Forum codes

In article <7z51b.79045$F92.8659@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>, HamuNaptra
<hamunaptra@pandora.be.NOSPAM> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm making my own forum, but I've run into a problem.
>
> I created my own BB-code e.e. [b] = bold, ...
>
> I use this code:
> $msg = str_replace("", "<b>", $msg);
> $msg = str_replace("", "</b>", $msg);
>
> now this works fine, but I also want to allow links using
>
> link
> name
>
> I could do a search for [URL, then remember the position and depending on the
> folowing
>
> ]
> - search for [/url] and all chars before that is the hyperlink
>
> OR =
> - search for ], all chars before that make up the hyperlink, and all folowing
> chars in front of [/url] make up the name
>
> This is my way, but isn't there a better way?
>
>

This isn't answering your question but..........
why don't you just write standard html?

> This isn't answering your question but..........
> why don't you just write standard html?

because I disabled html input for the obvious reasons