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I am trying to include a snippet of the main SONG_HISTORY information on my artists music pages.

BBCode is messing with this and I wondered if anybody could point me in the right direction?

So in my song_footer.tpl I have put this function in to show just the first 250 characters of the SONG_HISTORY

<?php
$contents = "{SONG_HISTORY}";
// remove the bbcode url tags
$stripper = array("[url]", "[/url]" );
$contents = str_replace($stripper, "", $contents);
//find the first 250 characters of the SONG_HISTORY
$rest = substr($contents, 0, 250);?>
<?php echo $rest; ?>

This will work ok when i put in a bbcode url like this in the song history

[url]wwwmysite.com[/url]

but when I use [url]www.mysite.com[/url]

I get a parsing error...

Any ideas?

Thanx

Rich

peace

[Brian]

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I am trying to include a snippet of the main SONG_HISTORY information on my artists music pages. BBCode is messing with this and I wondered if anybody could point me in the right direction? So in my song_footer.tpl I have put this function in to show just the first 250 characters of the SONG_HISTORY <?php $contents = "{SONG_HISTORY}"; // remove the bbcode url tags $stripper = array("[url]", "[/url]" ); $contents = str_replace($stripper, "", $contents); //find the first 250 characters of the SONG_HISTORY $rest = substr($contents,0,250);?> <?php echo $rest; ?> This will work ok when i put in a bbcode url like this in the song history [url]wwwmysite.com[/url] but when I use www.mysite.com I get a parsing error... Any ideas? Thanx Rich peace

Rich -

by the time the "{SONG_HISTORY}" variable is put into the artist templates (.tpl) it has already been "expanded" so to speak to regular HTML. You might have a hard time getting the HTML to work properly that way since in effect you could cut it off in the middle of an open tag. Your best bet is to strip all html from the tag before you use it:

Code

<?php $contents = strip_tags("{SONG_HISTORY}"); echo substr($contents, 0, 250); ?>

Let me know if that works for you. Hope this helps!

- Brian


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[fingers]

Thanks Brian

Unfortunately this didn't help... this caused a parsing error - even with no bbcode in the SONG_HISTORY

I have put a warning on this theme for my users - but i would love to find a way to do this.

[Brian]

fingers:

Thanks Brian Unfortunately this didn't help... this caused a parsing error - even with no bbcode in the SONG_HISTORY I have put a warning on this theme for my users - but i would love to find a way to do this.

hmm... that bit of code shouldn't of caused a parsing error - did you perhaps add other code into the page at the same time? I'll check it out on the dev server here (that bit above wasn't tested) and make sure I didn't mess something up.

Thanks!

- Brian


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I don't think there was any other code on the page. (apart from html)

Thanks Brian! This problem has been bugging me for quite a while - I really appreciate your help!