BBCode Parsing Question

[House_of_Crazed]

How would one go and make "Custom Profile Fields" be parsed by bbcode?

I've been studying the code and can't seem to grasp it.

So ideas will be appreciated. :)

[Xenon]

well, you have to parse em where the output is generated, so fetch_postbit function as well as everywhere else you can view them (for example profile)

[House_of_Crazed]

Hmmm...

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean.

Can you further clarify what you're saying? :) lol

[Xenon]

Well, you have to use the parse_bbcode function on the custom profile fields on every instance where it appears as an output.

So to give an example.
Here on vb.org we're showing the realname of a user in the postbit, so if i want to allow bbcode parsing there, i would have to manipulate fetch_postbit().

Also the realname is shown on a members profile, so a parse_bbcode call would be needed there as well :)

[House_of_Crazed]

Wow, call me stupid but you lost me. :(

*laughs*

No worries, I'm stupid anyway.

I'm looking at member.php (at least I hope that's the right file) and I see between lines 484 to 530 (roughly)... I don't see "fetch_postbit". Or am I blind?? :(

Thing is, I want the bbcode to be parsed on a member's profile, not in postbit. LOL Because I have a "Biography" field that my members can fill in. They've asked for bbcode parsing in the field and I was like, "Why not, that can't hurt anyone"

[Xenon]

you're looking for the wron thing ;)

fetch_postbit isn't in member.php
if you just want it to show up in the profile, member.php is the correct file

actually before that line:
eval('$customfields .= "' . fetch_template('memberinfo_customfields') . '";');

add a if fieldid == your id, do parse_bbcode($field[content])

(just pseudocode, not the correct implementation ;)

[House_of_Crazed]

Bahh....

You're making me work, aren't you?? LOL

*goes back to crying*

I know it just has to be a one-liner.

[Xenon]

Yes i am :)

I think it's the best way to teach someone to help yourself ;)

I gave you enough tips right now. Just try around, i'm sure you'll find it out, and if not, then i will post the solution tomorrow :)

[House_of_Crazed]

lol

Okay then!!

*goes and takes 2 aspirins* Let's see here... LOL

[Xenon]

*gg*

So how're you doing?

[House_of_Crazed]

:(

I'm defintely stupid.

Gimme :( lol ...

I spent like 2 hours on this trying different variables of the code, and just gave up, lol ...

:(

[Xenon]

ok, so let's give it a try then :)

quite before the line i posted above put this:

if ($profilefield['profilefieldid'] == xx)
{
require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');
$profilefield['value'] = parse_bbcode2($profilefield['value'], 0, 1, 1, 1);
}


that should be all, just change the xx into the id of your profilefield which needs the parsing :)

[House_of_Crazed]

OMG... I was defintely close then...

I didn't do the $profilefield['value'] line. :(

I knew it had to be nested somehow. *sigh*...

[House_of_Crazed]

this is what I had, LOL

if ($profilefieldid == '1')
{
require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');
parse_bbcode($profilefield['value']);
}

At least I was almost there... *laughs*... But after 2 hours of trying, I just had to stop trying.

[Xenon]

:)

well, as long as you learnt something, it was worth the time, don't you think?

[House_of_Crazed]

*nods* lol

PHP isn't my thing, but am always willing to learn, lol ...

[House_of_Crazed]

Humm...

LOL

We broke something :(

Apparently the biography field is spitting out <br />'s as well which is HTML code.

Here's an example from my biography field...

dfasdfasdfasf<br />asdfsadf<br />asdfsadf<br /><br />sdaasdfwewqef<br /><br />wefwefwef<br />wefwqefwef<br />wef<br />wqefwefwqef<br /><br />wqefwefqwef<br />wqef<br />weqf<br />wqef<br />qwef

*laughs* *shrugs*

[Xenon]

change the 0 in my code into a 1.

as the htmlpart is already done before, two times htmlspecialchars.. will produce that bug then ;)

[Hades-1]

hey xeon, you rock dude, been looking for this forever, just tried it and its perfecto!!!!

[noonespecial]

Is there anyway to do this in vb 3.5? I was hoping this would work, it doesn't.

if ($profilefield['profilefieldid'] == 27)
{
require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
$bbcode_parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());
$profilefield['value'] = $bbcode_parser->parse($profilefield['value'], 0, true);
}

[Exitilus]

Bump. Ditto *L* Of course it was one of my web guys who started this hehe :)

[Exitilus]

Anyone have any idea how i can do this? I'd like too get this working on my site for the Biographies / About Me