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Re: Hidden pages/ features on the forum
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PowerGlove
on 03/06/2025, 14:32:34 UTC
⭐ Merited by The Sceptical Chymist (12) ,LoyceV (6) ,ABCbits (5) ,dkbit98 (5) ,vapourminer (4) ,ibminer (3) ,JayJuanGee (1) ,babo (1)
Maybe this one isn't as not-known as I think (I've only ever seen it used on a handful of old posts), but, if you post while in ;wap2 mode (or ;imode, too, I think) then you'll get a different "message icon" than any of the 12 that you can ordinarily [1] pick from (I posted this message in that way, so, you should see the "wireless.gif" icon to the left of this post's subject and date/time).

[1] I'm aware of "moved.gif" and "recycled.gif", and I'm aware that there are some extra message icons on the "Important Announcements" board. I'm just referring to the 12 that you typically get to pick from.

Who knew there's a [php]-tag?
Yeah, that one's easy to forget about. It's worth noting that (with the right delimiter) you can get PHP code-coloring with [code][/code] tags, too:

Code:
<?php echo "Me?! I know who I am! I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude. You're a dude that don't know what dude he is!";

BTW, here's a (I think) complete list of the 59 BBCode tags that the parser recognizes (it's an alphabetical arrangement of the 57 tag names that I found within SMF 1.1.19's parse_bbc function, plus the [btc] tag which came from theymos, and the [nbsp] tag which came from me):

Code:
#
*
+
0
@
abbr
acronym
anchor
b
black
blue
br
btc
center
chrissy
code
color
email
flash
font
ftp
glow
green
hr
html
i
img
iurl
kissy
left
li
list
ltr
me
move
nbsp
nobbc
o
O
php
pre
quote
red
right
rtl
s
shadow
size
sub
sup
table
td
time
tr
tt
u
url
white
x

(From the above list, I think only flash, html, and move are disabled: they are recognized, but, they emit inert stand-ins.)

(Adding new BBCode tags isn't as difficult as it might seem, so if anyone has any good ideas for useful ones, feel free to leave them in my thread.)

And who knew there's some sort of "space" that Admin can post, but turns into " " when I quote it? And why can Mia Chloe post it without problems? Never mind, the " "-thing only happens when I Preview my post.
That's the numeric entity reference for a non-breaking space. I don't know why entity references (and other inconsistencies) show up sometimes during preview. Between theymos' version of SMF being different to mine, and either version being approximately the same bug-harboring contraption, I probably wouldn't be able to get to the bottom of it without sinking something stupid like 2 or 3 days into figuring it out. Angry