HTML to SMF code converter!

Ted · June 17, 2009, 11:54:03 PM

If you are someone who (a) does occasional long-winded and complex posts to this forum, and (b) is more comfortable with HTML, then you'll love this.

HTML to BBCode [and SMF code] Converter

Here's an example of something that would be a real pain to do in SMF code:

Before:

Code Select

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2">
  <tr>
    <td valign="middle" align="center" width="100%"><table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="2">
        <tr>
          <td width="306" valign="middle" align="center"><a href="http://web.tedjohnson.us/pages/bossbr/bossbrm2c1001.jpg"> <img src="http://web.tedjohnson.us/pages/bossbr/tn_bossbrm2c1001_jpg.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="63" alt="bossbrm2c1001.jpg" /></a></td>
          <td valign="middle">I decided to move beginning a full beat before the guitar started, just to make sure I didn't cut off any sound.  So the move I wanted was:
            <pre>Start Meas  004-1

End Meas    070-1 (beyond the end of the song)

To Meas    002-4-50</pre>
            <br /></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>

After:

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[table]
  [tr]
    [td][table]
        [tr]
          [td][url=http://web.tedjohnson.us/pages/bossbr/bossbrm2c1001.jpg] [img]http://web.tedjohnson.us/pages/bossbr/tn_bossbrm2c1001_jpg.jpg[/img][/url][/td]
          [td]I decided to move beginning a full beat before the guitar started, just to make sure I didn't cut off any sound.  So the move I wanted was:
            [pre]Start Meas  004-1

End Meas    070-1 (beyond the end of the song)

To Meas    002-4-50[/pre]
          
[/td]
        [/tr]
      [/table][/td]
  [/tr]
[/table]

This is awesome! I just wasted a bunch of time converting some HTML into SMF code for this post.

It probably would have saved me an hour of search-and-replace effort that was only partially useful.

Well, at the very least I expect 64Guitars to be excited about it.

For me, "That would take too long" will never again be an excuse to keep me from contributing another excruciatingly over-formatted post here.

You poor people.