Question

I’m looking for a BBCode parser in Javascript or PHP without the need of using Regex. Can anybody suggest me a good one?

Answer 1

It is recommended to use regex.

Other solution:

function bb_parse($str)
{
    return str_replace(array('[b]', '[/b]'), array('<strong>', '</strong>'), $str);
}

This can break parsing due to mis-closing tags can end up content being wrapped with a HTML tag without closing.