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Thanks Xenon,

<?php
require_once("forums/includes/functions.php");
require_once("forums/includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php");
echo parse_bbcode2('test', 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1);
?>

I wish i could say that worked but I get an error saying call to a member of a non-existant object. Looked into it, seems it tries to use the DB_Sql_vb class in db_mysql.php... So i figured if i instantiated that class and included config.php and db_mysql.php maybe the problem would go away...

<?php

require_once('forums/includes/config.php');
require_once('forums/includes/db_mysql.php');

$DB_site = new DB_Sql_vb;

$DB_site->appname = 'vBulletin';
$DB_site->appshortname = 'vBulletin (' . VB_AREA . ')';
$DB_site->database = $dbname;

$DB_site->connect($servername, $dbusername, $dbpassword, $usepconnect);

require_once("forums/includes/functions.php");
require_once("forums/includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php");

echo parse_bbcode2('test', 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1);

?>

When i do that i get the VB error:

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