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NAME

AUBBC

SYNOPSIS

  use AUBBC;
  my $aubbc = AUBBC->new();

  my $message = 'Lets [b]Bold in HTML[/b]';

  print $aubbc->do_all_ubbc($message);

ABSTRACT

Advanced Universal Bulletin Board Code a Perl BBcode API

DESCRIPTION

AUBBC is a object oriented BBcode API designed as a developers tool for themes, wiki's, forums and other BBcode to HTML Parser needs.

Features:

1) Massive amount of supported tags.

2) Build your own tags to add custom made tags.

3) Full XSS Security for supported tags.

4) High Speed Parser

5) Assign security levels for links, images, build and code tags.

6) Protection for emails to hide them from harvesters.

7) Code download for code tags

8) Perl code highlighter in the code tags

9) Fully customizable settings.

The advantage of using this BBcode is to have the piece of mind of using a secure program, to restrict the usage of HTML/XHTML elements and to make formatting of posts easy to people that have no HTML/XHTML skill. Most sites that use these tags show a list of them and/or easy way to insert the tags to the form field by the user.

The [c] or code tags can highlight Perl code, highlighting the Perl code with CSS in HTML/XHTML, and in the examples folder the tag_list.cgi file has a CSS code you could work from and now a setting to change to a costume highlighter function. This module addresses many security issues the BBcode tags may have mainly cross site script also known as XSS. Each message is escaped before it gets returned if script_escape is Enabled and checked for many types of security problems before that tag converts to HTML/XHTML. The script_escape setting and method also converts the ' sign so the text can be stored in a SQL back-end. Most of the free web portals use the | sign as the delimiter for the flat file database, the script_escape setting and method also converts that sign so the structure of the database is retained.

Allows easy conversion to HTML and XHTML, existing tags will convert to the HTML type set.

If there isn't a popular tag available this module provides a method to "Build your own tags" custom tags can help link to parts of the current web page, other web pages and add other HTML elements.

Security

Security advice to ensure the proper usage of this module.

Database Manipulation

The default settings of AUBBC.pm is not good for most forums, blogs, wiki's and bulletin boards because by default AUBBC should work and be secure. The other reason is these programs will want some of the user input editable and portable.

For editing and portability purposes you would want to retain the tags or user input as they typed it, but always use the script_escape before saving to a back-end. This will allow you to change the settings of AUBBC on the fly so the tags remain portable to setting changes. The script_escape filter is vital to security for many reasons and provides a standard format for other methods of AUBBC. There is a file in the examples folder called Database_Manipulation.pm that try's to explain what settings to change and how to stay safe.

Mixing HTML and BBcode

Since the script_escape method will disable HTML and JavaScript, I came up with a way to mix the two. The recommended use of mixing is for Administrator's of the program only, because giving anyone the ability to post unfiltered codes is just wrong.

The mixing method is good for themes, information pages and wiki's just to name a few.

for some tags when script_escape is disabled you can just run do_all_ubbc on variables with HTML mixed with BBcode and it will work because those tags didn't need the script_escape method to make them work, but for other tags the script_escape method is needed. So this is where my solution comes in. see Mixing_HTML_and_BBcode.pm file in the examples folder

Build your own tags

When adding a custom tag you will have to remember that the methods for building custom tags try's to secure the tags. But it can not be 100% secure without the developer of the tag knowing if and what security issues the new tag may have.

The adding method restricts characters from being used in some variables of the tags, like name and pattern.

See the other "Build your own tags" for usage

XSS protection and settings

The script_escape filter will disable XSS so the text of the code can be seen in HTML/XHTML and the XSS code will not work in anyway. Some parts use standard requirements allowing only these linking path formats:

 protocal://location/web/path/or/file
 /local/web/path/or/file

There are some uncontrollable security issues with allowing images [img] and link [url] auto-link tags, you can disable [img] tags by setting "no_img => 1," to 1 as shown. Security issues with the [url] and auto-link tags is not as bad since you have to click it to get to the risky web site, unlike an image loading.

FYI

XHTML has better JavaScript security standards then HTML. Developers can also use cookies with "httponly" flags to disable JavaScript from reading that cookie, but the browsers must support it. XSS, browser hijacking and other security risks can change by settings, browser vendors and program versions.

Tag Security Access

New to v4.05. Assign security levels for links, images, build and code tags. Default settings allows all tags to be seen so there would be no changes needed if you just wanted the latest version and not use this method yet.

This method works with your current authentication and will be explained more later.

Note: The smilies is not controled by this security.

User Security Levels

Default security levels are from low to high!!!

        # The array numbers >>:    0        1         2             3
        $aubbc->security_levels('Guest', 'User', 'Moderator','Administrator')

1) The security levels array needs to have the security levels from low to high in it!!

2) The names must be spelled the same as the name passed to method user_level();

3) Security access is determined by low to high numbers and with the default Guest will be number/level 0 in the array. if the links was set for User the links level will have to be 1 = User making any lower level unable to see any bbcode links but, the Administrator would still see all.

Tag Security Levels

To change the security level of links, images and code use this method this way:

        $aubbc->tag_security(
                code         => { level => 0, text => 'register to see this', },
                img          => { level => 0, text => 'register to see this', },
                url          => { level => 0, text => 'register to see this', },
        );

level - the array number of the security level

text - the text or HTML to show if user has no access

Build your own tags has 2 new variables now:

  $aubbc->add_build_tag(
        name     => 'ok',
        pattern  => 'l,s',
        type     => 1,
        function => 'My_Message::check_ok_tag',
        level    => 3,
        error    => 'register to see this',
        );

level - the array number of the security level

error - the text or HTML to show if user has no access

For the build tags leaving the variables blank will default level to 0 and error to the $AUBBC::BAD_MESSAGE string.

User Access

This method receives the current users security level name from the web application.

        $aubbc->user_level('Administrator');

If you are using the tag security you will want to set the user_level after the user was authenticated by the web application and before do_all_ubbc is used.

Settings

These settings effect a large part of what the do_all_ubbc method can do and what other methods can do in do_all_ubbc. some settings are used in many methods

$aubbc->settings();

This is the method to change them when needed.

     $aubbc->settings(
        aubbc => 1,
        utf => 1,
        smileys => 1,
        highlight => 1,
        # est.....
      );

aubbc

Enable or Disable Main AUBBC Tags Default 1 is Enabled, 0 is Disable.

utf

Enable or Disable UTF Tags Default 1 is Enabled, 0 is Disable.

smileys

Enable or Disable Smiley Tags Default 1 is Enabled, 0 is Disable.

highlight

Enable or Disable Code Highlight Default 1 is Enabled, 0 is Disable.

highlight_function

This can replace the highlighter of AUBBC with a custome one

must provide the text name of the pre-defined subroutine that receives the code tags text and returns the highlighted text.

no_bypass

Enable or Disable User Tags for bypassing hole tag sets Default 0 is Disable, 1 is Enabled. Bypass tag must be at the very beginning of the message!!!! Must also be in the order of the "Bypass Tag list:" but not on a new line \n and if #none is used the other bypass tags will not be removed.

Bypass Tag list:

        #none
        #noaubbc
        #nobuild
        #noutf
        #nosmileys
 Enable or Disable Tags for Links Default 0 is Disable, 1 is Enabled.

 Some AUBBC Tags are not good to use in a link like other links.

 If Enabled will only use the UTF and Smiley tags.

aubbc_escape

Enable or Disable AUBBC Tag Escape Default 1 is Enabled, 0 is Disable.

Escaping a Tag:

        [b]Stuff[/b] # Normal Tag Bold
        [b]]Stuff[/b]] # Escaped Tag Bold
        [[b]Stuff[[/b] # Escaped Tag Bold
        [[b]]Stuff[[/b]] # Escaped Tag Bold

 Small Bug if Enabled:

 Any use of ]] will equal ] and any [[ will equal [

no_img

Enable or Disable the [img] tags Default 0 allows the tags and 1 will just not convert the tag.

There are some uncontrollable security issues with allowing anyone to post an image link.

icon_image

Enable or Disable Custom Image Size Default 1 is Enabled, 0 is Disable.

If enabled will use the values from image_hight and image_width

in all Image Tags [img]/images/large_pic.gif[/img]

image_hight

The Default Image height is 60px.

Only used when icon_image is Enabled.

image_width

The Default Image width is 90px.

Only used when icon_image is Enabled.

image_border

Enable or Disable Image Border Default 0 is Disable, 1 is Enabled.

image_wrap

Enable or Disable Image wrap Default 1 is Enabled, 0 is Disable.

Enabled will add a space after each image & smiley's.

href_target

 Enable or Disable href target Default 0 is Disable, 1 is Enabled.

 Enabled will add target="_blank" to all href's.

images_url

Default is blank.

This is the link to your images folder and is only used for Smilies.

 For the smileis to work you must provide a URL.

example:

 smilies must be in /smilies folder

the images_url link must have the /smilies folder in it and not point directly to /smilies.

html_type

Default is 'html' and the only other support is 'xhtml'

fix_amp

Default is 1 Enabled and the only other setting is 0 to Disable. This setting finds all the & that need to covert to the amp; html code name so the w3c xhtml validation checks ok.

line_break

Enable line_break "<br>\n" Default 1 , 2 is for the "<br>" older style that has no new line, 0 is Disable.

This will turn any new line \n to the HTML line break <br>\n or <br> by the script_escape method and the other way around with the html_to_text method.

code_class

Default is '' and this allows a custom class, style and/or JavaScript to be used in any of the [code] [c] tags.

must have a space before the text.

example:

 code_class => ' class="quote"',

 code_class => ' class="quote" onclick="....."',

code_extra

Default is '' and this is for a custom message, code, image, est.. to be used after the [code] [c] tags.

example:

 code_extra => 'Codes may not reflect what is in the current version.',

 code_extra => '<div style="clear: left"> </div>',

code_download

Default is '^Download above code^' this message will be the links name. the link will open a JavaScript popup window and write the code in it to be copyed or printed. A new JavaScript function was added to the js_print method called MyCodePrint.

To turn off set this to ''

example:

 code_download => 'Click here to get above code.',

 code_download => '',

href_class

Default is '' and this allows a custom class, style and/or JavaScript to be used in the [url] tags.

must have a space before the text.

example:

 href_class => ' class="url"',
 href_class => ' class="url" onclick="....."',

quote_class

Default is '' and this allows a custom class, style and/or JavaScript to be used in the [quote] tags.

must have a space before the text.

example:

  quote_class => ' class="quote"',
  quote_class => ' class="quote" onclick="....."',

quote_extra

Default is '' and this is for a custom message, code, image, est.. to be used after a [quote] tags.

example:

  quote_extra => 'QUOTES AND SAYINGS DISPLAYED ON THIS BLOG ARE NOT WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BLOG.',
  quote_extra => '<div style="clear: left"> </div>',

script_escape

This will turn on or off the sanitizer/escape security for the hole message.

Default is 1 on and 0 for Disable.

Notes: 1)The code highlighter works best with an escaped character format like the script_escape => 1 setting can provide.

2) If this setting is disabled and a character escaping method or security filter is not used can result is a security compromise of the AUBBC tags.

3) if Disabled the method "$message = $aubbc->script_escape($message);" can be used on the message as needed before do_all_ubbc() is called.

protect_email

Default is 1 and other possible values are (0, 2, 3, 4).

Can add a protection to hide emails in the [email] tag from email harvesters.

Not 100% fool proof.

        0 - has no type of protection.


        1 - uses unicode type protection.


        2 - Javascript and unicode type protection.


        3 - Javascript and unicode type protection.


        4 - Javascript encryption

The settings 2, 3 and 4 require the JavaScript function in the js_print method of this module. js_print can be used directly and it will print out the proper file headers for a browser to know its a JavaScript file.

email_message

When the protect_email setting is 2, 3 or 4 it will display this message as the link name. Default message is '&#67;&#111;&#110;&#116;&#97;&#99;&#116;&#32;&#69;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;' and that say's 'Contact Email'.

highlight_class#

This is for using your own class or font color for the code highlighter.

example:

        highlight_class1 => ' class="highlightclass1"',

highlight_class1 = String quote

highlight_class2 = Comment's

highlight_class3 = String quote

highlight_class4 = String quote

highlight_class5 = Number's

highlight_class6 = Operator, Function and other Name's

highlight_class7 = Variables

highlight_class8 = defining subroutine

highlight_class9 = using subroutine

Smilies Settings

These are the settings for using custom smilies.

Note: There are no Built-in smilies.

$aubbc->smiley_hash();

This is how you import your custom smilies hash.

example:

  use AUBBC;
  my $aubbc = AUBBC->new();
  my %smiley = (lol => 'lol.gif');
  $aubbc->smiley_hash(%smiley);

The way you use this smiley is [lol]

Must have the images_url set to the proper location.

images_url/smilies/lol.gif

Build your own tags

These are the settings and methods for using custom tags.

$aubbc->add_build_tag(name=>'stuff', pattern=>'stuff' , type=>'stuff', function=>'stuff',...);

name - will be the tags name and is limited to a-z 0-9 - _

pattern - limited to 'all' or 'l,n,-,:,_,s'

    'all' = anything but [ or ]
    'l' = 'a-z'
    'n' = '0-9'
    's' = ' '
    '-' = '-'
    ':' = ':'
    '_' = '_'

type - 1 is style [name://pattern], 2 is style [name]pattern[/name], 3 is style [name], the next setting for type the function will not be used to run Perl subroutines and will replace the text with what text is defined in the function setting, the setting is type 4 this will use style [name] but will work different then the other built settings see function below on how type 4 works

function - a pre-defined subroutine that receives the matched pattern, tag name and returns what you want, unless type is set to 4 then it will replace the tag with what text is in the function.

   Note: if the function returns undefined, '' or 0 the tag will not be changed.

level - the array number of the security level

error - the text or HTML to show if user has no access

        Note: For the build tags leaving the variables blank will default level to 0 and
        error to the $AUBBC::BAD_MESSAGE string.

Usage:

  package My_Message;

  use AUBBC;
  my $aubbc = AUBBC->new();

  $aubbc->add_build_tag(
        name     => 'ok',
        pattern  => 'l,s',
        type     => 1,
        function => 'My_Message::check_ok_tag',
        );
  $aubbc->add_build_tag(
        name     => 'ip',
        pattern  => '',
        type     => 3,
        function => 'My_Message::get_some_tag',
        );
  $aubbc->add_build_tag(
        name     => 'agent',
        pattern  => '',
        type     => 3,
        function => 'My_Message::get_some_tag',
        );
  $aubbc->add_build_tag(
        name     => 'hello',
        pattern  => '',
        type     => 4,
        function => 'Hello World!',
        );
  my $message = '[ok://test me] [ok://test other] [ok://n0 w00rk] [ip] [agent] [hello]';

  $message = $aubbc->do_all_ubbc($message);

  print $message;

  sub check_ok_tag {
  my ($tag_name, $text_from_AUBBC) = @_;

   if ($text_from_AUBBC eq 'test me') {
        return 'Works Good 1';
        }
         else {
               return 'Works Good 2';
               }
  }

  sub get_some_tag {
  my ($tag_name, $text_from_AUBBC) = @_;
  $tag_name = lc($tag_name);
  $text_from_AUBBC = $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} if ($tag_name eq 'ip');
  $text_from_AUBBC = $aubbc->script_escape($ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'}) if ($tag_name eq 'agent');
  return $text_from_AUBBC;
  }

  1;

$aubbc->remove_build_tag($name, $option);

There are two ways to use this.

1) Remove a single built tag: $aubbc->remove_build_tag($name);

2) Remove all built tags: $aubbc->remove_build_tag('', 1);

Error Message

$AUBBC::BAD_MESSAGE

Default message is 'Unathorized', this message is used when the code finds bad characters in [email] or [img] tags.

Usage of this setting:

  use AUBBC;
  $AUBBC::BAD_MESSAGE = 'Unauthorized use of characters or pattern in this tag.';
  # est...

$aubbc->aubbc_error();

There are two errors for add_build_tag that would die if the wrong input was given when adding a build tag. The error message will now be stored in this method during the instance and any new tag that had an error will not be processed.

Since there is only two errors for add_build_tag you can check this method after all new tags have been added. All errors stack in this method and are seperaited by a \n newline.

Usage:

        $aubbc->aubbc_error('Insert Your Error'); # Add an error

        print $aubbc->aubbc_error();

        die $aubbc->aubbc_error() if $aubbc->aubbc_error();

Memoize

This setting can turn AUBBC's usage of Memoize on or off.

$AUBBC::MEMOIZE

Default setting 1 will check if it needs to load Memoize, if loaded then load the sub's that need the speed.

Setting 0 will not use Memoize.

Usage of this setting:

  use Memoize;
  # do other stuff...

  use AUBBC;

  # AUBBC will detect that Memoize was loaded
  # and just load the sub's that need the speed.
  my $aubbc = AUBBC->new();

  # est...

Debug

The Debug setting will send a lot of messages to warn and is not recommended to leave on all the time.

$AUBBC::DEBUG_AUBBC

Default is '' off, and Enabled is 1.

Usage of this setting:

  use AUBBC;
  $AUBBC::DEBUG_AUBBC = 1;
  # est...

Version

Returns the current version of the module.

$aubbc->version();

 Usage:

  use AUBBC;
  my $aubbc = AUBBC->new();

  my $Current_Version = $aubbc->version();

  print $Current_Version;

Bugs and Reports

Please report anything you think is a bug to bug-AUBBC [at] rt.cpan.org or shakaflex [at] gmail.com

History

v4.06 - 04/12/2011

Fixed - The hash for tag_security() needed the images and link renamed to a tag name being used. Changed the image name to img and the link to url. Read "Tag Security Levels" for more info.

Fixed - security for links was in method make_link and was causing an access issue if used outside of the module. Made a new method to check link access now the make_link method could be used outside of the module without the security access in it, as intended.

Changed - forgot to say in version 4.05 that I changed the aubbc_error so a new line will be added after each inserted error.

v4.05 - 04/05/2011

Addition - Assign security levels for links, images, built and code tags. New subroutine names: security_levels, user_level, tag_security, check_access

Changed - The default value for $AUBBC::BAD_MESSAGE is now 'Unathorized'

v4.04 - 02/05/2011

Fixed - Bug with quote tag, needed to convert all its tags.

v4.03 - 02/03/2011

Addition - New Object method aubbc_error . Developers can now controle if or when to handle errors, see the POD 'Error Message' for usage.

Fixed - All built-in tags only convert balanced tags so no unbalanced HTML can be produced

Fixed - Bug in code_highlight a highlight regex needed to be changed after version 4.01 to support the Parser style.

Improvement - Small restructure of add_build_tag and change the 'all' setting of 'pattern' to allow more.

v4.02 - 11/28/2010

Fixed - The element ID for the code download started at 1 for every instance this will force the browser to take priority to load the first ID it reads. The fix starts the counter at 'time.$$.000' to try to produce a more unique ID for each instance.

Fixed - under the code tag in do_ubbc line " $do_f[8] = '' if $do_f[8]; " should have been $do_f[9] = '' if $do_f[9];

v4.01 - 11/08/2010

Fixed - Bug that converts the true text typed to the HTML code name. All parts of the module where effected by this bug, in the code tag if the author ment & #59 ; it would show ; . This also caused a long standing bug with typing any HTML code name and saving it to a backend. this fix removes the HTML code name regex in do_unicode and had to add/move two filters in "script_escape to conver the & to an amp and ; to #59;" and "html_to_text to conver amp to & and #59 to ;". This fix also helped in allowing the regex's for highlighting subroutines to be made.

Fixed - had to add a null byte marker to escape_aubbc so the code tag's highlighter can detect the escaped character and change it back. In do_all_ubbc All markers get removed before the message is returned because FireFox can see the null bytes as an error.

Addition - Perl subroutine highlighting for the code tag highlighter. Had a problem making this till this version because a HTML code name can look like &TheName; and a Perl subroutine looked the same till ; got converted.

Addition - AUBBC::make_image($align,$src,$width,$height,$alt) this is useful enough to mention once.

v4.00 - 11/02/2010

Addition - New feature to the code tags aubbc_setting code_download. the default setting for code_download is '^Download above code^' this message will be the links name. the link will open a JavaScript pop-up window and write the code in it to be copied or printed to a printer. A new JavaScript function was added to the js_print method called MyCodePrint. JavaScript makes this feature portable and dynamic. the link for code_download is added after the code_extra setting so a disclaimer can be added before the code_download link

Addition - $AUBBC::MEMOIZE This setting can turn AUBBC's usage of Memoize on or off. Default setting 1 will check if it needs to load Memoize, if loaded then load the sub's that need the speed. Setting 0 will not use Memoize.

Addition - AUBBC::make_link($link,$name,$javascript,$target) this is useful enough to mention once.

Improvement - After lots of testing I have removed all /o in the regex. One main reason is Memoize provides enough speed.

v3.13 - 09/30/2010

Addition - do_ubbc New built-in tag [list][*=1]... [*]... [/list], This will follow XHTML or HTML Transitional element style and XHTML or HTML Strict will not support the elements that tag [*=1] in the [list] will produce (use the other enumerated List Block tags for XHTML or HTML Strict).

Addition - do_ubbc New built-in tag [em]Hello[/em]

Addition - New value for setting line_break 2 for old <br style. This effects script_escape.

Addition - This module now uses Memoize for a massive speed improvement. If you thought it was fast before, I hope your sitting down when you bench this version. LOL

Addition - added setting highlight_function to replace the highlighting method of AUBBC with a costume one.

Fixed - in do_ubbc the line breaks was invalidating HTML for List Block elements

Improvement - in do_all_ubbc changed defining $msg each time. there could have been a bug in past versions if an undefined variable was used after a defined message was converted. was going to allow do_all_ubbc to pass the last message but decided other people may see that as a bug.

Improvement - in do_all_ubbc moved if $do_flag[4] for no_bypass to a better spot

Improvement - in do_all_ubbc moved if for for_links to a better spot

Improvement - changed tags left,right and center to only convert balanced tags

v3.00 - 09/14/2010

Improvement - made it balls to the wall faster.

v2.21 - 09/09/2010 16:32:34

Fixed - -withoutworldwriteables, bug with making an archive on windows to PAUSE.

v2.20 - 09/08/2010 19:40:55

Addition - in examples folder there is a bench.pl to test the speed and support of all the Perl BBcode modules. BBCode::Parser Parse::BBCode HTML::BBCode HTML::BBReverse

Fixed - fixed a line break and new line sandbox bug

Improvement - Massive speed improvement to the hole module and no features lost. changed new for faster loading, the module uses vars for some variables, re-spaced the hole code.

v2.10 - 08/31/2010 11:17:13

Addition - adding type 4 to add_build_tag this will use style 3 but will work different then the other built functions. Type 4 will print the text defined in function and not point to a defined Perl subroutine.

Addition - added line_break setting to have control over the script_escape and html_to_text methods converting html line break <br> and new line \n

Addition - added fix_amp this setting finds all the & that need to covert to the amp; html code name so the w3c xhtml validation checks ok.

Addition - added no_img this setting will allow some control for using [img] tags for security reasons

Fixed - bug in settings_prep when a setting gets changed html_type could change

Fixed - Better support for XHTML 1.0 Strict for some tags having issues in do_ubbc

Fixed - in do_ubbc the [url] tag produces a bug if a link is used as a name the fix converts the period and/or colon of the name so its not seen as a new link.

Improvement - in do_unicode removed then changed the two regexs to do a 3 in 1 filter.

Improvement - in html_to_text added a code to fix a <br> bug if ppl use html or xhtml line break.

Improvement - moved the pattern building code from do_build_tag to add_build_tag so it only runs one time

Improvement - in add_build_tag using a hash array to store the build tag data so there is no need to use split in do_build_tag

Improvement - in do_all_ubbc moved script_escape to a location where one call to the function is needed

Improvement - in do_all_ubbc added check for undefined "$message" variable

Improvement - in script_escape added check for undefined "$text" variable

Improvement - in html_to_text added check for undefined "$html" variable

Improvement - in escape_aubbc converting the brackets one time with the html code name so the filter will only need to run one time in do_all_ubbc. This also fixes one bug in escape_aubbc

Removed - In script_escape removed the \cM regex, it is very rare that anyone will need it so it wont be missed.

v2.0 - 10/07/2008 13:52:11

Fixed single tag [name] for build tags

Changed the regex in plain URL's

Removed bad patter setting and now using a more standard way to detect bad image tags

Fixed dynamic view in XHTML for the protect email method.

Added js_print method which will print out the javascript needed for the new protect email method

Added values for the code highlighter so it can support CSS classes

Added highlighting of variables and changed 2 quote regex to allow multi line quotes

and a few other things that make this 2.0

v1.30 - 09/08/2008 14:12:10

Fixed the function check in add_build_tag(), when the 1.20 changes where made this check was neglected

Edited add_build_tag() Error messages, hopefully they make more sense.

Now add_build_tag() name allows - and _ in it.

v1.20 - 09/07/2008 09:23:09

Fixed bug that bypassed utf tag converter if square bracket wasn't detected

Fixed Makefile.PL

v1.10 - 09/02/2008 09:49:46

Added two more tags [big]..[/big] and [small]..[/small].

Removed utf tag style [ux23] and [u://0931] to make more tag names available.

Changed add_build_tag() to use hash variable, see "Build your own tags" for the new style.

Changed the way functions should work for built tags, the custom function for built tags will receive the tag name and data of the tag. This is so one function can handle many tags.

Removed other site tags and setting other_sites_pattern, an example of them are in "Build your own tags"

Removed [time] tag, example in "Build your own tags".

Email now allows names with & sign

Now every message that is passed to do_all_ubbc() gets escaped before being returned if script_escape is Enabled.

All tags in %AUBBC_TAGS will only convert if lowercase.

"new" now uses the most standard referenced object method.

Removed DOS_prevent() method, since the script has been tested more and was causing a timing problem.

Removed [cd]#code[/cd] code tag, which had no code_class or code_extra.

Commented bad_pattern check for [email] tags, this security check is not needed because the next line will take care of all email tag security.

Added missing $AUBBC{image_border}, $AUBBC{html_type} and $AUBBC{image_wrap} to the none icon image.

Changed names of left and right align images to [left_img]..[/img] and [right_img]..[/img], also updated examples to show tags.

Added missing $AUBBC{html_type} to quote, code tags and code_highlight function.

v1.0 01/20/2008 08:46:08

Released.

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AUBBC.pm, v4.06 - 04/12/2011 By: N.K.A.

Advanced Universal Bulletin Board Code a Perl BBcode API

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http://search.cpan.org/~sflex/

http://aubbc.googlecode.com/

Development Notes: Highlighting functions list and tags/commands for more language highlighters. Ideas make some new tags like [perl] or have a command in the code tag like [code]perl:$some ='perl';[/code] with a default highlighting method if a command was not used. Then highlighting of many types of code could be allowed even markup like HTML.

Notes: This code has a lot of settings and works good with most default settings see the POD and example files in the archive for usage.