Question

I have some BBCode-like code for my forum:

[quote] opens a table, tr, td…
[/quote] closes the table, tr and td…

But when the user writes another [/quote] it adds another </td></tr></table>, and this closes the table the ‘forum body’ was in.

I know there is probably a simple solution, but what do I put it in so closing a table will not ‘break the layout’ so to speak?

Div? Span?

Or is it more complex?

Answer 1

Try preg_replace/regex:

preg_replace('/\[quote\](.*)\[\/quote\]/', "<table><tr><td>$1</td></tr></table>", $string);

This would match up to the first end-quote tag.