VIRUXE/phpbb_to_flarum.php

## phpbb_to_flarum.php
<?php
/*
// Original script by robrotheram from discuss.flarum.org
// Modified by VIRUXE
*/

set_time_limit(0);
ini_set('memory_limit', -1);

ini_set("log_errors", 1);
ini_set("error_log", "php-error.log");

// Configs for PHPBB database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "";
$exportDBName = "phpbb_name";
$importDBName = "flarum_name";

// Establish a connection to the server where the PHPBB database exists
$exportDbConnection = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $exportDBName);
$importDbConnection = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $importDBName);

// Check connection
if ($exportDbConnection->connect_error)
	die("Export - Connection failed: " . $exportDbConnection->connect_error);
else
{
	echo "Export - Connected successfully<br>";

	if(!$exportDbConnection->set_charset("utf8"))
	{
	    printf("Error loading character set utf8: %s\n", $exportDbConnection->error);
	    exit();
	}
	else
	    printf("Current character set: %s\n", $exportDbConnection->character_set_name());
}

if ($importDbConnection->connect_error)
	die("Import - Connection failed: " . $importDbConnection->connect_error);
else
{
	echo "Import - Connected successfully<br>";

	if(!$importDbConnection->set_charset("utf8"))
	{
	    printf("Error loading character set utf8: %s\n", $importDbConnection->error);
	    exit();
	}
	else
	    printf("Current character set: %s\n", $importDbConnection->character_set_name());
}

//Convert Users
$sqlScript = fopen('flarum_users.sql', 'w');

echo "<hr>Step 1 - Users<hr>";
$result = $exportDbConnection->query("SELECT user_id, from_unixtime(user_regdate) as user_regdate, username_clean, user_email FROM phpbb_users");
$totalUsers = $result->num_rows;
if ($totalUsers)
{
	fwrite($sqlScript, "INSERT INTO users (id, username, email, password, join_time, is_activated) VALUES \n");

	$i = 0;
	$usersIgnored = 0;
	while($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
	{
		$i++;

		if($row["user_email"] != NULL)
		{
			$username = $row["username_clean"];
			$usernameHasSpace = strpos($username, " ");

			if($usernameHasSpace > 0)
				$formatedUsername = str_replace(" ", NULL, $username);
			else
				$formatedUsername = $username;

			$valuesStr = sprintf("\t(%d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', 1)%s\n", $row["user_id"], $formatedUsername, $row["user_email"], sha1(md5(time())), $row['user_regdate'], $i == $totalUsers ? ";" : ",");
			fwrite($sqlScript, $valuesStr);
		}
		else
			$usersIgnored++;
	}
	echo $i-$usersIgnored . ' out of '. $totalUsers .' Total Users converted';
}
else
	echo "Something went wrong.";

fclose($sqlScript);

//Convert Categories to Tags
$sqlScript = fopen('flarum_tags.sql', 'w');

echo "<hr>Step 2 - Categories<hr>";
$result = $exportDbConnection->query("SELECT forum_id, forum_name, forum_desc  FROM phpbb_forums");
$totalCategories = $result->num_rows;
if ($totalCategories)
{
	fwrite($sqlScript, "INSERT INTO tags (id, name, description, slug, color, position) VALUES \n");

	$i = 1;
	while($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
	{
		$slug = slugify($row["forum_name"]);
		$valuesStr = sprintf("\t(%d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d)%s\n", $row["forum_id"], mysql_escape_mimic($row["forum_name"]), mysql_escape_mimic(strip_tags(stripBBCode($row["forum_desc"]))), mysql_escape_mimic($slug), rand_color(), $i, $i == $totalCategories ? ";" : ",");
		fwrite($sqlScript, $valuesStr);

		$i++;
	}
	echo $totalCategories . ' Categories converted.';
}
else
	echo "Something went wrong.";

fclose($sqlScript);


// Convert Topics to Discussions
$sqlScript_discussions = fopen('flarum_discussions.sql', 'w');
$sqlScript_discussions_tags = fopen('flarum_discussions_tags.sql', 'w');

echo "<hr>Step 3 - Topics<hr>";
$topicsQuery = $exportDbConnection->query("SELECT topic_id, topic_poster, forum_id, topic_title, topic_time FROM phpbb_topics ORDER BY topic_id DESC;");
$topicCount = $topicsQuery->num_rows;
if($topicCount)
{
	$curTopicCount = 0;
	$insertString = "INSERT INTO posts (id, user_id, discussion_id, time, type, content) VALUES \n";

	fwrite($sqlScript_discussions, "INSERT INTO discussions (id, title, start_time, comments_count, participants_count, start_post_id, last_post_id, start_user_id, last_user_id, last_time) VALUES \n");
	fwrite($sqlScript_discussions_tags, "INSERT INTO discussions_tags (discussion_id, tag_id) VALUES \n");

	//	Loop trough all PHPBB topics
	while($topic = $topicsQuery->fetch_assoc())
	{
		//	Convert posts per topic
		$participantsArr = [];
		$lastPosterID = 0;

		$sqlQuery = sprintf("SELECT * FROM phpbb_posts WHERE topic_id = %d;", $topic["topic_id"]);
		$postsQuery = $exportDbConnection->query($sqlQuery);
		$postCount = $postsQuery->num_rows;

		if($postCount)
		{
			$curPost = 0;

			//fwrite($sqlScript_posts, $insertString);
			while($post = $postsQuery->fetch_assoc())
			{
				$curPost++;

				$posterID = 0;
				$date = new DateTime();
				$date->setTimestamp($post["post_time"]);
				$postDate =  $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
				$postText = formatText($exportDbConnection, $post['post_text']);

				if(empty($post['post_username']))// If the post_username field has text it means it's a "ghost" post. Therefore we should set the poster id to 0 so Flarum knows it's an invalid user
				{
					$posterID = $post['poster_id'];

					// Add to the array only if unique
					if(!in_array($posterID, $participantsArr))
						$participantsArr[] = $posterID;
				}

				if($curPost == $postCount)// Check if it's the last post in the discussion and save the poster id
					$lastPosterID = $posterID;

				// Write post values to SQL Script
				//fwrite($sqlScript_posts, sprintf("\t(%d, %d, %d, '%s', 'comment', '%s')%s\n", $post['post_id'], $posterID, $topic['topic_id'], $postDate, $postText, $curPost != $postCount ? "," : ";"));

				// Execute the insert query in the desired database.
				$formattedValuesStr = sprintf("(%d, %d, %d, '%s', 'comment', '%s');", $post['post_id'], $posterID, $topic['topic_id'], $postDate, $postText);
				$importDbConnection->query($insertString . $formattedValuesStr);
			}
		}
		//else
		//	echo "<br>Topic ". $topic['topic_id'] ." has zero posts.<br>";

		//	Convert topic to Flarum format
		//
		//	This needs to be done at the end because we need to get the post count first
		//
		$date = new DateTime();
		$date->setTimestamp($topic["topic_time"]);
		$discussionDate = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
		$topicTitle = formatText($exportDbConnection, $topic["topic_title"]);

		// Link Discussion/Topic to a Tag/Category
		fwrite($sqlScript_discussions_tags, sprintf("\t(%d, %d),\n", $topic["topic_id"], $topic["forum_id"]));

		// Check for parent forums
		$parentForum = $exportDbConnection->query("SELECT parent_id FROM phpbb_forums WHERE forum_id = " . $topic["forum_id"]);
		$result = $parentForum->fetch_assoc();
		if($result['parent_id'] > 0)
			fwrite($sqlScript_discussions_tags, sprintf("\t(%d, %d),\n", $topic["topic_id"], $result['parent_id']));

		if($lastPosterID == 0)// Just to make sure it displays an actual username if the topic doesn't have posts? Not sure about this.
			$lastPosterID = $topic["topic_poster"];

		// id, title, start_time, comments_count, participants_count, start_post_id, last_post_id, start_user_id, last_user_id, last_time
		$valuesStr = sprintf("\t(%d, '%s', '%s', %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, '%s'),\n", $topic["topic_id"], $topicTitle, $discussionDate, $postCount, count($participantsArr), 1, 1, $topic["topic_poster"], $lastPosterID, $discussionDate);

		fwrite($sqlScript_discussions, $valuesStr);
	}
}

//fclose($sqlScript_posts);
fclose($sqlScript_discussions_tags);
fclose($sqlScript_discussions);

// Convert user posted topics to user discussions?
$sqlScript = fopen('flarum_user_discussions.sql', 'w');
echo "<hr>Last Step - User Discussions<hr/>";
$result = $exportDbConnection->query("SELECT user_id, topic_id FROM phpbb_topics_posted");
if ($result->num_rows > 0)
{
	fwrite($sqlScript, "INSERT INTO users_discussions (user_id, discussion_id) VALUES ");

	while($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
		fwrite($sqlScript, "(".($row["user_id"]).", ".($row["topic_id"])."),");

	echo "Success";
}
else
	echo "Table is empty";

// Close connection to the database
$exportDbConnection->close();
$importDbConnection->close();

// Functions
function print_r2($val)
{
	echo '<pre>';
	print_r($val);
	echo  '</pre>';
}

function slugify($text)
{
	$text = preg_replace('~[^\\pL\d]+~u', '-', $text);
	$text = trim($text, '-');
	$text = iconv('utf-8', 'us-ascii//TRANSLIT', $text);
	$text = strtolower($text);
	$text = preg_replace('~[^-\w]+~', '', $text);

	if (empty($text))
		return 'n-a';

	return $text;
}

function rand_color()
{
	return '#' . str_pad(dechex(mt_rand(0, 0xFFFFFF)), 6, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
}

function mysql_escape_mimic($inp)
{
	if(is_array($inp))
			return array_map(__METHOD__, $inp);

	if(!empty($inp) && is_string($inp)) {
			return str_replace(array('\\', "\0", "\n", "\r", "'", '"', "\x1a"), array('\\\\', '\\0', '\\n', '\\r', "\\'", '\\"', '\\Z'), $inp);
	}
	return $inp;
}

// Formats PHPBB's text to Flarum's text format
function formatText($connection, $text)
{
	$text = preg_replace('#\:\w+#', '', $text);
	$text = convertBBCodeToHTML($text);
	$text = str_replace("&quot;","\"",$text);
	$text = preg_replace('|[[\/\!]*?[^\[\]]*?]|si', '', $text);
	$text = trimSmilies($text);

	// Wrap text lines with paragraph tags
	$explodedText = explode("\n", $text);
	foreach ($explodedText as $key => $value)
	{
		if(strlen($value) > 1)// Only wrap in a paragraph tag if the line has actual text
			$explodedText[$key] = '<p>' . $value . '</p>';
	}
	$text = implode("\n", $explodedText);

	$wrapTag = strpos($text, '&gt;') > 0 ? "r" : "t";// Posts with quotes need to be 'richtext'
	$text = sprintf('<%s>%s</%s>', $wrapTag, $text, $wrapTag);

	return $connection->real_escape_string($text);
}

// Used to convert Categories to Tags
function stripBBCode($text_to_search) {
    $pattern = '|[[\/\!]*?[^\[\]]*?]|si';
    $replace = '';
    return preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $text_to_search);
}

function convertBBCodeToHTML($bbcode)
{
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[b](.+)\[\/b]#', "<b>$1</b>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[i](.+)\[\/i]#', "<i>$1</i>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[u](.+)\[\/u]#', "<u>$1</u>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[img](.+?)\[\/img]#is', "<img src='$1'\>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[quote=(.+?)](.+?)\[\/quote]#is', "<QUOTE><i>&gt;</i>$2</QUOTE>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[code:\w+](.+?)\[\/code:\w+]#is', "<CODE>$1<CODE>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[\*](.+?)\[\/\*]#is', "<li>$1</li>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[color=\#\w+](.+?)\[\/color]#is', "$1", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[url=(.+?)](.+?)\[\/url]#is', "<a href='$1'>$2</a>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[url](.+?)\[\/url]#is', "<a href='$1'>$1</a>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[list](.+?)\[\/list]#is', "<ul>$1</ul>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[size=200](.+?)\[\/size]#is', "<h1>$1</h1>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[size=170](.+?)\[\/size]#is', "<h2>$1</h2>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[size=150](.+?)\[\/size]#is', "<h3>$1</h3>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[size=120](.+?)\[\/size]#is', "<h4>$1</h4>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[size=85](.+?)\[\/size]#is', "<h5>$1</h5>", $bbcode);

	return $bbcode;
}

function trimSmilies($postText)
{
	$startStr = "<!--";
	$endStr = 'alt="';

	$startStr1 = '" title';
	$endStr1 = " -->";

	$emoticonsCount = substr_count($postText, '<img src="{SMILIES_PATH}');

	for ($i=0; $i < $emoticonsCount; $i++)
	{
		$startPos = strpos($postText, $startStr);
		$endPos = strpos($postText, $endStr);

		$postText = substr_replace($postText, NULL, $startPos, $endPos-$startPos+strlen($endStr));

		$startPos1 = strpos($postText, $startStr1);
		$endPos1 = strpos($postText, $endStr1);

		$postText = substr_replace($postText, NULL, $startPos1, $endPos1-$startPos1+strlen($endStr1);
	}

	return $postText;
}
?>
	<?php
	/*
	// Original script by robrotheram from discuss.flarum.org
	// Modified by VIRUXE
	*/

	set_time_limit(0);
	ini_set('memory_limit', -1);

	ini_set("log_errors", 1);
	ini_set("error_log", "php-error.log");

	// Configs for PHPBB database
	$servername = "localhost";
	$username = "root";
	$password = "";
	$exportDBName = "phpbb_name";
	$importDBName = "flarum_name";

	// Establish a connection to the server where the PHPBB database exists
	$exportDbConnection = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $exportDBName);
	$importDbConnection = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $importDBName);

	// Check connection
	if ($exportDbConnection->connect_error)
	die("Export - Connection failed: " . $exportDbConnection->connect_error);
	else
	{
	echo "Export - Connected successfully<br>";

	if(!$exportDbConnection->set_charset("utf8"))
	{
	printf("Error loading character set utf8: %s\n", $exportDbConnection->error);
	exit();
	}
	else
	printf("Current character set: %s\n", $exportDbConnection->character_set_name());
	}

	if ($importDbConnection->connect_error)
	die("Import - Connection failed: " . $importDbConnection->connect_error);
	else
	{
	echo "Import - Connected successfully<br>";

	if(!$importDbConnection->set_charset("utf8"))
	{
	printf("Error loading character set utf8: %s\n", $importDbConnection->error);
	exit();
	}
	else
	printf("Current character set: %s\n", $importDbConnection->character_set_name());
	}

	//Convert Users
	$sqlScript = fopen('flarum_users.sql', 'w');

	echo "<hr>Step 1 - Users<hr>";
	$result = $exportDbConnection->query("SELECT user_id, from_unixtime(user_regdate) as user_regdate, username_clean, user_email FROM phpbb_users");
	$totalUsers = $result->num_rows;
	if ($totalUsers)
	{
	fwrite($sqlScript, "INSERT INTO users (id, username, email, password, join_time, is_activated) VALUES \n");

	$i = 0;
	$usersIgnored = 0;
	while($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
	{
	$i++;

	if($row["user_email"] != NULL)
	{
	$username = $row["username_clean"];
	$usernameHasSpace = strpos($username, " ");

	if($usernameHasSpace > 0)
	$formatedUsername = str_replace(" ", NULL, $username);
	else
	$formatedUsername = $username;

	$valuesStr = sprintf("\t(%d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', 1)%s\n", $row["user_id"], $formatedUsername, $row["user_email"], sha1(md5(time())), $row['user_regdate'], $i == $totalUsers ? ";" : ",");
	fwrite($sqlScript, $valuesStr);
	}
	else
	$usersIgnored++;
	}
	echo $i-$usersIgnored . ' out of '. $totalUsers .' Total Users converted';
	}
	else
	echo "Something went wrong.";

	fclose($sqlScript);

	//Convert Categories to Tags
	$sqlScript = fopen('flarum_tags.sql', 'w');

	echo "<hr>Step 2 - Categories<hr>";
	$result = $exportDbConnection->query("SELECT forum_id, forum_name, forum_desc FROM phpbb_forums");
	$totalCategories = $result->num_rows;
	if ($totalCategories)
	{
	fwrite($sqlScript, "INSERT INTO tags (id, name, description, slug, color, position) VALUES \n");

	$i = 1;
	while($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
	{
	$slug = slugify($row["forum_name"]);
	$valuesStr = sprintf("\t(%d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d)%s\n", $row["forum_id"], mysql_escape_mimic($row["forum_name"]), mysql_escape_mimic(strip_tags(stripBBCode($row["forum_desc"]))), mysql_escape_mimic($slug), rand_color(), $i, $i == $totalCategories ? ";" : ",");
	fwrite($sqlScript, $valuesStr);

	$i++;
	}
	echo $totalCategories . ' Categories converted.';
	}
	else
	echo "Something went wrong.";

	fclose($sqlScript);


	// Convert Topics to Discussions
	$sqlScript_discussions = fopen('flarum_discussions.sql', 'w');
	$sqlScript_discussions_tags = fopen('flarum_discussions_tags.sql', 'w');

	echo "<hr>Step 3 - Topics<hr>";
	$topicsQuery = $exportDbConnection->query("SELECT topic_id, topic_poster, forum_id, topic_title, topic_time FROM phpbb_topics ORDER BY topic_id DESC;");
	$topicCount = $topicsQuery->num_rows;
	if($topicCount)
	{
	$curTopicCount = 0;
	$insertString = "INSERT INTO posts (id, user_id, discussion_id, time, type, content) VALUES \n";

	fwrite($sqlScript_discussions, "INSERT INTO discussions (id, title, start_time, comments_count, participants_count, start_post_id, last_post_id, start_user_id, last_user_id, last_time) VALUES \n");
	fwrite($sqlScript_discussions_tags, "INSERT INTO discussions_tags (discussion_id, tag_id) VALUES \n");

	// Loop trough all PHPBB topics
	while($topic = $topicsQuery->fetch_assoc())
	{
	// Convert posts per topic
	$participantsArr = [];
	$lastPosterID = 0;

	$sqlQuery = sprintf("SELECT * FROM phpbb_posts WHERE topic_id = %d;", $topic["topic_id"]);
	$postsQuery = $exportDbConnection->query($sqlQuery);
	$postCount = $postsQuery->num_rows;

	if($postCount)
	{
	$curPost = 0;

	//fwrite($sqlScript_posts, $insertString);
	while($post = $postsQuery->fetch_assoc())
	{
	$curPost++;

	$posterID = 0;
	$date = new DateTime();
	$date->setTimestamp($post["post_time"]);
	$postDate = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
	$postText = formatText($exportDbConnection, $post['post_text']);

	if(empty($post['post_username']))// If the post_username field has text it means it's a "ghost" post. Therefore we should set the poster id to 0 so Flarum knows it's an invalid user
	{
	$posterID = $post['poster_id'];

	// Add to the array only if unique
	if(!in_array($posterID, $participantsArr))
	$participantsArr[] = $posterID;
	}

	if($curPost == $postCount)// Check if it's the last post in the discussion and save the poster id
	$lastPosterID = $posterID;

	// Write post values to SQL Script
	//fwrite($sqlScript_posts, sprintf("\t(%d, %d, %d, '%s', 'comment', '%s')%s\n", $post['post_id'], $posterID, $topic['topic_id'], $postDate, $postText, $curPost != $postCount ? "," : ";"));

	// Execute the insert query in the desired database.
	$formattedValuesStr = sprintf("(%d, %d, %d, '%s', 'comment', '%s');", $post['post_id'], $posterID, $topic['topic_id'], $postDate, $postText);
	$importDbConnection->query($insertString . $formattedValuesStr);
	}
	}
	//else
	// echo "<br>Topic ". $topic['topic_id'] ." has zero posts.<br>";

	// Convert topic to Flarum format
	//
	// This needs to be done at the end because we need to get the post count first
	//
	$date = new DateTime();
	$date->setTimestamp($topic["topic_time"]);
	$discussionDate = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
	$topicTitle = formatText($exportDbConnection, $topic["topic_title"]);

	// Link Discussion/Topic to a Tag/Category
	fwrite($sqlScript_discussions_tags, sprintf("\t(%d, %d),\n", $topic["topic_id"], $topic["forum_id"]));

	// Check for parent forums
	$parentForum = $exportDbConnection->query("SELECT parent_id FROM phpbb_forums WHERE forum_id = " . $topic["forum_id"]);
	$result = $parentForum->fetch_assoc();
	if($result['parent_id'] > 0)
	fwrite($sqlScript_discussions_tags, sprintf("\t(%d, %d),\n", $topic["topic_id"], $result['parent_id']));

	if($lastPosterID == 0)// Just to make sure it displays an actual username if the topic doesn't have posts? Not sure about this.
	$lastPosterID = $topic["topic_poster"];

	// id, title, start_time, comments_count, participants_count, start_post_id, last_post_id, start_user_id, last_user_id, last_time
	$valuesStr = sprintf("\t(%d, '%s', '%s', %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, '%s'),\n", $topic["topic_id"], $topicTitle, $discussionDate, $postCount, count($participantsArr), 1, 1, $topic["topic_poster"], $lastPosterID, $discussionDate);

	fwrite($sqlScript_discussions, $valuesStr);
	}
	}

	//fclose($sqlScript_posts);
	fclose($sqlScript_discussions_tags);
	fclose($sqlScript_discussions);

	// Convert user posted topics to user discussions?
	$sqlScript = fopen('flarum_user_discussions.sql', 'w');
	echo "<hr>Last Step - User Discussions<hr/>";
	$result = $exportDbConnection->query("SELECT user_id, topic_id FROM phpbb_topics_posted");
	if ($result->num_rows > 0)
	{
	fwrite($sqlScript, "INSERT INTO users_discussions (user_id, discussion_id) VALUES ");

	while($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
	fwrite($sqlScript, "(".($row["user_id"]).", ".($row["topic_id"])."),");

	echo "Success";
	}
	else
	echo "Table is empty";

	// Close connection to the database
	$exportDbConnection->close();
	$importDbConnection->close();

	// Functions
	function print_r2($val)
	{
	echo '<pre>';
	print_r($val);
	echo '</pre>';
	}

	function slugify($text)
	{
	$text = preg_replace('~[^\\pL\d]+~u', '-', $text);
	$text = trim($text, '-');
	$text = iconv('utf-8', 'us-ascii//TRANSLIT', $text);
	$text = strtolower($text);
	$text = preg_replace('~[^-\w]+~', '', $text);

	if (empty($text))
	return 'n-a';

	return $text;
	}

	function rand_color()
	{
	return '#' . str_pad(dechex(mt_rand(0, 0xFFFFFF)), 6, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
	}

	function mysql_escape_mimic($inp)
	{
	if(is_array($inp))
	return array_map(__METHOD__, $inp);

	if(!empty($inp) && is_string($inp)) {
	return str_replace(array('\\', "\0", "\n", "\r", "'", '"', "\x1a"), array('\\\\', '\\0', '\\n', '\\r', "\\'", '\\"', '\\Z'), $inp);
	}
	return $inp;
	}

	// Formats PHPBB's text to Flarum's text format
	function formatText($connection, $text)
	{
	$text = preg_replace('#\:\w+#', '', $text);
	$text = convertBBCodeToHTML($text);
	$text = str_replace(""","\"",$text);
	$text = preg_replace('\|[[\/\!]?[^\[\]]?]\|si', '', $text);
	$text = trimSmilies($text);

	// Wrap text lines with paragraph tags
	$explodedText = explode("\n", $text);
	foreach ($explodedText as $key => $value)
	{
	if(strlen($value) > 1)// Only wrap in a paragraph tag if the line has actual text
	$explodedText[$key] = '<p>' . $value . '</p>';
	}
	$text = implode("\n", $explodedText);

	$wrapTag = strpos($text, '>') > 0 ? "r" : "t";// Posts with quotes need to be 'richtext'
	$text = sprintf('<%s>%s</%s>', $wrapTag, $text, $wrapTag);

	return $connection->real_escape_string($text);
	}

	// Used to convert Categories to Tags
	function stripBBCode($text_to_search) {
	$pattern = '\|[[\/\!]?[^\[\]]?]\|si';
	$replace = '';
	return preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $text_to_search);
	}

	function convertBBCodeToHTML($bbcode)
	{
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[b](.+)\[\/b]#', "<b>$1</b>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[i](.+)\[\/i]#', "<i>$1</i>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[u](.+)\[\/u]#', "<u>$1</u>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[img](.+?)\[\/img]#is', "<img src='$1'\>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[quote=(.+?)](.+?)\[\/quote]#is', "<QUOTE><i>></i>$2</QUOTE>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[code:\w+](.+?)\[\/code:\w+]#is', "<CODE>$1<CODE>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[\](.+?)\[\/\]#is', "<li>$1</li>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[color=\#\w+](.+?)\[\/color]#is', "$1", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[url=(.+?)](.+?)\[\/url]#is', "<a href='$1'>$2</a>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[url](.+?)\[\/url]#is', "<a href='$1'>$1</a>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[list](.+?)\[\/list]#is', "<ul>$1</ul>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[size=200](.+?)\[\/size]#is', "<h1>$1</h1>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[size=170](.+?)\[\/size]#is', "<h2>$1</h2>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[size=150](.+?)\[\/size]#is', "<h3>$1</h3>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[size=120](.+?)\[\/size]#is', "<h4>$1</h4>", $bbcode);
	$bbcode = preg_replace('#\[size=85](.+?)\[\/size]#is', "<h5>$1</h5>", $bbcode);

	return $bbcode;
	}

	function trimSmilies($postText)
	{
	$startStr = "<!--";
	$endStr = 'alt="';

	$startStr1 = '" title';
	$endStr1 = " -->";

	$emoticonsCount = substr_count($postText, '<img src="{SMILIES_PATH}');

	for ($i=0; $i < $emoticonsCount; $i++)
	{
	$startPos = strpos($postText, $startStr);
	$endPos = strpos($postText, $endStr);

	$postText = substr_replace($postText, NULL, $startPos, $endPos-$startPos+strlen($endStr));

	$startPos1 = strpos($postText, $startStr1);
	$endPos1 = strpos($postText, $endStr1);

	$postText = substr_replace($postText, NULL, $startPos1, $endPos1-$startPos1+strlen($endStr1);
	}

	return $postText;
	}
	?>