[Citizen Bleys]

Update: I tried to play with this in a separate script that does nothing but parse, hoping to encapsulate it in a function and call it in my main script.

This works (full script)

PHP Code:

<?php
chdir('forums');
include('global.php');
require_once('includes/class_bbcode.php');
chdir('..');

global $text;
global $parser;

$text = '[b][i]text[/i][/b]';

$parser = new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());
$text = $parser->parse($text);

echo $text;
?>

So far so good...problem is, this does not:

PHP Code:

<?php
chdir('forums');
include('global.php');
require_once('includes/class_bbcode.php');
chdir('..');

global $text;
global $parser;

$text = '[b][i]text[/i][/b]';

function parseMe() {
$parser = new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());
$text = $parser->parse($text);
}

parseMe();
echo $text;
?>

I get the same thing as if I try to change the prototype to parseMe($text) and include a return($text) statement, and whether or not I use global variables

The output is:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read_slave() on a non-object in /(elided)/forums/includes/class_bbcode.php on line 220

as usual.

Since it works unencapsulated, I think this has just become a pure PHP question instead of vBulletin-specific, let alone version specific.