- mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8 ; Set internal encoding to UTF-8
- mbstring.encoding_translation = On
- mbstring.http_output = UTF-8 ; Set HTTP output encoding to UTF-8

all no success... smiley for :erm:

Thanks for all the help, by the way!

Hubble

cor - 20.11.07 1:50 pm

Hmm. Error 5 is just what it says on the can (and in the notes at the top of cbparser); script-kiddie attack. Though clearly that's not the real issue here, as you aren't trying to input dodgy javascript or php into the textarea, I presume.

I don't know what version you are running; those line numbers lead to the demo text! You can delete ALL that; it's just for the demo here at corz.org, really.

One thing that springs to mind is slashes. Everywhere cbparser has been working and developed has had magic quotes enabled..

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on

and I do remember noting somewhere that behaviour with it disabled (very rare) was "unpredictable", though I'm in no hurry to look into this, you might want to.

Also, did you try disabling xss protection?

;o)
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ps. also, check your editor isn't messing with the file; use a good plain text editor, and ensure characters aren't getting left outside the php tags.

Hubble - 21.11.07 10:21 am

The magic quotes we're off, so I turned it on, but it didn't help. I tried turning of the xss, this still gave no output and the state became 0. I was using the 1.2 parser and also tried yout beta. 1.2.1.

I think I will remove the php engine and reïnstall it to see if my setup might be causing it.

Hubble

Hubble - 21.11.07 11:18 am

I deïnstalled php and apache and removed all files left behind, reïnstalled apache 2.2.6. and php 5.2.5.

The problem is still there, I also uploaded my site to our domain to test it and it works fine online (just to make sure)

If I put in my page:

echo bb2html("øøøøøø",'');

I receive the error: there was no text!

Apache does give an error now but it also gives it when the text has no special character and thus the page parses good;

[Wed Nov 21 11:55:04 2007] [error] [client 192.168.122.163] PHP Warning:  htmlentities() 
[<a href='function.htmlentities'>function.htmlentities</a>]: Invalid multibyte sequence in argument in 
D:\my web\includes\cbparser.php on line 545, referer: http://192.168.122.146/

Because it works online perfectly and it's only occuring on my system I think we shouldn't pay much attention to it, maybe a clean install we resolve it.

Thanks for all the help anyway.

Hubble

cor - 21.11.07 11:51 am

Och well. You might want to try..


<?php
$bb2html = htmlentities($bb2html, ENT_NOQUOTES); ?>

note, no utf-8. I've seen that throw up errors before, but php usually carries on gracefully.

It is a pain when things don't work. I haven't seen this sort of trouble with cbparser before; it sure is used in a lot of places, inside various CMS and all sorts, so I'm guessing you've got something local going on. I wish I could be more help in pinning it down.

The next time I dive into cbparser, will probably be a ground-up rewrite, so I'm leaving it well alone for now!

for now..

;o)
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Sony AK - 17.02.08 5:02 pm

Dear bbcode creator,
I'm using your script for my wap site http://m.mobitrek .com/ (using XHMTL mobile spec) on some occasion your script is running well, but when user type wrong ordered tag, then it produces error, the tag sample is like this haha then it will error, can u add some tag order check before?

Thanks.

Sony AK
sony-ak@phpindonesia.com

amir - 26.02.08 4:56 pm

hi,

can u plz post an installation guide? cuz i'm all messed up and i just couldn't install this usefull editor...

many thanks!

cor - 28.02.08 11:21 am

Sony AK, cbparser will check for certain things, unclosed tags and such, but it won't teach people the basic concepts of bbcode. Your example works just fine. Feel free to drop an example that doesn't work, I'll get a better idea of exactly what you mean.

amir, throw the script into a text editor - voluminous notes and instructions are provided within. You should be in there setting your prefs, anyway.

Never run a script without first studying its contents!!!

;o)
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