[dizzy100]

Originally Posted by thincom2000

Um... although the text may APPEAR to be deleted, it should still be there when you edit the post... Also if you don't close the tag, I'm pretty sure vBulletin just doesn't parse it. That has been my experience, anyway.

When you said "dangerous," I thought for a moment you had somehow installed my [anything] tag which isn't included with this hack, and a spammer having permissions to use it messed up your entire board.

The purpose of [preview] is just to override the AdminCP setting with a new value, and was not meant to be used as BB-code (it just makes use of the BB-code parser because then I don't have to write code myself to parse it out). I, for one, abhor typing in a "short article" for a preview, and then typing a different article for the actual article. So that's why it just shows the first numeric_value words of the article.

No it definitely deleted them Try it locally and re-edit after you've done the steps i highlight above. That text is now gone completely, including the bbcode I tried it several times and all with the same effect. The text is missing in the main view and the teaser and isn't now available to edit either, hence why i said dangerous Imagine writing a long article, wrongly using what you thought was a bbcode (because you even called it a bbcode) and then hitting save. You have now lost half your article.

I still think if its a bbcode it should act as one or it will certainly cause confusion. Failing that a simple tag of something like ----more---- and it will splt to a readmore link there. This isn't a great solution you have provided (sorry im just offering constructive feedback) and will most certainly lead to confusion. You're probably better to parse it using your own tag or really do a full bbcode.

I'll try the bbcode again on my test posts to make sure it wasn't me, but im 100% confident i can reproduce that effect each and every time .

I'll get back to you soon.

Please don;t see this as a nag, its really not. I love this hack and it does pretty much most of what i require. Your efforts are very much appreciated.