XF 2.3 What is the function to convert bb to html?

[kenji4861]

TLDR : Looking for a function that will convert BB code to HTML


I want to display a post on a custom page.

I first do a mysql query to get the post message
select message from xf_post where post_id=123456

Once I get the 'message', it's in bb format.

Is there a XF function that can easily change this to HTML?

Vbulletin had a bb2html type function.

Skimming through the developers document but I'm not finding it.

Thank you.

 

[mjda]

There may be another way, but I use this code, in my template, with one of my add-ons:

{{ bb_code({$message}, null, null) }}

I believe it's supposed to be something like this, technically:

{{ bb_code({$entity.message}, 'content_type', {$entity}) }}

 

[kenji4861]

Hey thanks mjda, this will work within the xenforo acp templates, but I'm just working with external php files.

Maybe I'm missing how all this works.

 

[mjda]

Ok, so I'm honestly not sure how you'd call \XF::app() from an external PHP script, because everything I do is from within the XF environment, but if you could figure that out, something like this should work:

$app = \XF::app();

$renderedMessage = $app->bbCode()->render($message, 'html', '', null, []);

Or, better yet, I'd probably just figure out how to do what you're wanting to do using the XF platform.

I started with the following page a few years ago and have just continued trying to learn from there:

Let's build an add-on | Developer Documentation | XenForo

Developer documentation for XenForo

xenforo.com

 

[kenji4861]

@mjda You are a lifesaver! That's exactly what I needed!

This worked!

require ($DIR . '/forums/src/XF.php');
\XF::start($DIR . '/forums');
$app = \XF::setupApp('XF\Pub\App');
$app->start();
$message = "[b]bold test[/b] - not bold text";
$renderedMessage = $app->bbCode()->render($message, 'html', '', null, []);

Thank you

and thank you for the documentation page too.