Zend Framework: Zend_Filter_Bbcode Component Proposal
| Proposed Component Name | Zend_Filter_Bbcode |
|---|---|
| Developer Notes | http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV/Zend_Filter_Bbcode |
| Proposers | Van Belle Jonathan Ralph Schindler, Zend liaison |
| Revision | 1.0 - 22 Augustus 2007 : first proposal (wiki revision: 8) |
Table of Contents
1. Overview
Zend_Filter_Bbcode is a component to parse bbcode tags to html syntax.
2. References
3. Component Requirements, Constraints, and Acceptance Criteria
4. Dependencies on Other Framework Components
- Zend_Filter_Interface
5. Theory of Operation
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6. Milestones / Tasks
- Milestone 1: [DONE] basic code
- Milestone 2: add more comments on the code!
- Milestone 3: Optimisation
- Milestone 4: unit test
7. Class Index
- Zend_Filter_Bbcode
8. Use Cases
| UC-01 |
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9. Class Skeletons
By the way, here you can see a very good implementation of BB-code parsing:
http://www.christian-seiler.de/projekte/php/bbcode/index_en.html
I agree, its a nice one, but its in PHP4 and quite complex to use (it maybe might be easier
). But this shows me one thing: Its not such a good idea to try to replace BBCode with theire html-tags, as you also mentioned, instead of a "parsing process". So it seems to be more useful to implement BBCode as an own component instead of a filter (also mentioned by another proposal (1)), which cant reach the power of something like Seiler's implementation. A filter may access that component.
(1) http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Filter_Bbcode+-+Pieter+Kokx
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Replacing BBCodes with regular expressions or simple string replaces is a very bad idea, as it could end in not well-formed HTML/XHTML. In mind of the MVC pattern, this should also be part of a view helper, not of a component in the controller part.