I've discovered this problem after I made a fix for the compatability problems I had using the forum on mySQL version 3.23.58. Read my posting (Chapter 15 problems) a few days ago.

This problem is with the bbcode function in functions.php
Again! This was a compatability problem, but this time it's PHP. I'm running PHP 4.1.2 and html_entity_decode() is a PHP 4.3 function.

Well I've tried to build a fix for it using:

function unhtmlentities($string)
{
   $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
   $trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl);
   return strtr($string, $trans_tbl);
}

function bbcode($data) {

...

      $bbcode['tpl'][] =
        "§" . unhtmlentities($row['template'],ENT_QUOTES). "§i";
      $bbcode['rep'][] =
        unhtmlentities($row['replacement'],ENT_QUOTES);
    }

...

Here's my complete code:

function unhtmlentities($string)
{
   $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
   $trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl);
   return strtr($string, $trans_tbl);
}

function bbcode($data) {
  $sql = "SELECT * FROM forum_bbcode";
  $result = mysql_query($sql);
  if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
      $bbcode['tpl'][] =
        "§" . unhtmlentities($row['template'],ENT_QUOTES). "§i";
      $bbcode['rep'][] =
        unhtmlentities($row['replacement'],ENT_QUOTES);
    }
    $data1 = preg_replace($bbcode['tpl'],$bbcode['rep'],$data);
    $count = 1;
    while (($data1 != $data) and ($count < 4)) {
      $count++;
      $data = $data1;
      $data1 = preg_replace($bbcode['tpl'],$bbcode['rep'],$data);
    }
  }

  return $data;
}

And here's the original function:

function bbcode($data) {
  $sql = "SELECT * FROM forum_bbcode";
  $result = mysql_query($sql);
  if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
      $bbcode['tpl'][] =
        "§" . html_entity_decode($row['template'],ENT_QUOTES). "§i";
      $bbcode['rep'][] =
        html_entity_decode($row['replacement'],ENT_QUOTES);
    }
    $data1 = preg_replace($bbcode['tpl'],$bbcode['rep'],$data);
    $count = 1;
    while (($data1 != $data) and ($count < 4)) {
      $count++;
      $data = $data1;
      $data1 = preg_replace($bbcode['tpl'],$bbcode['rep'],$data);
    }
  }

  return $data;
}

Now here's my problem:
I'm getting this error on each thread's sub thread:

Warning: Compilation failed: missing terminating ] for character class at offset 22 in /removed/forum/functions.php on line 355

Can anyone explain why I would have a missing (])

PS. I don't know why the original has (ÂÂ) but that's not my problem!

I've managed to solve the problem I mentioned earlier!

The problem wasn't with the script I wrote. The script works fine!

What I'd done was to systematically replace all the single quotes in admin.php (and all the pages) with escaped double quotes (\"). Well! doing this in the form values meant that the wrong characters were being escaped.

So I corrected my code to be:

          "<input class=\"mono\" type=\"text\" name=\"bbcode_t". $k . "\" " .
          "value='" . $v['template'] . "' size=\"32\">" .
          "</td>\n<td>" .
          "<input class=\"mono\" type=\"text\" name=\"bbcode_r". $k . "\" " .
          "value='" . $v['replacement'] . "' size=\"32\">" .

Everything now works fine!

Phil, thank you so much for posting this and your other chapter 15 fixes.

I am running PHP 4.3.8 and MySQL 3.23.56 and so I had the obvious problems from not having MySQL 4. And I also had the problem mentioned in this thread, but your first post fixed it.

Thanks so much!!! ;)