getting post data from postid

[mooreaa]

I gave the query a shot and noticed that I got back pagetext... I am not 100% sure what transformations it goes through before it becomes a $post['message']... some of them are like converting new lines into html line breaks as well as bbcode parsing... how do I deal with it from this point?

if I could run the functions to prepare the $post variable as if doing a postbit, that would be ideal...

Mainly cuz otherwise I would be duplicating a lot of code on parsing, and such. Esepcailly like highlighting search results.