So I used Regular Expressions to find the HTML tags of my web content and replace those tags wtih BBCode tags. You can read the phpBB BBCode user guide here: įor my situation, I was converting from a custom Content Management System (CMS) to my phpBB forum. I realized the best, fastest and easiest solution for me was to use the BBCodes instead of uploading attachment files.
Nor did I want to install and test attachment MODs and fix the bugs. I obviously didn't want to spend months uploading attachment images/files one at a time to my topics/posts. It takes a single $_FILES field array as a parameter and separates each individual uploaded file by numeric key.Here's a solution I used when I had THOUSANDS of image and document files that I needed to add to topics/posts in my forums. Here is a function to fix the indices of a multi-dimensional for easier parsing when dealing with file uploads. I wrote a quick function that would convert the $_FILES array to the cleaner (IMHO) array.
I found it made for a little cleaner code if I had the uploaded files array in the form
When uploading multiple files, the $_FILES variable is created in the form:
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