BBcode for facebook @ Tag

[wolvertoon]

Hi everyone I was wandering on facebook it has a @ tag feature for example @antione tony it goes straight to my profile or @ravenwood fair I dont wanna use a external url just a insite url that uses the @ tag say on my site my name there is mrsaucy but have click links and links would be nice all around the site to have a msg box or whatever to put @mrsaucy then it goes straight to my profile or @inbox @extras @forums etc how would I possibily do that I have no idea how to link it within a site I use php and html only did look at the api facebook but It looked alien to me had a attempt but give up as it was too hard lol any ideas would be fantastic thanks very much

[MuniGod]

Something like that maybe..

$text = str_replace ( "@inbox", '<a href="we_go_to_inbox.php?blablabla">Inbox</a>', $text );
$text = str_replace ( "@extras", '<a href="we_go_to_extras.php?blablabla">Extras</a>', $text );

[wolvertoon]

Thankyou munigod for your reply and answer , I will certernly try that out in a minute what about profile @mrsaucy ,would I use
$text = str_replace ( "@$who", '<a href=\"./profile.php?who=$who&amp;sid=$sid\">Go to $who profile</a> ', $text ); to find a certain member im searching for, in Bbcode function Thanks

[nclemale36]

heres what i made for my mine

$text = preg_replace("/\[user\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/user\]/is","<a href=\"index.php?action=viewuser&amp;who=$1&amp;sid=$sid\">$2</a>",$text);

works like normal bbcode GumSlone only thing is it uses id numbers and not the nick name.

[wolvertoon]

Thanks again MuniGod its all sorted works perfect and Thankyou very much Dave gives me another Idea aswell your a star cheers

[MuniGod]

Thankyou munigod for your reply and answer , I will certernly try that out in a minute what about profile @mrsaucy ,would I use
$text = str_replace ( "@$who", '<a href=\"./profile.php?who=$who&amp;sid=$sid\">Go to $who profile</a> ', $text ); to find a certain member im searching for, in Bbcode function Thanks

You can something like:

if ( preg_match ( "#@([a-zA-Z0-9]+)#i", $text, $match ) )
{
	$res = mysql_fetch_array ( mysql_query ( "SELECT user_id FROM table WHERE username='". mysql_real_escape_string ( $match [ 1 ] ) ."'" ) );
	if ( $res [ 'user_id' ] > 0 )
	{
		$text = preg_replace ( "#@([a-zA-Z0-9]+)#i", "<a href=\"index.php?action=viewuser&amp;who=". $res [ 'user_id' ] ."&amp;sid=$sid\">\\2</a>", $text );
	}
}

I don't know or this works. But you should understand the principle.

[pmbguy]

check in thebbcodes post i put up in the coding forum... i goit a bbcode for basically that exact function... @username profile linking...