The BBCode Sandbox is currently _NOT_ available. Big possibility that I'm not going to spend time on constructing the sandbox model of it. Doing this, it's like making a lite version from a pro version in a piece of software, which is kinda hmm... redundant ? After all I'm not making profit from it or sell it. So why ? :p

Although the sandbox is not available, I can still show you the evolved version...well, sort of... It's not standalone anymore, the BBCode part is integrated with a blogging system which I'm using it to publish my blog entries. The blogging system's interface looks very similar to those found in vBulletin, phpBB powered discussion forums because I "stole" some of their desgin / coding ;) However, the core part is still done by me. It's pretty similar to the process of posting on forums, except the process of posting a post is changed to posting a blog entry. Features are alike too, smiley, source code highlight, stick entry, add/edit/previewing/delete, etc.

After cracking my head for while, I finally came up with D's Bloggie as the name for the blogging system. The name sounds stupid and common and etc but I'm lazy to think a new one...

The complete BBCode list and examples. The result's are rendered real-time.

You can view the BBCode manual.

• - Added another new option 'longdesc' for [img] tag --- 2007.03.31
• - Major updates on the BBCode manual (document layout, clean up, document generation) --- 2007.03.31
• - Added 2 more options for [img] tag : 'noborder', 'simple' --- 2007.02.26
• - Minor updates on the BBCode manual --- 2007.02.26
• - (Blogging interface) Fixed javascript problem that causes weird cursor position in IE/Firefox --- 2007.05.09
• - More updates on BBCode manual --- 2007.05.09
• - (Blogging interface) Started to use AJAX on some operations (eg. romanization and sanitization on blog title to create a string suitable for permalink) --- 2007.05.27
• - Added new [acronym] tag --- 2007.06.03

• ! Multibyte-safe parser and related classes since the site's default encoding is changed to UTF-8 (from ISO-8859-1) -- 2006.06.10
• ! Changes on the BBCode parser's rendering/parsing part. Right now using 2 phase parse instead of single phase. 2 phase parsing is a more "clean" way to deal with certain tags like [code], [nobb] etc
• + New [table] tag. This tag is inspired by the Wiki Table using pipe syntax. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table -- 2006.06.12
• + Check the wellformedness of the content -- 2006.06.12
• + Allow dumping the raw structure for specific entry -- 2006.06.12
• + [code] Tag: Rewrote major part for this tag. Syntax changed. New attributes 'lang' 'linenum' 'nojs' 'title'. Now individual code snippet/fragment has their own options to highlight, show line number and etc. All this is done by setting the attributes in the [code] tag instead of controlling via settings of individual blog entry.
• + [url] Tag: Added a new attribute 'external' 'local' 'clean'. Originally needed 4 regex matching (include [lurl] tag), now simplified down to 1 regex matching only
• + [img] Tag: Rewrote almost the whole part for this tag. Syntax changed. Now support flexible attributes such as image position(left,right,center), image size, additional caption, image thumbnail. Inspired from Wikipedia.
• - New [left], [right] tag for text alignment
• - New [bquote] tag for blockquoting
• - New [pre] tag for preformatted text
• - New [nobb] tag for disabling bbcode parsing on certain context
• - Dropped [lurl] tag. Use the 'local' attribute in [url] instead
• - Dropped a markup tag that uses regex "===(.+)?==="
• - Added new smiley icons, also dropped/renamed a few ones
• - In this new update, anchor links from an image can be achieved with [img=pic.jpg|link=somewhere.html]. In previous version, this can only be archieved with [link=somwhere.html][img][/img][/link]
• - %WEBLOG% now points to a new folder path to avoid confusion between the virtual rewrote url and actual path
• - Dropped the 'Highlight Coding' option in the create blog page as a result affected by the changes of [code] tag

• ! Rewrote the whole core part for the editor that uses Javascript. Compatible with modern Opera/IE/Gecko/Mozilla based browser.
• ! Redesign the posting interface
• + BBTags can now be inserted at cursor position instead of appending them to the end
• + Supports inserting BBTags to the beginning/end of a selection/highlighted text.
• + Packed all the BBTags button in a toolbar-like form with the ability to show/hide extra buttons
• + Added "Description" and "Allow Comments"
• + With "Allow Comments" option, specific blog entry can now be locked and not allowing public comment posting
• + Changed the way how sticky/hidden attributes are handled. They now fall under "Post status" with (Publish, Sticky, Draft, Hidden)
• + Added option to change the timestamp for an existing post
• + Added the BBCode manual and example
• - New attribute for [img] tag. You can control width and height of an image.
• - New [center] tag
• - New [rainbow] tag
• - Dropped [quote2] tag and replace it with [box]
• - Minor cosmetic changes to the rendering result
• - Fixed hell lots of minor bugs

• + Named D's Bloggie
• + Added file upload/browsing
• + %WEBLOG% is introduced for pointing to weblog's data folder (allowing the folder path to change dynamically in config)
• - It's again integrated under admin's control panel with others functions like comment management
• - Cosmetic updates on the interface
• - Seperate [previewing in add new mode] and [previewing in edit mode] allowing more detailed info to be displayed
• - Fixed some buggy BBCode parsing (eg. [code] [list] tag)
• - Fixed misc minor bug

• - The "usable" and more stable version compare to beta version
• - Supports BB tag, smiley and source code highlight
• - Allows previewing on the fly
• - Supports sticky blog entry

• - Minimal fuctions and interface
• - Still not practical and safe for posting blog entry

Below are the screen shots of D's Bloggie and the rendered result.

D's Bloggie v3.0

D's Bloggie v2.0

D's Bloggie v1.0