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Thanks to the forum, as i have found this place so useful that i always love the site, please i want to create a forum with php and mysql so i want to add Smiles and all this Bold, italic, Code, Link, Quote and even more, can somebody help me out? if you knew a tutorial on it please tell me.

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Emoticons are easy, just use the str_replace function to replace the emoticon symbols (ie: :)) with image tags. Other tags are a bit more complex, requiring the preg_replace function, which uses regex to match the pattern for the replace. A good manual to this can be found here and here.

Also, you will likely wish to cache the results so that you only have to process once.

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i store my forum posts in the database already converted to html. then if someone wants to edit their post, i convert it back to bbcode for them to edit. this made the most sense to me because a post is going to be viewed a LOT more often than edited.

the other option was to store both html and bbcode versions, but i thought the small hit to convert html back to bbcode for editing was better than storing everything twice.