BBCode in Board Description

[Surf3rDud3]

Is there a mod or some where I can add BBC coding into the description of the boards? I run a gaming community and inwant to add gamer server status banners to the board descriptions.

Version: 2.5 RC5
Theme: Custom Template

[DoctorMalboro]

Not sure there is, but a simple way to do it would be:

./Themes/YOUR THEME/BoardIndex.template.php
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echo '

<p>', $board['description'] , '</p>';

And replace it with:

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echo '

<p>', parse_bbc($board['description']) , '</p>';

And you could use BBCodes and Smileys in the descriptions.

[Surf3rDud3]

Thanks bro!

[Arantor]

Or, to save yourself the performance penalty of calling the single largest part of SMF, you should be able to use HTML in the description.

[Surf3rDud3]

There is no code to change like that in that specific file.

[Arantor]

So just use regular HTML in the board description, no changes required.

[Surf3rDud3]

Lol You can?? Lol Didn't know that... Thx

[Matthew K.]

Arantor is right. First of all, even if you did want the descriptions to JUST be BBC? You'd want to run parse_bbc() Source side, NOT in the templates.

However, it's much better just to use HTML in this case as Arantor has pointed out. parse_bbc() is a huge function to run, and very taxing when you could just use plain HTML, which should work. If HTML is stripped in Board Descriptions, it would be possible to un_htmlspecialchars() it before output so that it would work.

[Surf3rDud3]

Thanks again I'll try it and if it fails I'll be back.

[Matthew K.]

Soundss good. Let us know how it goes