Bbcodes On Websites

demonlord

Mar 6 2008, 10:12 PM

Hello,
is there a way for me to allow bbcode to be used on my site, i'm not running a forum or a cms or anything like that it's just a plain website. if some one could help me that would be great.

jlhaslip

Mar 6 2008, 10:41 PM

Where on your site? in a Comments field? or in a chat box? or when you add your own content?

Regardless, you will need to use php (probably) to change the values from bbcode to html code so it displays properly. you might as well just use html code. They are quite similar. [ b ] == <b>, etc

demonlord

Mar 8 2008, 12:59 AM

hi jlhaslip, thanks for the reply, i'm wanting to be able to use these in comment fields and in a guest book that i'm making

jlhaslip

Mar 8 2008, 01:42 AM

well, search:bbcode parser and you just might hit one.

First Result looks promising: http://elouai.com/bbcode-sample.php

demonlord

Mar 8 2008, 02:19 AM

thanks i found a couple of them i like

galexcd

Mar 8 2008, 04:34 AM

Haslip. That first bbcode parser is terrible. It uses str_replace and is completely exploitable. Just see what happens when you try this bbcode in it:

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[img]http://www.trap17.com/forums/style_images/logo.gif" onload="while(true){alert('this parser sucks');}[/img]

jlhaslip

Mar 8 2008, 10:55 AM

The string parsing from bbcde to html is one thing, security is another and they should be separate functions in your code, depending on the 'threat', the level of security you desire, and the importance of the transaction .
I think we both agree that the security of data is important and the first rule of site security is to "Never Trust User Input".

Let me say that one more time: "Never Trust User Input".

The input should be 'sanitized' before the code is placed through the parser. And thanks Alex for reminding us of this important point. There are many methods that can be used to sanitize code.

For example, you could use the following snippet (or similar) to sanitize User Input before processing the code, and there are other methods to make user input more secure. This is only one example:

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$allowedtags = "<strong><em><ul><li><pre><hr><blockquote><span>";
$cstring = strip_tags($val, $allowedtags);
$cstring = nl2br($cstring);

There are other functions you can arrange for the 'cleansing of data. This is merely an example of one method.
For Cross site scripting threats, there is a good one to be found at http://quickwired.com/kallahar/smallprojec...er_function.php .
I think it would eliminate the threat you proposed as an example. Not tested.

alex1985

Mar 8 2008, 12:25 PM

What is the way that I can put BBCode on my own site?

galexcd

Mar 8 2008, 04:13 PM

QUOTE(jlhaslip @ Mar 8 2008, 02:55 AM)

Yes, it is a good idea mostly to have them separate, but remember, in my example, you may not want to escape or delete all quote in a post, just ones within certain tags which would have to be done with preg_replace rather than str_replace, or if you were going to program your own bbcode parser that would pass over and recognize your bbcode and then would modify it on the second pass.

demonlord

Mar 10 2008, 12:02 AM

so is the one that jlhaslip recomend safe to use, because that is the one i picked, and i dont want to use anything unsafe on my site. if it is not safe, which one would you recomend.

Oh and i dont know if it matters but the tags that i want to use are:

center
url
email
youtube
right

so if someone could help me out that would be great

Thanks

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rvalkass

Mar 24 2008, 10:56 AM

Both the opening of the Fast Reply box, and the buttons for adding BBCodes work by using Javascript. The Fast Reply box is opened and closed by using HTML and CSS properties to display and hide elements. The Javascript just toggles between displaying the box, and not displaying it.

Getting the BBCodes inserted is a bit trickier, and notoriously hard to get working in IE, FF, Opera, Konqueror, Safari and all the other browsers. The code can get quite complex to work across all the browsers, and rather than try to write it myself and replicate it here, I'll point you to a Google search that contains many different ways of achieving this, each with their own pros and cons: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q...earch&meta=

alex1985

Mar 24 2008, 08:03 AM

All right. How to integrate the complicated BB Code Parsing like the one on this forum, with pictures, a user just click the picture and the action will follow. You can take the quick form reply as an exemple for that.

galexcd

Mar 10 2008, 06:29 PM

Did you use the function I wrote? The function doesn't automatically parse it for you, you actually need to call it

instead of something like this:

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echo mysql_result($result,0,"post");

Try this:

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echo bbReplace(mysql_result($result,0,"post"));

alex1985

Mar 10 2008, 05:58 PM

So, how do I plug such BB Codes on my site's page?!

demonlord

Mar 10 2008, 05:40 PM

no there was no error message it just gave me the tags that i put in the comment field when i submitted, it. i tryed using the center tag so in the comment fields i pu the following:

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[center]this is a test to see if the bbcodes are working[/center]

and when it submitted the info, all i saw was what i put in the box center tags and all.

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