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reverse bb-codes when echo


I have found a code to use bb-codes in my personal message on profiles, but when i go back to settings to change the message it echo html tags instead of the bb-codes replacement.

bb-codes :

        if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

        if(isset($_POST['bio_message'])){
//BBCode Parser function
function showBBcodes($text) {
        // BBcode array
        $find = array(
                '~\[b\](.*?)\[/b\]~s',
                '~\[i\](.*?)\[/i\]~s',
                '~\[u\](.*?)\[/u\]~s',
                '~\[quote\](.*?)\[/quote\]~s',
                '~\[url\]((?:ftp|https?)://.*?)\[/url\]~s',
                '~\[img\](https?://.*?\.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp))\[/img\]~s'
        );
        // HTML tags to replace BBcode
        $replace = array(
                '<b>$1</b>',
                '<i>$1</i>',
                '<p style="text-decoration:underline;">$1</p>',
                '<pre>$1</'.'pre>',
                '<a href="$1">$1</a>',
                '<img src="$1" alt="" />'
        );
        // Replacing the BBcodes with corresponding HTML tags
        return preg_replace($find,$replace,$text);
}
// How to use the above function:
$text = $_POST['bio_message'];
$htmltext = showBBcodes($text);

        }

            $id = htmlentities($_SESSION['user']['id'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

            $bio_sql = "UPDATE users SET bio = '$htmltext' WHERE id = '$id'";
            $db->query($bio_sql);
        }else{}

echo bio in textarea:

<?php
$id = htmlentities($_SESSION['user']['id'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
 $SQL = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = '$id'";


 $result = $db->query($SQL);

/* associative array */
$row = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC);
print(htmlentities($row['bio'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));

    $result->free();
?>

Solution

  • Try this function

    function showHTML($text) {
        // HTML tags to replace
        $find = array(
            '~<b>(.*?)</b>~s',
            '~<i>(.*?)</i>~s',
            '~<p style="text-decoration:underline;">(.*?)</p>~s',
            '~<pre>(.*?)</pre>~s',
            '~<a href="(.*?)">(.*?)</a>~s',
            '~<img src="(.*?)" alt="" />~s'
        );
    
        // BBcode array
        $replace = array(
            '[b]$1[/b]',
            '[i]$1[/i]',
            '[u]$1[/u]',
            '[quote]$1[/quote]',
            '[url]$1[/url]',
            '[img]$1[/img]'
        );
    
        // Replacing the BBcodes with corresponding HTML tags
        return preg_replace($find,$replace,$text);
    }
    

    Input:

    <i>fsfsdfsf</i> <a href="http://abc.de">http://abc.de</a>
    

    Output:

    [i]fsfsdfsf[/i] [url]http://abc.de[/url]