Create unclosed BBcodes

[TB54]

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Hello everyone,

I would like to know if there is a way to create unclosed BBcodes only by modifying templates, and not the core?

I'm interested in creating a variant of the BBcode [ * ], used for the objects of a list.

I would like to create another open BBcode (for instance [**]) which would add a margin below each object of the list, for when those lists are made of big blocks of texts. Without having to close the BBcode for each line, like for [ * ] (i try to simplify the message writing as much as I can, as much users are not used to BBcode, and that it's hard to deal with multiples tags lost in big blocks of text in the editor).

To sum up, that:

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[**]{TEXT}

would mean that:

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<li style="margin-bottom:6px">{TEXT}</li>

But the admin BBcode creator doesn't accept open BBcode (nor BBcode named with just ** in it).

Is their a simple way to create this BBcode manually, or to deactivate the interdiction which doesn't accept open bbcodes (and * in them)?

Or does it means touching to the core and needing an extension?

[JoshyPHP]

** isn't accepted as a valid BBCode name but if you name it anything else, it should work as expected. Note that both * and li already taken.

The definition requires an end tag, but in posts you can skip it like the default [*] BBCode. You can try this definition for example: [bigli]{TEXT}[/bigli]

None of that requires any extension or custom coding. You may be able to create an extension to use your own [**] markup inside of posts; You'd have to learn how to write an extension and execute the following line via the core.text_formatter_s9e_configure_after event: $configurator->Preg->match('/\\[\\*\\*\\]/', 'BIGLI'); Or maybe via a custom parser of sorts.

• https://area51.phpbb.com/docs/dev/3.3.x ... er-plugins
• https://s9etextformatter.readthedocs.io ... sing-match
• https://s9etextformatter.readthedocs.io ... er_parser/

[TB54]

Oh, I never thought it would work with just one opened!

Thanks a lot.

I would be tempted for the extension solution in order to use [**], but my javascript skills are really too non-existent to try that for the moment. But I keep the links that for later, thanks!

[Mick]

You could make an extension request, you have most of the code for it maybe someone will build it for you.

[TB54]

I didn't thought to ask it for a so little thing, but you're right, I will try!