Using Brackets in PHP

[al2six]

I'm modifying the news script for my site to also add the article to my forum. I'm trying to use bbcodes to format the body of the post, but I keep getting parse errors. I have something like the following:

$post="[ b ]Heading[/ b ] Article";

Every time i get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING

I figured out that if i have [tag] it works fine. but then as soon as i add the closing tag ([/tag]) i get the error. any ideas how i can fix this?

[daboss]

try this before you insert/update the database:

$post = mysql_real_escape_string($post);

[Izzmo]

Why does the bbcode have spaces in it?

Also,
do this:

PHP Code:

$post = addslashes($post); 


This will add the necessary escape slashes you will need. Because, instead of it being [ /b], it should be [ //b]

[DragonEye]

hmmm,

maybe: $post="[ b ]Heading[\/ b ] Article";

could work...?

Strange error message, are you sure that that is the cause of the error?

Matt.

[Shockt]

Originally Posted by Izzmo

...instead of it being [ /b], it should be [ //b]

It actually should be [\/b], since \ is the escape character.

But as others above have suggested, try addslashes($post). Then when you are ready to output the information, remember to stripslashes($post).

[Izzmo]

oh doy! lol, I was off doing something when I wrote this lol.

[StupidScript]

It's something else. Can you post the actual code for that particular function and, maybe, specify some character that you are using in your post to get around the forum programming? (i.e. [ b ] uses space chars to get around the automatic bolding functions.) I mention "something else" because of "T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE".

A forward slash shouldn't break that particular variable.

[Paul M]

I believe it should work fine if you used single quotes to enclose it ;

PHP Code:

$post='[b]Heading[/b] Article';