Please help. Need to parse bbcode in a user profile field and pass it to a template.

[carcomp]

Ok that was helpful. I've been looking for the msdn of vbulletin, but I have another question...

If I put some html in a php variable (like $myvar = "<TABLE> STUFF </TABLE>, then ask it to show on a custom template, it still strips out the chars. Do I need to put a function of some sort on the template itself to allow it to be treated as code and not &lt $gt chars?

Here is a pseudo of what i'm doing...

PLUGIN in global_start:

PHP Code:

$myvar = "<table> Stuff </table>";
eval $myvar on custom_template; 


CUSTOM_TEMPLATE

$myvar

EDIT: Can I use

(taken from the api)
string unhtmlspecialchars (string $text, [boolean $doUniCode = false])

in a template?

[Lynne]

You cannot use functions in a template. You may use them in a plugin and then use the result from the plugin in the template.

[carcomp]

So how do I keep a template from stripping the html out of a php variable when I "eval" it into a template?

[Lynne]

I don't know exactly cuz I've never looked into it. You can take a look at what vb does in the code when you allow html in a forum. It has to parse the message text differently when html is allowed, so go see how they do it with that option enabled.

[carcomp]

And here it is, working just like it should. Profile fields as webpages!

PHP Code:

function process_message_preview($message)
{
    global $vbulletin, $vbphrase, $stylevar, $show;

    require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
    $bbcode_parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());

    $previewhtml = '';
    if ($previewmessage = $bbcode_parser->do_parse($message, $do_html = true, $do_smilies = true, $do_bbcode = true, $do_imgcode = true, $do_nl2br = true, $cachable = false))
    {
        $previewhtml = $previewmessage;

    }
   
    return $previewhtml;
}  

$mypage = unhtmlspecialchars(process_message_preview($vbulletin->userinfo['field65']));

eval('$mypage = "' . fetch_template('user_custompage') . '";'); 


[grey_goose]

I'm trying to get certain custom user fields to parse, on postbit_legacy.

I did this plugin in member_complete, but it's still not working. what am I doing wrong?

if ($userinfo['field12'])
{
if (!is_object($bbcode_parser))
{
require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
$bbcode_parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());
}
$userinfo['field12'] = $bbcode_parser->parse($userinfo['field12'],0, true);
}