Convert vB code to HTML

[Sarenji]

http://www.geocities.com/mr_james_b0nd_007/
(Don't ask about the terrible URL. Also Obi made me post this.)

This is something to help save time converting forum posts into HTML. If there are bugs, do report them!

The bullets at the top will encapsulate every line with either:

• nothing (default) or
• <p>text</p>.

It also converts every , , ,

• , , [center], and [img] tag into thei...ad.php?p=1069160#post1069160]this post itself. Quote the post, put the contents in the top box, press "Use <p>", and convert. Also of note is that it won't fix everything. Just replace the rest yourself :)

 

[Great Sage]

Nice. I'd imagine this to be very helpful.

 

[chaos]

<@chaos> sarenji
<@chaos> your stuff doesnt work correctly with <@chaos> also, it should probably convert > < and stuff in the page itself to appropriate entities

 

[Sarenji]

Thanks a lot for the help on regex stuff, chaos. All that's been fixed now, hopefully. > and < and & are now replaced for their HTML entities.

EDIT: Stuff below is fixed now.

"[*]text" has problems when I try to replace it with "<li>text</li>". I don't know how to group properly or something, I guess.
I have:

code = code.replace(/\[\*\]([^([\*\])]*)/gi, "<li>$1</li>")

If this

[list][*]e[b]eeee[/b]
[*]regex is cool (but hard)[*]asdf
[/list]

is entered, then I get

<ul><li>e</li><strong>eeee</strong>
<li>regex is cool </li>(but hard)<li>asdf</li>
</ul>

It leaves out the [ and (, how do I fix this? The regex should include all characters until it encounters another "[*]" or the end of the string.

 

[chaos]

uhhhhhh thanks linton?

ok, so you dont want help sarenji? i can help you if you want me to.

 

[Sarenji]

OK that took a while. If you want to use this, you can use it now. The below is now correctly converted.

Outside of List[list][*]A [b]bullet[/b][*]e[u]e[/u]e[/list]between lists[list][*]adf[*]e[i]ee[/i][/list]outside!

Don't know what to do for nested lists, though.

Also added img and center (don't think people will use this one but whatever).

 

[Faltzer]

Not sure if it's OK to post here now, but I couldn't help noticing that the <img> tag is missing an alt attribute. =/;

 

[chaos]

of course it's okay to post. sarenji, if you still check this, wanna fix that? just have it add alt=""

 

[Sarenji]

Okay, I added it. Sorry about the long delay for such a simple fix. I've been incredibly busy. You know the drill: research projects, APs, the SAT.

 

[eric the espeon]

Probably worth noting that GeoCities has permanently closed down, making the converter inaccessible. May be worth putting up somewhere else?

 

[Desolate]

I am not able to open this your URL its showing me error message "Sorry, the GeoCities web site you were trying to reach is no longer available". I think your link is broken or it is accessible in some of the countries and others are restricted.

GeoCities has been shut down. I'm sure no-one has gotten around to hosting it somewhere else, or had the purpose of hosting it elsewhere.

 

[jumpluff]

It's simple enough to do it manually anyway. If you hate writing out <p> and </p> or copy-pasting them, use a tag-wrap plugin for an editor like Notepad++. WebEdit is one I'm already testing.

 

[Kane Dunestorm]

Or, you could simply try using TinyMCE/FCKeditor's demo site. (Google them) They essentially are WYSIWYG editors that can be dropped in as replacements for most textarea forms in a web site.

 

[jumpluff]

WYSIWYG editors are largely terrible... some are worse than others, but I've not yet encountered one I'd be satisfied with. x_x

 

[Captain Snacks]

Disregard this, I didn't see this post:
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2483488&postcount=4

 

[Oglemi]

geocities no longer exists, so this is going to get moved to L&O

I'm sure it was cool at one point though