The First Friday Club

What is Board code?

 

A Quick Guide to Board Code.

 

Board code is special tags which allow you to format your messages.

 

Currently, The First Friday Club forums support links, bold, italic,"quoted text", images, font resizing, bullet points, lists and coloured text.

 

 

General Tags are code for bulletin board software. Because normal programming code html, PHP, xml etc can in some circumstances open up the site to being attacked or hacked a non language specific syntax was created which allows you to format your bulletin board posts, which is inert and can be stored in a Database without corrupting the original code. This is called Board code.

 

Generally speaking all Board code will start with opening square brackets [Like This] and the text to be formatted will go in between the opening tag. The Statement will then end with a closing tag which is square brackets with a forward slash after the opening bracket [/Like This].

 

All Board code or BBC (Bulletin Board Code = not the home service!). works on this principal.

 

• General tags
• How to change the text colour or size
• Lists and Bullet points
• Links
• Quoting people in posts
• Quoting Code in a Post
• Adding attachments into a post
• Can I combine formatting tags?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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General tags

 

The General tags are used to format the main text of your post:

 

• To make your text Bold use [b] Text to be changed here [/b]
• To make your text Italic use [i] Text to be changed here [/i]
• To make your text Underline use [u] Text to be changed here [/u]
• To make your text Resize use [size=4] Text to be changed here [/size]
• To show an image use [img]http://www.The_Link_to_Your_image.com[/img]
• Please remember your images can only be a maximum width of 499 pixels.

   

 

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How to change the text colour or size

 

To alter the colour or size of your text the following tags can be used. Keep in mind that how the output appears will depend on the viewers browser and system:
Changing the colour of text is achieved by wrapping it in [color=][/color]. You can specify either a recognised colour name (e.g. red, blue, yellow, etc.) or the hexadecimal triplet alternative, e.g. #FFFFFF, #000000. For example, to create red text you could use:

 

[color=red]Hello![/color]

 

or

 

[color=#FF0000]Hello![/color]

 

Both will output Hello!

 

Changing the text size is achieved in a similar way using [size=][/size]. This tag is dependent on the template the user has selected but the recommended format is a numerical value representing the text size in percent, starting at 20 (very small) through to 200 (very large) by default.

 

For example:

 

[size=30]SMALL[/size]

 

will generally be SMALL

 

whereas:

 

[size=200]HUGE![/size]

 

will be HUGE!

 

 

 

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Lists and Bullet points

 

A basic unordered bullet pointed list can be made by typing in the following.

 

[list]

 

[*]item 1

 

[/list]

 

Which will produce an unordered list, but please keep in mind you'll have to insert the [list] tag around the list items. See the example below:

 

[list] [*]item 1 [*]item 2 [*]item 3 [/list]	item 1 item 2 item 3
The [list=1] tag will produce an ordered List (Numerically ordered):
[list=1] [*]]item A [*]item B [*]item C [/list]	item A item B item C
The [list=a] tag will produce an ordered List (Alphabetically ordered):
[list=a] [*]item A [*]item B [*]item C [/list]	item A item B item C

 

 

 

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Links

 

To make a link in your post you can simply paste the link directly into the post where it will be auto-formatted or you can format it yourself:

 

[url]http://www.thefirstfriday.co.uk[/url] will produce http://www.thefirstfriday.co.uk

 

This is the boards default for producing Links in posts.

 

You can further format the code to produce in line links which don't break up your content which will look like this:

 

[url=http://www.thefirstfriday.co.uk]The First Friday Club[/url] will produce The First Friday Club in your content.

 

Additionally, our forum features something called Magic Links, this will turn any syntactically correct link into a link without you needing to specify any tags or even the leading http://. For example typing www.thefirstfriday.co.uk into your message will automatically lead to www.thefirstfriday.co.uk being output when you view the message.

 

The same thing applies equally to e-mail addresses, you can either specify an address explicitly for example:

 

[email] This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it [/email]

 

which will output This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or you can just type This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it into your message and it will be automatically converted when you view.

 

 

 

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Quoting people in posts

 

[quote]Quoted Text[/quote] will allow you to quote any subject either the previous posters comments, someone famous or relevant to the topic of debate.

 

As with the [url] and [img] tags you can add further parameters to the tag which give further information.

 

[quote="Bob Marley"][/quote] would allow you to produce a quote which looked like this:

 

Originally Posted by: Bob Marley I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

 

Remember you must include the quotation marks "" around the name you are quoting, they are not optional.

 

The second method allows you to blindly quote something. To utilise this enclose the text in [quote]Quoted Text[/quote] tags. When you view the message it will simply show the text within a quotation block.

 

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

 

 

 

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Quoting Code in a Post

 

As previously explained the bulletin boards could be affected by rogue code staying into it's path which means if you have an error or a problem posting up the code could result in even more problems for the site.

 

In this instance please use the Code tag in order to prevent this from happening which looks like this:

 

[code] Some code here [/code] which will produce this:

 

Code:

//Some code here while ($incident=='club') {    barred(threeMonth); }

 

All formatting used within [code][/code] tags is retained when you later view it. PHP syntax highlighting can be enabled using [code=php][/code] and is recommended when posting PHP code samples as it improves readability.

 

 

 

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Adding attachments into a post

 

Attachments can now be placed in any part of a post by using the [attachment=][/attachment] BBCode. Within the posting screen is a drop-down box (respectively a button) for placing attachments inline.

 

 

 

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Can I combine formatting tags?

 

Yes, of course you can, for example to get someone's attention you may write:

 

[size=200][color=red][b]LOOK AT ME![/b][/color][/size]

 

this would output LOOK AT ME!

 

We don’t recommend you output lots of text that looks like this though! Remember it is up to you, the poster, to ensure tags are closed correctly. If opened with a tag it must be closed again in the same instance.

 

For example the following is incorrect:

 

[b][u]This is wrong[/b][/u]

 

It should be:

 

[b][u]This is correct[/u][/b]

 

As the opening tag was [b] which has to be ended after the following [u] tag.

 

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