How to convert HTML to BBCode

Question

I maintain a bulletin board that saves rich text messages in HTML. Now I need to migrate all those messages into Joomla Kunena bulletin board that requires BBCode representa

Answer 1

It should be doable with XSLT in text output mode:

<xsl:output method="text">
…
<xsl:template match="b|strong">[b]<xsl:apply-templates/>[/b]</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="br">&#10;</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="p">&#10;<xsl:apply-templates/>&#10;</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="a">[url="<xls:value-of select="@href"/>"]<xsl:apply-templates/>[/url]</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()"><x:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/></xsl:template>

To get there parse HTML and use built-in XSLT processor.

Answer 2

I would recommend that you use regular expressions to convert <b> to [b] tags. This shouldn't be that hard, as all you would need to to is get the HTML and feed it in to a php script that could save it in some kind of file that you can save in your new forum.

Hope that helps, RayQuang