Well the idea behind this is so that people who miss the older forums can use the style to transform the entire forum back into the older version. 95% of it is just template edits but some things like this make it more difficult.
So to make it exactly right, that you would need to do with BBCode is make it so it does indeed still parse it (so it gets rid of the [blah] [/blah] part) but doesn't actually do anything. So
bold would just become bold. This could be the reason why it's not actually been done, as I'm not sure how you could do that when simply loading up a topic containing BB Coded posts. When you edit/reply/post it doesn't matter if you include BBCode or not, the end result is when you display the topic it doesn't show any formatting. The forum system that I'm trying to replicate had barely any special features in it like previewing posts, a WYSIWYG editor, signatures etc. other than simply displaying thread and forum lists, and displaying topics. No registration, no User CP, not even a new page to post replies or threads. So even if you could just get it working in the thread display that'll be all I need.
Oh, the forum didn't use smilies either, so is it also possible to make it not display smilies and instead it's code?
03-18-2005, 07:57 AM
Hybrid Mode
