BBCode from 4.5 not being Parsed in 4.6?

By Nick Wilson on 31 May 2005 at 16:34 UTC

Hi,

Im aware (i think..) that the bbcode from my 4.5 install (several thousand posts) would not be parsed unless i had the bbcode module in place in 4.6, but it's not available yet for 4.6 and i'd like to upgrade.

Can anyone suggest a workaround? I have all this unparsed bbcode being spit out on the pages and really need to convert it to html i guess...

thanks for any help!

Nick

Comments

Update the module yourself?

Steven commented 31 May 2005 at 16:37

The filter system did not change functionally between 4.5 and 4.6. You could try updating the module yourself.

See the module upgrading guide.

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I can certainly have a look,

Nick Wilson commented 31 May 2005 at 16:41

I can certainly have a look, but im surprised that more people aren't in this position...?

BBCode is not very popular in Drupal

Steven commented 31 May 2005 at 16:49

BBCode is not a popular format in Drupal... it is mostly used by those who come from existing BBcode-using systems.

In Drupal, we prefer to use HTML: the syntax is not significantly more complicated than BBcode, and it is a standard which more people are familiar with. Those who wish to save their users the trouble of tags, can use WYSIWYG editors or bars which insert tags for you. Or they can use a simpler markup format like Markdown.

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Converting

Nick Wilson commented 31 May 2005 at 17:02

Right. Any ideas on how i might convert the existing entries to html?

That way i could just ditch the bbcode module, maybe a little more work but much better for the future im thinking...

The best part of BBCode module

laura s commented 31 May 2005 at 18:13

...is that it obscures email addresses in the code. For that feature alone I enabled it in 4.6 installations. I had to juggle its order amongst the filters, but it works at least that much. I've not tried it with actual BB code, though. Yet sometimes modules don't need to change from Drupal version to version.

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Yeah, i was just coming to

Nick Wilson commented 31 May 2005 at 18:22

Yeah, i was just coming to post that Laura! You have to change the filter so that it parses the bbcode first, rather than after the html...

I guess the only good way of doing a fix on all bbcode in the db would be to do a small module (just so it included all the right scripts etc) to go through each entry in the db and use whatever function it is that converts it to html on each bit...

I'll most likely work on that, but not right now :)

Personally I can't get HTML

TheoGB commented 31 August 2005 at 21:43

Personally I can't get HTML and BBCode to function together regardless of how I order them.

I know that the line breaks bit has to come before BBCode but HTML and BBCode don't work.

That said, I am converting straight from 4.4.2 to 4.6.3 and under 4.4.2 I can tell you that HTML never really was happy with BBCode.

I don't agree with the earlier comments about HTML. Most sites use BBCode, particularly the most popular forums. Its parsing of URLs is much nicer and it also discourages people from trying HTML that won't work in any case or accidentally leaving spurious HTML kicking around your pages...