Hello, i know almost nothing about PhP. I seem to make due reverse engineering some of the phpbb3 mods i use, but i have run into an issue.

'U_LINK_US2' => ';url=' . $u_link . ' ' . '>' . ('Video Editing Forum') . '</a>',

This is my code atm. The red areas are the ones im unsure of. When U_Link_US2 is called on by a html file, i want its output to look like:

[ url=http://domain.com]Video Editing Forum[/url]

(the space between the bracket and url is just to keep this from actually linking)

However idk what the code is to output symbols. For instance i assume by guessing that "&nbsp;" puts a space in there? I can guess from another line that "&lt" and "&gt" are "<" and ">" respectively.

So my question is whats the code for "[" and "]" ?

Any help would be great as i cannot find the answer anywhere. If someone knows of a cheat sheet that lists the code for symbol output thatd be even better.

Thanks.

[ & ] don't need to be entities as they have no "special" meaning in HTML But you can use &# 91 ; for [ and &# 93 ; for ] [ remove the spaces] ( the ASCII number prefixed with &# and suffixed with ; )

Ah ok, so thats what that is. Thanks a ton ill give it a try and let you know how it works out.