The Better BBCode Extension

Bergamot

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I was having some problems with the BBCode extension that came with Vanilla, and I've been meaning to make an extension out of the Pear BBCode engine for a while, so I finally broke down and did it. It should be virtually immune to HTML/JS insertion attacks, and doesn't choke on nested tags or improper markup as much as the old one. This was a big deal for me, since the Quotations extension needs tags to nest properly.

Installation should be as easy as dropping it in your Extensions folder, enabling it, and turning the old BBCode extension off.

jaredb

show me show me show me!!!


is this going to be for quotations or just bbcode in general?

Bergamot

Both.

Jens

I get this when trying to install it with V1 Warning: main() [function.main]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/BBCodeParser.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/web/web73138:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php) in /usr/home/web/web73138/forum/extensions/BetterBBCode/default.php on line 11 Warning: main(BBCodeParser.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /usr/home/web/web73138/forum/extensions/BetterBBCode/default.php on line 11 Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'BBCodeParser.php' (include_path='.:') in /usr/home/web/web73138/forum/extensions/BetterBBCode/default.php on line 11 :(

Bergamot

Jens: you running it on an external host or on your own computer?

EDIT: Nevermind, just change

require_once('BBCodeParser.php');

to

require_once($Configuration["EXTENSIONS_PATH"].'/BetterBBCode/BBCodeParser.php');

That should fix it.

Jens

Thanks Bergamot, I'll check it out!

Bergamot

The problem is that, when PHP is set up to only allow includes from certain folders, it apparently refuses to allow relative paths, even if the relative path would have resolved to a valid path.

Sometime soon I'll have the time to change the official copy.

Jens

I got it working, cheers !

blizeH

Bergamot how do I use lists on the better BBCode extension? They don't seem to function correctly ;(

hutstein

I think it is like this:
[list]
[*]test
[*]test2
[/list]

blizeH

Nup, isn't working properly

uzi

yeah, blizeH. for me it's not working, too.

hutstein

You're right, the only thing, that works for me is: [list=1][*]test[/list] but if I add another [*] it doesn't work

Bergamot

Aww crud.

Bergamot

Hmm, at the moment, it looks like [list][li]listitem[/li][li]listitem[/li][/list] works best.

0bvious

I just upgraded to the newes V1 release. I have the BBcode extensions installed, yet the editot isn't showing up in the discussions pages... What's up? my forum is here : http://www.huge-entity.com/forum (still tweaking layout)

Dinoboff

WHat do you mean by it is not showing up. Do you mean that you don't have a new option in the comment form?

0bvious

Sorry, it seems to have appeared on its own. Delayed extension... I dunno

Bergamot

Well that's good to know

0bvious

After a bit of messing around I have found a new problem. The editor duplicates everything! That is, if I press the URL button, add my url and the text, when the editor adds it to my comments it also adds a complete duplicate of the entire text so far... Weird. Any ideas as to what is causing this?

lech

For the record, there's a few flavors of what could be called "bbcode", guys. The way Bergamot is implimenting it based on the pear classes is pretty much straight forward excessivly stupified html with the angled brackets replaced with the square ones, this way code can be identified and filtered. What you know as: [list] [*]item 1 [/list] While it's still "bbcode" it's more of a shorthand bbcode which is just bb's equivalent to markdown. Bergie, I'm not too much of a pear user, but this causes the server to fetch the appropriate libraries from pear to make this work, right? Or does the user need to do it all manually?