Where there is a Will

I had a little spare time to do some work on postmarkup.py, my BBCode module. It now handles Unicode correctly, which was a big omission, considering its intended use. I also added a few other features. The tag parameter string can now be specified in 3(!) different ways. For example, the following 3 lines are equivalent.

[link=http://www.willmcgugan.com]My homepage[/link]
[link="http://www.willmcgugan.com"]My homepage[/link]
[link http://www.willmcgugan.com]My homepage[/link]

Another addition, is an [img] tag.

[img]http://www.willmcgugan.com/wp-content/uploads/ant.png[/img]

There is also support for lists (ordered and un-ordered), with the phpbb syntax. For example:

[list]
[*]Apples
[*]Oranges
[*]Pears
[/list]

This produces an un-ordered list.

• Apples
• Oranges
• Pears

I didn’t implement the [size] and [color] tags, because for my purposes I don’t want users creating annoying text! If you need them, take a look at the code - new tags are fairly easy to implement. For more information, please see the other posts regarding bbcode on my blog, or contact me.

Download postmarkup.py

I plan on putting postmarkup and some of my other open source code on google code when I have more spare time. Bare with me folks!

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