[How to]BBcode Tutorial

[andars]

Awesome, that did the trick. Thanks a lot.

[Handyman]

Also, don't ask for support for making mods at area51, they aren't supported over there yet and you will most likely get your topic locked.

[Ghost Sniper X]

I have followed this format correctly. However it is not submitting fields to the database. Here is the complete code:

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if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$title = utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('title', '', true));
$preview = utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('preview', '', true));
$post = utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('post', '', true));

$userid = $user->data['user_id'];
$newsip = $user->ip;
$date = time();

$uid = $bitfield = $options = ''; // will be modified by generate_text_for_storage
$allow_bbcode = $allow_urls = $allow_smilies = true;

generate_text_for_storage($title, $preview, $post, $userid, $newsip, $date, $uid, $bitfield, $options, $allow_bbcode, $allow_urls, $allow_smilies);

$sql_ary = array(
    'news_title'        => $title,
   'news_preview'      => $preview,
    'news_post'         => $post,
   'news_authid'       => $userid,
    'news_ip'           => $newsip,
    'news_date'         => $date,
    'bbcode_uid'        => $uid,
    'bbcode_bitfield'   => $bitfield,
    'bbcode_options'    => $options,
);

$sql = 'INSERT INTO tabled_news ' . $db->sql_build_array('INSERT', $sql_ary);
$db->sql_query($sql);
            }

echo'<form name="news" method="post" action="news.php?sid='.$user->session_id.'">
Title:<br>
<input type="post" name="title"><br>
News Preview:<br>
<textarea name="preview"></textarea><br>
News Post:<br>
<textarea name="post"></textarea><br>
<input type="Submit" Name="submit" value="Post News"><br>
</form>';

It submits everything except preview, post, bbcode_bitfield, bbcode_options. Then bbcode_uid is being submitted as "2" which is my id. I believe I have done everything correctly, however it is not working. Please help, thanks.

[Zappien Nico]

It looks like this is a very old topic but i take my chance,


the bbcode works perfect on the site! Now what i don't see is, what if i want to make a preview function? the text won't be stored by that, so how do you do something like that? like you use bbcode then click on preview and then you see the output... ( this is for outside the forum btw, on the normal site )


Thanks in advance