Re: 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. -- Cheers David Robley SCUD : Sure Could Use Directions