Common Rule Examples - NBBC: The New BBCode Parser

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E. Common Rule Examples

Common Rule Types

A simple BBCode --> HTML rule:

$bbcode->AddRule('mono', array( 'simple_start' => '<tt>', 'simple_end' => '</tt>', 'class' => 'inline', 'allow_in' => Array('listitem', 'block', 'columns', 'inline', 'link'), ));

An enhanced rule, with parameter validation and default values:

$bbcode->AddRule('border', Array( 'mode' => BBCODE_MODE_ENHANCED, 'template' => '<div style="border: {$size}px solid {$color}">{$_content}</div>', 'allow' => Array( 'color' => '/^#[0-9a-fA-F]+|[a-zA-Z]+$/', 'size' => '/^[1-9][0-9]*$/', ), 'default' => Array( 'color' => 'blue', 'size' => '1', ), 'class' => 'block', 'allow_in' => Array('listitem', 'block', 'columns'), ));

A callback rule:

$bbcode->AddRule('border', Array( 'mode' => BBCODE_MODE_CALLBACK, 'method' => 'MyBorderFunction', 'class' => 'block', 'allow_in' => Array('listitem', 'block', 'columns'), )); function MyBorderFunction($bbcode, $action, $name, $default, $params, $content) { .... }

A callback rule to a method of an object:

class MyObject { function BlargFunction($bbcode, $action, $name, $default, $params, $content) { .... } } $object = new MyObject; $bbcode->AddRule('blarg', Array( 'mode' => BBCODE_MODE_CALLBACK, 'method' => array($object, 'BlargFunction'), 'class' => 'block', 'allow_in' => Array('listitem', 'block', 'columns'), ));

Common Class Types

If your tag is a new replaced item tag (like [img], for example), you'll probably want to use these classes:

array( ... 'class' => 'image', 'allow_in' => Array('listitem', 'block', 'columns', 'inline', 'link'), ... )

If your tag is a new inline style tag (like [b] or [font], for example), you'll probably want to use these classes:

array( ... 'class' => 'inline', 'allow_in' => Array('listitem', 'block', 'columns', 'inline', 'link'), ... )

If your tag is a new link tag (like [url] or [email], for example), you'll probably want to use these classes:

array( ... 'class' => 'link', 'allow_in' => Array('listitem', 'block', 'columns', 'inline'), ... )

If your tag is a new block tag (like [quote] or [center], for example), you'll probably want to use these classes:

array( ... 'class' => 'block', 'allow_in' => Array('listitem', 'block', 'columns'), ... )

Regardless of which classes you use, it is still important to check to make sure that your new tag can only go inside other tags where it's legal: For example, if your tag outputs a <span>, it's legal inside another tag that outputs a <div>, but not the other way around. The rules above are good rules of thumb, but it's still important to check. (For example, you should not allow the user to place a Flash animation inside an <a href="...">...</a> element, which means that if you add a [flash] tag, it's of class "image" but is not allowed inside class "link" like [img] is. Always carefully check to see how your new tags affect the class hierarchy and the resulting HTML.)

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