How can PHP developers handle the conflict between enabling links and using BBCode in their scripts?

To handle the conflict between enabling links and using BBCode in PHP scripts, developers can use regular expressions to parse the input and selectively enable links while preserving the BBCode formatting. 

// Function to parse input text and selectively enable links while preserving BBCode
function parseInput($input) {
    // Enable links
    $input = preg_replace('/\[url\](.*?)\[\/url\]/', '<a href="$1">$1</a>', $input);
    
    // Preserve other BBCode formatting
    $input = preg_replace('/\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]/', '<strong>$1</strong>', $input);
    $input = preg_replace('/\[i\](.*?)\[\/i\]/', '<em>$1</em>', $input);
    
    return $input;
}

// Example usage
$input = "[b]Hello[/b] check out my website: [url]https://www.example.com[/url]";
echo parseInput($input);

Keywords

PHP BBCode links conflict resolution script development

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