# How to import VBcode?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 11, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172 "2004-03-11T17:16:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@imagined](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/imagined)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172/1 "2004-03-11T17:16:28Z")
Ok. so, finally, after hours of swimming through Kirupa’s .js files, I already have my Javascript to enter the [-b] [-/b] tags. So, when they click on a B button, it automatically enters the tags.
Now, when I bring it from the database to be displayed in the PHP file. I see the [-b] tags, like:
[-b] hey! im supposed to be bolded, but i have this B’s instead [-b]
So, how to I make BBcode work?
Please forgive my ignorance. All I have learned it’s through online tutorials, reading books, or through you guys.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172/2 "2004-03-11T18:44:15Z")
I have been reading the preg\_replace and the eregi\_replace functions in the [PHP.net](http://PHP.net) site. Have been trying some, but can’t get it. Can someone help me replace all the:
[-b] [-/b]
to
\\
and the other tags too?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172/3 "2004-03-11T18:46:02Z")
```php
$string = str_replace("[b ****]", "", $string);
```
just repeat for the other tags…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172/4 "2004-03-11T18:54:46Z")
I have this:
$string = “ **hello world** ”;
$var = str\_replace("\*\*", “\”, $string);
echo $var;
Why doesn’t it work?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172/5 "2004-03-11T19:01:22Z")
because there isn’t a [b\*\*\*\*] in your string…
try this::
```php
$string = "My name is [****b]Bob**";
$string = str_replace("[**** b]", "", $string);
echo $string;
```
str\_replace searches a string for the first argument, and replaces it with the second argument…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172/6 "2004-03-11T19:03:52Z")
> \*Originally posted by Vash \*
> \*\*because there isn’t a [b\*\*\*\*] in your string…
try this::
```php
$string = "My name is [****b]Bob**";
$string = str_replace("[**** b]", "", $string);
echo $string;
```
str\_replace searches a string for the first argument, and replaces it with the second argument… \*\*
You have to close the tag as well…
```php
$string = "My name is [****b]Bob**";
$string = str_replace("[**** b]", "", $string);
$string = str_replace("[/ **** b]", "", $string)
echo $string;
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172/7 "2004-03-11T19:08:27Z")
lol good point :thumb:
😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172/8 "2004-03-11T19:29:26Z")
sorry. i did had the [-b], thats why the text its bold. sorry 😃
I have this form, and people could enter all kinds of formating in it: like lists, bold, change font, change font size, and i’ll have to do one replace of each.
is there a way i can simplify this? or like put the whole replace script in a file and then called it from the page?:puzzle:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172/9 "2004-03-11T19:31:15Z")
> \*Originally posted by imagined \*
> \*\*sorry. i did had the [-b], thats why the text its bold. sorry 😃
I have this form, and people could enter all kinds of formating in it: like lists, bold, change font, change font size, and i’ll have to do one replace of each.
is there a way i can simplify this? or like put the whole replace script in a file and then called it from the page?:puzzle: \*\*
I’m on a Regular Expression based solution which is more complex but should work better 🙂
EDIT:
```php
"strong", "u"=>"span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"");
function toVBCode($string, $vbcode){
foreach($vbcode as $key => $value){
$string = preg_replace("#\\[$key\\](.*)\\[/$key\\]#", "<$value>\\\\1", $string);
}
return $string;
}
$test = " **this is a test** , of [u]regexp[/u]";
$test = toVBCode($test, $vbcode);
?>
```
There you go 🙂 just put that in a file, change $vbcode, include it, and then call toVBCode($yourstring, $vbcode). Easy as pie 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-import-vbcode/45172/10 "2004-03-11T19:53:23Z")
I have such a problem with regular expressions… for some reason I just can’t understand how to use them…