I'm trying to figure out what I'd need to do to store the forum code directly in the database instead of converting it to HTML first. The reason I'd like to do this is that I am converting Snitz over to be XHTML and CSS valid, and the way fonts and things are handled doesn't lend itself well to validation.
The other possibility is if I could get help setting up some Regular Expressions. This may or may not be the better route (anyone know what kind of overhead the forum code conversion would be on-the-fly?), but I am *very* new to RegEx, so couldn't come close to figuring out the strings I'd need.
Re-reading this, it seems a bit random, but just let me know if it makes sense or I need to clarify something. Thanks.
Bill Parrott Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com) Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com)
Well, I guess it's just moving the tranformations from the FormatStr function to the extratags function.....It'll have a possible negative impact on performance though.
You might want to check on the status of 'Speed Ball III' since they were doing a lot of that already. Or, you could start with the stable SBII version. In the version 2 most of the CSS was already done. To remove the rest of the font stuff you would just need to edit the way forum code for colors and fonts is handled. For that Marcel's got another post going.
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Posted - 22 December 2005 : 08:53:24
