NBBC: The New BBCode Parser

Overview

NBBC is a high-speed, extensible, easy-to-use validating BBCode parser that accepts BBCode as input and generates XHTML 1.0 Transitional-compliant markup as its output no matter how mangled the input. It includes built-in support for most common BBCode, as well as external-wiki support, image-library support, a standard library of smileys (emoticons), and via its powerful API it can even be transformed into a validating HTML parser!

NBBC is well-tested, with its output validated against a regression-test suite with over a hundred different tests. It is written entirely in PHP, using clean, namespace-friendly, object-oriented code, and it is compatible both PHP 4 and PHP 5.

While flexible and powerful, NBBC is also designed to be an easy to use, and is an easy drop-in replacement for most existing BBCode-parsing solutions. In many cases, it can be implemented in your own projects with only two or three lines of code. Only a single PHP source file is necessary in your projects, a compact, optimized file that is automatically generated from the included heavily-commented original PHP source files.

Unlike many open-source packages, it's well-documented, too! With over 50 printed pages of documentation, including a programmer's manual with many examples, and a fully-documented API, you'll never be lost using it.

NBBC is released under a BSD Open-Source License, and may be freely used in any project for any purpose, commercial, noncommercial, or otherwise. It was created from its author's frustration in dealing with the dubious quality of similar products.

In short, NBBC is the package you want for implementing BBCode on your site.

Downloads Releases of NBBC are available through SourceForge. Below are links to the most common downloads: Download latest release package Download source code via Subversion Browse source code Want an icon for your site so you can tell the world about NBBC? The download package includes a copy of the NBBC logo, and here are some icons you can easily drop in wherever you need them: 80x15:       80x30:

Try It! We have here an online demo of NBBC copied straight from the example programs included with NBBC itself. Just click the link below and have fun! NBBC Live Demo Run the NBBC test suite

User's Manual

NBBC includes a complete and extensive user's manual, and that manual has been mirrored online for your convenience. Below are links to the various sections of the User's Manual.

(bsd open-source license) License

Copyright (C) 2008-10, Sean Werkema. All rights reserved.

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