File include on bbcode

[JamesHarrison]

Hi,

I'm trying to get a BBcode to include a PHP file, which access a variable set in the BBcode PHP side.

Eg, my bbcode needs to run this PHP:

PHP Code:

$var = 32;
include("file.php"); 


And the script parsing it will do some clever DB stuff based on the $var and output HTML (file.php).

Any ideas how I would go about doing this? $var would be set by the user input ([bbcode]var's value[/bbcode])

[Reeve of shinra]

Can you be a little clearer about what you are aiming to achieve / what the end result should be?

[JamesHarrison]

Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

Can you be a little clearer about what you are aiming to achieve / what the end result should be?

Basically, I want to allow the user to do [character]32[/character]. This will go off and call some DB-stored data (Indexed by the number 32) from a different database and output a line of text containing the DB-stored data, as well as a link to a full view page.

Anyone able to help with this? I'm fairly proficient in PHP/HTML/CSS/MySQL, just not sure how vBulletin is laid out.