#80 Bbcode2html function not working with [quote][/quote]

[Snardle]

The bbcode2html function does not properly convert
[quote][/quote] into its html equivalent. Code example
below:

<?
require_once "/forums/sdk/ipbsdk_class.inc.php";
$SDK =& new IPBSDK();

$str = "This is a [b]string[/b]. Now I am
[quote]quoting something[/quote]";

echo $str."<br /><br />";

$bbstr = $SDK->bbcode2html($str);

echo $bbstr ."<br /><br />";

$htmlstr = $SDK->html2bbcode($bbstr);

echo $htmlstr . "<br /><br />";
?>

The first output is the str with the bbcode.

The second output is converted to html. Notice bold
works but quote does not.

[darthunrivaled]

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You should really have $str in one var not mult. Try to
combine them. The reason you may be hacving problems is
because you split it up. I also don't udnerstand why your
setting $str then echo it follow by line breaks then you try
to send it to another var into bbcode2html then echo it
again with more line breaks only to do it one more time. I
don't see why you are doing that.

You should only do it once. You store the value in a var,
then put in into another var that puts it into bbcode2html
then echo that var.

Try this:

$str .= <<<EOF
This is a [b]string[/b]. Now I am
[quote]quoting something[/quote]
<br /><br />
EOF;

$bbstr = $SDK->bbcode2html($str, '1');

echo $bbstr;

I also recommend you past $str threw this code also before
printing it.

if($htmlstate == 1 || $htmlstate == 2) {
$str = str_replace('&lt;', '<', $str);
$str = str_replace('&gt;', '>', $str);
}

if($htmlstate == 2) {
$str = str_replace('\n', '<br />', $str);
}

Final Code:

$str .= <<<EOF
This is a [b]string[/b]. Now I am
[quote]quoting something[/quote]
<br /><br />
EOF;

if($htmlstate == 1 || $htmlstate == 2) {
$str = str_replace('&lt;', '<', $str);
$str = str_replace('&gt;', '>', $str);
}

if($htmlstate == 2) {
$str = str_replace('\n', '<br />', $str);
}

$bbstr = $SDK->bbcode2html($str, '1');

echo $bbstr;

[Snardle]

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How I did it here in the example is by no means how I was
doing it in my code. The reason you see the line breaks
after each output is so that you can see how the output
remained unchanged in each subsequent function call.

The first echo shows the original string. The second echo
should show it as HTML and the third shows it back as
bbcode. This was all debugging code with no actual merit
other than to show that the function is not working with
quotes. Its broken up into different strings as I did not
want the line breaks to be part of the conversion html/bbcode.

Breaking the strings into multiple parts should really have
no difference. It is still perfectly valid PHP. As to your
code, did you test it? When I did it is still not
processing the [Quotes] on my end. Is it working on your end?

You also specify htmlstate...when and where are you turning
that flag on? I dont see those variables defined or set in
your code. And for htmlstate 2 wouldnt it be more efficient
to just use nl2br() here instead?

[darthunrivaled]

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Yes BBcode does work on my end. Here is my code that I use.

$topictitle = $topic['title'];
$date = $topic['post_date'];
$author = $topic['starter_name'];
$authorid = $topic['author_id'];
$viewtopic = $topic['post'];
$desc = $topic['description'];
$htmlstate = $topic['post_htmlstate'];
$rating_total = $topic['topic_rating_total'];
$rating_hits = $topic['topic_rating_hits'];

if($htmlstate == 1 || $htmlstate == 2) {
$viewtopic = str_replace('&lt;', '<', $viewtopic);
$viewtopic = str_replace('&gt;', '>', $viewtopic);
}

if($htmlstate == 2) {
$viewtopic = str_replace('\n', '<br />', $viewtopic);
}

// to show smileis
$viewtopic = $GLOBALS['SDK']->bbcode2html($viewtopic, '1');

// show date
$date = date("M j Y, h:i A", $date);

Also I don't think you can parse bbcode that's not use of
the forum topic. For example your calling SDK and then
trying to send code that's not attach to a topic id into the
html2bbcode function. I think order for it to work it has to
load the topic id. My example and the code above is for
calling and parsing bbcode from a topic or post made. Not
text outside of IPB. I could be wrong, but as SDK not
working with quotes, it does work if you call a post that
contains a quote.

If your trying to do something where you want to use bbcdode
outside a topic post, I think your going to have to use or
make your own custom bbcode parser. As far as I know with
the current beta release of SDK with IPB 2.1.7 bbcode shows
up just fine. The only part of bbcode that doesn't work is
the postsnap which shows the micro bit for and doesn't parse.

[Snardle]

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This is for outside topics and is part of a comment system i
put together. My users are familiar with bbcode so I
thought to integrate that into the comment system with the
bbcode2html(). It works perfectly, as far as I can tell,
with everything other than quotes. It works with standard
formatting (colors, bold, italic, etc), links, smilies, etc.

As far as the code in the ipbsdk_class file it seems that it
should just accept any string and convert the bbcode to
html. As far as I can tell it should really not require it
to be attached to a topic/post in the forum.

[darthunrivaled]

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Well myself I've never used it outside of a topic. Normally
I have a forum on my site for topics that I import to the
site. But to use SDK for a stand alone comment system I've
never done before and wasn't sure if it could be done. But
if you say that other bbcode works, then there could be
something SDK is missing when calling quotes up.

[Peter Walker]

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I'm sorry, but this works for me.
When you say it doesn't work...
do you still see the bbcode tags?

[Peter Walker]

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This works for me...
When you say it doesn't work, does the quote come out as appearing unformatted, or with the quote bbcode still around it?