BB CODE - ADDING IMAGES AND FORMATTING YOUR POSTS

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:28 pm

HTML IS NOT ALLOWED ON OUR FORUMS, WE USE BBCODE INSTEAD. WHAT FOLLOWS IS GENERAL INFO AS FOUND REGARDING BBCODE AND IT'S USES IN OUR FORUMS, AS FOUND AT:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/faq.php?mode=bbcode

PART 1. WHAT IS BBCODE?

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What is BBCode?
BBCode is a special implementation of HTML. Whether you can actually use BBCode in your posts on the forum is determined by the administrator. In addition you can disable BBCode on a per post basis via the posting form. BBCode itself is similar in style to HTML, tags are enclosed in square brackets [ and ] rather than < and > and it offers greater control over what and how something is displayed. Depending on the template you are using you may find adding BBCode to your posts is made much easier through a clickable interface above the message area on the posting form. Even with this you may find the following guide useful.

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:33 pm

PART 2. BOLD, ITALIC, and UNDERLINED TEXT

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BBCode includes tags to allow you to quickly change the basic style of your text. This is achieved in the following ways:
To make a piece of text bold enclose it in [b][/b], e.g.

[b]Hello[/b]

will become Hello

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For underlining use [u][/u], for example:

[u]Good Morning[/u]

becomes Good Morning

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To italicise text use [i][/i], e.g.

This is [i]Great![/i]

would give This is Great!

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:39 pm

PART 3. TEXT COLOR AND SIZE

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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 (eg. 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!

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Changing the text size is achieved in a similar way using [size=][/size]. This tag starting at 7 (very small) through to 24 (very large) on this site. For example:

[size=7]SMALL[/size]

will generally be SMALL

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whereas:

[size=24]HUGE![/size]

will be HUGE!

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:06 pm

PART 4. QUOTING TEXT

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There are two ways you can quote text, with a reference or without.
When you utilise the Quote function to reply to a post on the board you should notice that the post text is added to the message window enclosed in a [quote=""][/quote] block. This method allows you to quote with a reference to a person or whatever else you choose to put! For example to quote a piece of text Mr. Blobby wrote you would enter:

[quote="Mr. Blobby"]The text Mr. Blobby wrote would go here[/quote]

The resulting output will automatically add "Mr. Blobby wrote:" before the actual text. 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][/quote] tags. When you view the message it will simply show the text within a quotation block.

you can also use the quote button next to the post you want to quote....

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:10 pm

PART 5. ADDING CODE

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If you want to output a piece of code or in fact anything that requires a fixed width, e.g. Courier type font you should enclose the text in [code][/code] tags, e.g.

[code]echo "This is some code";[/code]

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:13 pm

PART 6. UNORDERED LISTS

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BBCode supports two types of lists, unordered and ordered. They are essentially the same as their HTML equivalents. An unordered list outputs each item in your list sequentially one after the other indenting each with a bullet character. To create an unordered list you use [list][/list] and define each item within the list using [*]. For example to list your favourite colours you could use:

[list]
[*]Red
[*]Blue
[*]Yellow
[/list]

This would generate the following list:

Red
Blue
Yellow

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:16 pm

PART 7. ORDERED LISTS

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The second type of list, an ordered list, gives you control over what is output before each item. To create an ordered list you use [list=1][/list] to create a numbered list or alternatively [list=a][/list] for an alphabetical list. As with the unordered list, items are specified using [*]. For example:

[list=1]
[*]Go to the shops
[*]Buy a new computer
[*]Swear at computer when it crashes
[/list]

Go to the shops
Buy a new computer
Swear at computer when it crashes

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Whereas for an alphabetical list you would use:

[list=a]
[*]The first possible answer
[*]The second possible answer
[*]The third possible answer
[/list]

giving

The first possible answer
The second possible answer
The third possible answer

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:30 pm

PART 8. ADDING LINKS

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phpBB BBCode supports a number of ways of creating URIs (Uniform Resource Indicators) better known as URLs.
The first of these uses the [url=][/url] tag, whatever you type after the = sign will cause the contents of that tag to act as a URL. For example to link to phpBB.com you could use:

[url=http://www.phpbb.com/]Visit phpBB![/url]

This would generate the following link, Visit phpBB! Please notice that the link opens in the same window or a new window depending on the users browser preferences.
If you want the URL itself displayed as the link you can do this by simply using:

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[url]http://www.phpbb.com/[/url]

This would generate the following link, http://www.phpbb.com/
Additionally, phpBB features something called Magic Links, this will turn any syntactically correct URL into a link without you needing to specify any tags or even the leading http://. For example typing www.phpbb.com into your message will automatically lead to www.phpbb.com 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:

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[email]no.one@domain.adr[/email]

which will output no.one@domain.adr or you can just type no.one@domain.adr into your message and it will be automatically converted when you view.

WARNING: IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED YOU PUBLISH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS. NUMEROUS METHODS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO BLOCK SITE RIPPERS AND SPAM BOTS, HOWEVER AXIS-AND-ALLIES.COM CANNOT GUARANTEE THE PRIVACY OF ANY EMAIL ADDRESS PUBLISHED ON OUR FORUMS. DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAMBOTS FILL IN THE FAKE EMAIL ON YOUR FORUMS PROFILE WITH A BOGUS ADDRESS.

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As with all the BBCode tags you can wrap URLs around any of the other tags such as [img][/img] (see next entry), [b][/b], etc. As with the formatting tags it is up to you to ensure the correct open and close order is following, for example:

[url=http://www.google.com/][img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/url][/img]

is not correct which may lead to your post being deleted so take care.

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:36 pm

PART 9. ADDING IMAGES

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phpBB BBCode incorporates a tag for including images in your posts. Two very important things to remember when using this tag are: many users do not appreciate lots of images being shown in posts and secondly the image you display must already be available on the internet (it cannot exist only on your computer for example, unless you run a webserver!). To display an image you must surround the URL pointing to the image with [img][/img] tags. For example:

[img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img]

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As noted in the URL section above you can wrap an image in a [url][/url] tag if you wish, e.g.

[url=http://www.google.com/] [img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img] [/url]

would generate:

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:06 pm

When using multiple BB tags put spaces inbetween them, such as

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[url=http://www.google.com] [img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img] [/url]

instead of

[url=http://www.google.com][img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img][/url]

Note the spaces before [img] and after [/img]

Not required but seems to help with some errors.

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:21 pm

CAN I EMBED A MOVIE IN MY POST, OR USE A FLASH SIGNATURE?NO, AND NO. BOTH FEATURES ARE NOT AVAILABLE DUE TO SECURITY IMPLICATIONS. IF YOU ATTEMPT TO ANYWAY SECURITY MAY BAN YOU FROM THE SITE, SO DON'T. IF YOU HAVE AN AXIS and ALLIES RELATED VIDEO WORTHY OF BEING ON THE SITE, PM ME WITH THE INFO

CAN I CENTER OR JUSTIFY-RIGHT IMAGES OR TEXT?
NO, EVERYTHING IS JUSTIFY-LEFT BY DEFAULT AND CANNOT BE CHANGED IN THE DEFAULT BB CODE

HOW DO I FIND THE ADDRESS OF AN IMAGE?
To put an image in a post you need its URL (address on the web) To get the url of any image on the web:

Find the image,
Right-click the image and choose "Properties"
Copy the information marked "Location" "URL" or "Address"

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:14 pm

A few new features have been added since those days, let me take a moment to introduce them. You can now:

Attach Files, Such as Images

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:21 pm

As well as any files you can archive into
ace gtar gz rar tar zip
formats, such as maps, game films, etc...

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:53 pm

Add YouTube and Google Video

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwAuSY-yxjY[/youtube]

Link

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:10 pm

Here's a dummies guide for adding YouTube, you pretty much follow the same process for Google video... These features are only available on the "new topic" and "post reply" page [not in the "quick reply"]

YouTube Video
Step1
On every YouTube page you find an URL, copy it. It's also displayed in the address bar when your at that page Smile

Step 2
Click the YouTube button on the post reply or new topic page

Step 3
Enter URL and click OK... DONE!!!!!

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:52 am