RE: [PEAR-DEV] HTML_BBCodeParser Wish List

After pondering on this a bit more I had a few more ideas... It would seem that in the interest of preserving resources that it would also be nice if the class could convert back to BBCode from HTML also. In its current state one cannot store the text rendered as HTML, and also have the ability for the user to edit the original BBCode'd text. Which causes the programmer to have to call on the parser every time the text is displayed. With a BBCode to HTML and HTML to BBCode parser, the text could be stored rendered, and then unrendered should the need to edit arise, eliminating the parser from the viewer portion of the application. (Which would also eliminate my need for a BBCode strip_tags function, since the text would already be rendered). Still might be a good idea to have one though. The HTML parser bit could be beneficial to other packages as well (as Helgi mentioned). Obviously I could also convert from BBCode to HTML and then strip tags (which is probably what I'll do for a hot fix), but that seems the long way around! I can see that alot of the groundwork is already in place for the former, an HTML to BBCode parser.. since the opening and closing tag delimiters are customizable. But doesn't appear to be reversible for all the HTML. I also noticed that you use width= and height= in the img tag, again a CSS option would be nice! The HTML 4.01 validator also requires an alt attribute with every img tag? Perhaps you could throw an empty one in there, or allow for its specification with BBCode, such as [img='path/to/image']Caption/Alt text[/img]. Regards, Richard York