Re: [PHP] Re: Is BBCode Installed

Stephen wrote:

> On 13-04-10 10:59 PM, David Robley wrote:
>> I ran phpinfo() on my host and searched for "BBCode". Not found.
>>
>> Does this mean that the extension is not installed?
>>
>> If not, how can I tell?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> BBCode isn't a php extension, but may be implemented using php or other
>> languages. See http://www.bbcode.org/ for more info.
>>
> Thank you for replying, but:
> 
> http://php.net/manual/en/book.bbcode.php
> 
> 
>   Introduction
> 
> This extension aims to help parse BBCode text in order to convert it to
> HTML or another markup language. It uses one pass parsing and provides
> great speed improvement over the common approach based on regular
> expressions. Further more, it helps provide valid HTML by reordering
> open / close tags and by automatically closing unclosed tags.
> 
> 
That appears to be a PECL extension, not 'core' php and more info on 
installing can be found at http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.php.

Not having used PECL extensions, I can't say whether they are reflected in 
phpinfo() output.

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Cheers
David Robley

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