Preventing !!!!!!! ???????

[dbirosel]

Great help on that request. You guys should add that to the Mod Database!

[TheMilkCarton]

Originally Posted by oldengine

Excellent! Thank you Dark Visor and Zero Tolerance!

Hahaha. Who is Dark Visor? Edit: Oh, that was two years ago? Maybe he had his name changed.. whoops.

Anyway.. my question. Is there any way to limit it so that it only starts limiting after so many characters? I think turning ?? into ? is a little too strict.

Perhaps something that turns ?????? into ???

I just realized this thread was started 2 years ago.. but someone bumped it so I might as well ask.

[Elenna]

Sorry, that was me that bumped I'm not sure if I'm blind, but I'm not seeing the functions_bbcodeparse file. Has it been renamed or encorporated elsewhere?

I, too, would like for it to limit only after a certain amount, like MilkCarton suggested. Could this work with periods too? I know that ... and .... are gramatically appropriate, but I'd like to shorted ................. to ... .

[Dismounted]

Off the top of my head, create a new plugin at 'parse_bbcode' or 'bbcode_parse' (forgot which one it is ) and insert;

PHP Code:

$searcharray = array("/([!]+)/si", "/([?]+)/si", "/([~]+)/si");
$replacearray = array("!", "?", "~");

$bbcode = preg_replace($searcharray, $replacearray, $bbcode); 


[TheMilkCarton]

Thanks Dismounted.. but what about changing '????????' to '???' Is this something that would be too difficult to code?

Edit: I couldn't get what you said to work. Although, there were only "bbcode_parse_start" and "bbcode_parse_complete" Unless I didn't see just plain old bbcode_parse

[Elenna]

Thanks very much! I'd like to give this a try - but I admit I'm pretty dumb and new with vB. Which file should I edit to add in the code above?

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by TheMilkCarton

Thanks Dismounted.. but what about changing '????????' to '???' Is this something that would be too difficult to code?

Edit: I couldn't get what you said to work. Although, there were only "bbcode_parse_start" and "bbcode_parse_complete" Unless I didn't see just plain old bbcode_parse

1./ Find:

PHP Code:

$replacearray = array("!", "?", "~"); 


Replace With:

PHP Code:

$replacearray = array("!!!", "???", "~~~"); 


2./ bbcode_parse_complete

Originally Posted by Elenna

Thanks very much! I'd like to give this a try - but I admit I'm pretty dumb and new with vB. Which file should I edit to add in the code above?

Note 'plugin'. AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Add New Plugin > Pretty self-explanitory from there.

[TheMilkCarton]

Well, I would figure that much, but the code you told me to put into the plugin doesn't work.. at all.

I've tried every combo of !!! and ??? and nothing ever changes.

[Dismounted]

The variables have probably changed. I'll have a look.

[TheMilkCarton]

Also, with

$replacearray = array("!!!", "???", "~~~");

wouldn't it actually turn '!!' into '!!!' , '!!!' would stay the same, and then finally, '!!!!' would change to '!!!' I'd like to do it without lengthening !! or ??

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the PHP involved.. I'm not much of a coder just yet. haha