Is there a way for a simple html/php page to use SMF to parse a variable for BBC

[Jacen]

Okay, what I want is say I have a PHP page like:

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<?
$var = "[b]Test[/b]";

echo $var;
?>

What I'd like to do is simply parse the $var for BBC using SMF's parser... Is this possible?

[Kindred]

possible... but complicated.

Someone did something similar for the discussbot for Joomla/mambo

[karlbenson]

If your using ssi, it should be easy.

Once you've got ssi, you can just use smf's parse_bbc(); function to parse it.

http://support.simplemachines.org/function_db/index.php?action=view_function;id=242

So you would use something like
$var = parse_bbc($var, true, '');
Change the true to false if you don't want smileys parsed. Just bbcode.

[Jacen]

If your using ssi, it should be easy.

Once you've got ssi, you can just use smf's parse_bbc(); function to parse it.

http://support.simplemachines.org/function_db/index.php?action=view_function;id=242

So you would use something like
$var = parse_bbc($var, true, '');
Change the true to false if you don't want smileys parsed. Just bbcode.

Thanks, this looks exactly like what I want.

Stupid question.. does it have to be a variable or can I use the include function to get it to parse and echo an entire .txt file?

[Nathaniel]

It has to be a variable, but you should be able to open the file and pass it to the function as a string anyway.

[Jacen]

Thanks all, I got this to work perfectly.