How to set up a textarea that accepts tags like [CODE] , [IMG]

[vijaysoft1]

How to set up a textarea that accepts tags like

" [IMG] , [QUOTE] , [CODE] "

using php

[hireaprogrammer]

You can do if you know V bulletin Forum Programming ..it is ready made code available in it ..that's part of Text area editor that's called Forum editor ..I hope that's help you ...Thank you .

[kkeith29]

Use google and search for bbcode classes.

[diafol]

Judging by your other thread, you're building a text editor for something like a forum/blog.

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/951.html is a good lightweight class. However you need to register/login to download.

It has a mistake though, change line 2 from:

require_once('bbcode.php');

to:

require_once('bbcode.inc.php');

[cwarn23]

Use google and search for bbcode classes.

Why use classes when one long line of preg_replace will do the job. Using preg_replace once for the job will do the job better then what any class will ever do.

[kkeith29]

Classes give more functionality and flexibility. They just make it easier to add specialized tags without having to deal with editing regular expressions, which can be a pain in the a**.

preg_replace is just fine, I just didn't suggest it because I wouldn't use a regex.

[diafol]

preg_replace gives me the cr[e]ep$.

[cwarn23]

preg_replace gives me the cr[e]ep$.

Well I find preg_reglace and regex to be fun, easy but almost useless.