Topic: Adding [nbsp] (non-breaking space) to the BBCode parser (SMF patch) (Read 612 times)

A non-breaking space is a way to prevent a piece of text from "breaking" into multiple parts when there's not enough room for it to fit comfortably. This can be useful when formatting tables (I first proposed it here: Re: Gangs of BitcoinTalk). It can also be useful for signatures, too (e.g. @Royse777 could have used it recently when improving the ChipMixer signatures, [nbsp] would have worked better than [color=transparent].[/color] and could have allowed the design to remain the same; it wouldn't have been necessary to change the "{" into a "#").

Although using the Unicode character (U+00A0) directly is possible, it's much handier (and more "semantic") to make it available as a BBCode tag.

Here's a small patch for @theymos to add [nbsp] to this version of SMF:

',
  'block_level' => true,
  ),
  array(
  'tag' => 'me',
  'type' => 'unparsed_equals',
  'before' => '',
  'quoted' => 'optional',
  'block_level' => true,
  'disabled_before' => '/me ',
  'disabled_after' => '
',
  ),
  array(
  'tag' => 'move',
  'before' => '',
  'after' => '',
  'block_level' => true,
  ),
+ array(
+ 'tag' => 'nbsp',
+ 'type' => 'closed',
+ 'content' => ' ',
+ ),
  array(
  'tag' => 'nobbc',
  'type' => 'unparsed_content',
  'content' => '$1',
  ),
  array(
  'tag' => 'pre',
  'before' => '

',
 				'after' => '

',
  ),
  array(
  'tag' => 'php',
  'type' => 'unparsed_content',
  'content' => '',
  'validate' => isset($disabled['php']) ? null : create_function('&$tag, &$data, $disabled', '
  if (!isset($disabled[\'php\']))
  {
  $add_begin = substr(trim($data), 0, 5) != \'<?\';
  $data = highlight_php_code($add_begin ? \'<?php \' . $data . \'?>\' : $data);
  if ($add_begin)
  $data = preg_replace(array(\'~^(.+?)<\?.{0,40}?php( |\s)~\', \'~\?>((?:)*)$~\'), \'$1\', $data, 2);