The ivuorinen\BBCodeParser package will help you with parsing BBCode.
This package is build on work by Joseph Landberg.
Via Composer
composer require ivuorinen/bbcodeparser
To parse some text it's as easy as this!
$bbcode = new ivuorinen\BBCode\BBCodeParser();
echo $bbcode->parse('[b]Bold Text![/b]');
// <strong>Bold Text!</strong>Would like the parser to not use all bbcodes? Just do like this.
$bbcode = new ivuorinen\BBCode\BBCodeParser();
echo $bbcode
->only('bold', 'italic')
->parse('[b][u]Bold[/u] [i]Italic[/i]![/b]'); // <strong>[u]Bold[/u] <em>Italic</em>!</strong>
echo $bbcode
->except('bold')
->parse('[b]Bold[/b] [i]Italic[/i]'); // [b]Bold[/b] <em>Italic</em>By default, the parser is case-sensitive. But if you would like the parser
to accept tags like [B]Bold Text[/B] it's really easy.
$bbcode = new ivuorinen\BBCode\BBCodeParser();
// Case insensitive
echo $bbcode->parse('[b]Bold[/b] [I]Italic![/I]', true); // <strong>Bold</strong> <em>Italic!</em>
// Or like this:
echo $bbcode->parseCaseInsensitive('[b]Bold[/b] [i]Italic[/i]'); // <strong>Bold</strong> <em>Italic!</em>You could also make it more explicit that the parser is case-sensitive by using another helper function.
$bbcode = new ivuorinen\BBCode\BBCodeParser();
echo $bbcode->parseCaseSensitive('[b]Bold[/b] [I]Italic![/I]'); // <strong>Bold</strong> [I]Italic![/I]If you would like to completely remove all BBCode it's just one function call away.
$bbcode = new ivuorinen\BBCode\BBCodeParser();
echo $bbcode->stripBBCodeTags('[b]Bold[/b] [i]Italic![/i]'); // Bold Italic!The integration into Laravel is really easy, and the method is the same for both Laravel 4 and Laravel 5. This package supports Laravel Package Auto-Discovery, so it should be picked up automatically.
If you don't want auto-discovery, or because of old habits, just open your app.php config file.
In there you just add this to your providers array
'ivuorinen\BBCode\BBCodeParserServiceProvider'And this to your facades array
'BBCode' => 'ivuorinen\BBCode\Facades\BBCodeParser'The syntax is the same as if you would use it in vanilla PHP but with the BBCode:: before the methods.
Here are some examples.
// Simple parsing
echo BBCode::parse('[b]Bold Text![/b]');
// Limiting the parsers with the only method
echo BBCode::only('bold', 'italic')
->parse('[b][u]Bold[/u] [i]Italic[/i]![/b]'); // <strong>[u]Bold[/u] <em>Italic</em>!</strong>
// Or the except method
echo BBCode::except('bold')
->parse('[b]Bold[/b] [i]Italic[/i]'); // [b]Bold[/b] <em>Italic</em>composer testPlease see CONTRIBUTING for details.
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