Shortcode

Shortcode is a framework agnostic PHP library allowing to find, extract and process text fragments called “shortcodes” or “BBCodes”. Examples of their usual syntax and usage are shown below:

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[quote="Thunderer"]This is a quote.[/quote]
[text color="red"]This is a text.[/text]

The library is divided into several parts, each of them containing logic responsible for different stages and ways of processing data:

• parsers extract shortcodes from text and transform them to objects,
• handlers transform shortcodes into desired replacements,
• processors use parsers and handlers to extract shortcodes, compute replacements, and apply them in text,
• events alter the way processors work to provide better control over the whole process,
• serializers convert shortcodes from and to different formats like Text, XML, JSON, and YAML.

Each part is described in the dedicated section in this document.

Installation

There are no required dependencies and all PHP versions from 5.3 up to latest 8.x are tested…