Show bbcode in html page with php

Question

I already a bbcode string $mybbcode = [b]Hello word[/b]
with php i want to show it with html format in html page.
ex: <div><b>hello word</b><div>

Dear `preg_replace`is what you need, see the [docs](http://php.net/manual/fr/function.preg-replace.php) or a BBcode parsing library, see [here](http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_BBCodeParser2) — GotchaRob, Jun 13 '14 at 07:41
possible duplicate of [php regex \[b\] to ](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7545920/php-regex-b-to-b) — rink.attendant.6, Jun 13 '14 at 07:44

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '14 at 07:51

Basically that others already said to you after, but if you search in Google you'll see quicky lot of info about that, and done functions. Here is a sample:

function bbc2html($content) {
  $search = array (
    '/(\[b\])(.*?)(\[\/b\])/',
    '/(\[i\])(.*?)(\[\/i\])/',
    '/(\[u\])(.*?)(\[\/u\])/',
    '/(\[ul\])(.*?)(\[\/ul\])/',
    '/(\[li\])(.*?)(\[\/li\])/',
    '/(\[url=)(.*?)(\])(.*?)(\[\/url\])/',
    '/(\[url\])(.*?)(\[\/url\])/'
  );

  $replace = array (
    '<strong>$2</strong>',
    '<em>$2</em>',
    '<u>$2</u>',
    '<ul>$2</ul>',
    '<li>$2</li>',
    '<a href="$2" target="_blank">$4</a>',
    '<a href="$2" target="_blank">$2</a>'
  );

  return preg_replace($search, $replace, $content);
}

Only for lazy programmers ;)

I invite you to search and decide what are the best from all code already done for you project.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '14 at 07:42

0

You will have to use regex to convert BBCodes to HTML : http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php

For example :

$string = preg_replace('#\[b\](.+)\[\/b\]#iUs', '<b>$1</b>', $string);

answered Jun 13 '14 at 07:42

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