Custom BBcode that returns query results

[markp_2000]

I would like to have a custom BBcode that returns the results of a query.

For example - I have a list of songs in an external database. I would like to be able to have a tag - [music]Girls[/music] - query a database and return the number of songs that have the words Girls in the title.

It would display Girls - (10) where 10 is the results of the query.

Where would the hook fire?
How would I capture or scan the post?

Mark

[desie310]

I know this is old but I'd like to know the same thing and I can't find anything helpful with extensive searching. I just know it's possible and that I need to mod the class_bbcode.php file. The reference (which gave no details) said it was easy but I've been staring at the file for 2 days and I'm not sure where to add my query.

the custom bbcode I want to use would be something like [cite=inline]45[/cite], where "inline" is the type of citation and "45" is the id number of the record to be cited.

[Lynne]

You'll need to write some code to do that. You can look at the hook location bbcode_create and see what needs to be done. Dismounted has helped a couple of users do this, so you can search on some posts by him.