[Help Need] For WP-Forum Plugin

[Phunky]

Im sure theres a way to use the built in formatting plugins of WordPress, i need to parse my forum posts content thru the same things the comments use? I assume its some form of hook/action? but i have no idea what!

Im currently just being a mess and using

$post = $thread->post ;
$post = wp_specialchars($post);
$post = clean_pre($post);
$post = wpautop($post);
$post = wptexturize($post);
$post = convert_smilies($post);

But this is not what i wish to use! plus the wp_specialchars blocks all HTML

Can anyone point me in the right direction?!

[Phunky]

? anyone ?

[Firas]

Try asking in wp-hackers.

Actually, it may just be an apply_filters() issue.

[Mark Jaquith]

yes, apply_filters() to the rescue.

$post = apply_filters('the_content', $thread->post);

that will apply all the filters that the_content() usually has applied.

[Phunky]

Arrr thanks i shall give that a go

[Phunky]

Any idea what filters used for the comments? i assume it one used before they submit the content to the database?

[viper007bond]

Very little is done to any content before it’s placed into the database. It’s on the way out where the filters are applied.

Default filters are listed in /wp-includes/default-filters.php.

[Phunky]

Even for comments? Surely it would make sense to remove the un-allowed tags before adding the comments to the database, so that it reduces the database file size.

[viper007bond]

Yes, unallowed tags are stripped before insertation.

Comments are inserted into the database via wp_new_comment() which is located in /wp-includes/functions-post.php. Check out what it does.

[Phunky]

Yeh thought as much, found the filter “pre_comment_content” which strips all i dont need

http://eurocss.net/forum.php if anyone wants to go have a look. Still early alpha mind you!