Quote Coding

[achtungbaby]

Undoubtedly you've seen the following messy-looking code in posts:

<!--QuoteBegin-kasia+Jul 1 2002, 08:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (kasia @ Jul 1 2002, 08:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->

This was an unfortunate feature of the previous forums, in that the quote feature posted in HTML. In the next few days I'll be looking to fix this problem forum-wide, but for now, the ugly quoting will remain. Of course, with the new forums, the quote feature posts in its own "bb code" so it's clean.

[Chester]

I imagine this is all a big, monster pain in the ass.

So...thanks for all the effort.

[achtungbaby]

I imagine this is all a big, monster pain in the ass.

So...thanks for all the effort.

*chokes up with tears*

I'm glad someone noticed!:rolleyes:

[hooligan]

::golf clap:: yay

[hooligan]

oh yeah, ::toasting a cold one in your honor::

[hooligan]

where are you in LA achtung? i'd like to stalk you... haha kidding

[SunWuKong]

Undoubtedly you've seen the following messy-looking code in posts:

<!--QuoteBegin-kasia+Jul 1 2002, 08:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (kasia @ Jul 1 2002, 08:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->

This was an unfortunate feature of the previous forums, in that the quote feature posted in HTML. In the next few days I'll be looking to fix this problem forum-wide, but for now, the ugly quoting will remain. Of course, with the new forums, the quote feature posts in its own "bb code" so it's clean.


i don't think it's an unfortunate feature at all. you mean vBulletin doesn't do this? if it doesn't store everything in HTML in the database, it would have to convert the forum formatting (the [ ]) to HTML everytime someone is looking at a thread. that's a huge overhead to the system. on the other hand, by storing the HTML in the database, the server only has to do the conversion once, during the submission of the post.

[achtungbaby]

i don't think it's an unfortunate feature at all. you mean vBulletin doesn't do this? if it doesn't store everything in HTML in the database, it would have to convert the forum formatting (the [ ]) to HTML everytime someone is looking at a thread. that's a huge overhead to the system. on the other hand, by storing the HTML in the database, the server only has to do the conversion once, during the submission of the post.You were right. I got confused because almost all of the posts up until several months back were migrated successfully in the BB code format, not HTML. I'm not sure why the HTML got left over on those posts...