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Wow. Thank you. I got it to work. I can't thank you enough, and you can't imagine my relief. Now to make it pretty...

Thank you HartleySan for this valuable input. I've gone through it tonight, and will try and work with it tomorrow. I'm most grateful for the help. Edit: I have found Larry's book remarkably lucid for a technical book. I don't think I would have gotten where I did with any other book. I've just had a hard time putting the knowledge into practice. Hopefully I will do much better with that in the morning.

Thanks for responding. The url tags got removed in the second code. Let's see if I can get this right with the code tag. This first piece of code will post on a webpage or in a blog, but not in a discussion forum post. <a href='http://greg-norrell.artistwebsites.com/featured/schwabacher-morning-light-greg-norrell.html' size='20'><img src='http://greg-norrell.artistwebsites.com/displayartworkartistwebsites.html?id=5164335&width=250&height=166' alt='Photography Prints' title='Photography Prints' style='border: none;'></a> When converted to BBC Code it looks like this: [url=http://greg-norrell.artistwebsites.com/featured/schwabacher-morning-light-greg-norrell.html][img alt='Photography Prints']http://greg-norrell.artistwebsites.com/displayartworkartistwebsites.html?id=5164335&width=250&height=166[/img][/url] Some forum members can handle this on their own. Most cannot. So I'm working through this book and trying to write a PHP form that will allow my forum members to paste in their links in the form at top and the script return to them code they can copy in the form at bottom.

I'm not a programmer, but manager several websites. I have a discussion forum for photographers and need to allow them to post their sales links from FineArtAmerica pages. For security reasons, forum members can't post full html code. Hence the existing FAA code needs to be converted to BBC Code for posting. I've been working through this book and I can do the examples fine. But I'm having difficulty just isolating specific URLs to make strings that a PHP script can convert. Basically I need to turn the first example code into the second: //<a href= 'http://webaddress.html' size='20'><img src='webaddress2.html?id=5164335&width=250&height=166' alt='Photography Prints' title='Photography Prints' style='border: none;'</a> http://webaddress.html][img alt=Photography Prints]http://webaddress2.html?id=5164335&width=250&height=166[/img] with the second being inside a url tag. I'm finishing Chapter 5 and trying to experiment, but so far can't isolate the urls. Any suggestions would be appreciated. - Greg