Bulletin Board Codes that don't show up in the tags list.

[IkeTheGeneric]

Links that move your view to another part of a post? Outrageous!

It's actually very possible, and very, very easy.

The anchoring link would be
Hi!

or

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[iurl=#anchor1]Hi![/iurl]

And that would lead to the very last sentence of the page.

Next is the highlight tooltip.
Hold your cursor over this sentence.

or

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[abbr="Isn't is cool?"]Hold your cursor over this sentence.[/abbr]
It's kind of useful, but pretty darn cool.

Next is the transparent color.

*It works over both white and teal backgrounds.

Or

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[color=transparent]It works over both white and teal backgrounds.[/color]
It's useful for spoilers.

* IkeTheGeneric Is now demonstrating /me

or

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/me is now demonstrating /me
Useful for roleplaying.























And this is the anchor.

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[anchor=anchor1]And this is the anchor.[/anchor]

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[Ningyou]

* Ningyou likes this.

[IkeTheGeneric]

I should add that to the op

[Ector]

I've always wondered how to use anchors.

[alien 01]

* alien 01 thinks this is pretty damn cool.

[Dnitro]

Too bad all of the ones in the help button's "posting" category doesn't work :c

[Night Fox]

This is useful for showing people how to do things with BBC without the [code][/code] tags, or with putting any ugly spaces in the code.

[Caution]

Aw, I know all of these. :(

[Wedge]

I've been using anchors for a while now, they're really cool. You can actually link to anchors in other posts too, like this (it's important that you use an iurl tag and not a url tag). I used it in one thread to create a table of contents for a post that spanned two posts.

Here's some other stuff that I remember.

SMF will do syntax highlighting for php code with the php tag. If your code begins with <?php and you type it into a code tag, it will also automatically do syntax highlighting. It would be cool if we could get syntax highlighting for torquescript on these forums.

class Person {
   public $first;
   public $last;

   public function __construct($f, $l = '') { //Optional parameter
       $this->first = $f;
       $this->last = $l;
   }
 
   public function greet() {
       return "Hello, my name is " . $this->first . " " . $this->last . ".";
   }
 
   static public function staticGreet($first, $last) {
       return "Hello, my name is " . $first . " " . $last . ".";
   }
}
 
$him = new Person('John', 'Smith');
$her = new Person('Sally', 'Davis');
$other= new Person('Joe');
 
echo $him->greet(); // prints "Hello, my name is John Smith."
echo '<br />';
echo $her->greet(); // prints "Hello, my name is Sally Davis."
echo '<br />';
echo $other->greet(); // prints "Hello, my name is Joe  ."
echo '<br />';
echo Person::staticGreet('Jane', 'Doe'); // prints "Hello, my name is Jane Doe."

Aw, I know all of these. :(

• I bet you didn't know this one.
• I just learned this today.
• You can do lists in hebrew.
• Looks like it's an alphabetic list though, not numerical.

You can find documentation of some of the more obscure tags on the SMF website. Here's the code list:
A-G H-Q R-W

[Caution]

Go Wedge. :o

Too bad half of those tags are disabled. :c

[Wedge]

Go Wedge. :o

Too bad half of those tags are disabled. :c

As far as I know only glow, flash, and marquee are disabled, which is a decision I definitely support. When I say flash I'm talking about embedded flash objects, not flashing text. I believe the blink tag has been removed from the html standard for years now and is only supported in really old browsers.

EDIT: Blink tag was never standard and was entirely made up by netscape, then adopted by a few other browsers.

[Caution]

As far as I know only glow, flash, and marquee are disabled, which is a decision I definitely support. When I say flash I'm talking about embedded flash objects, not flashing text. I believe the blink tag has been removed from the html standard for years now and is only supported in really old browsers.

I can agree that they would be removed within good reason but they would still be neat to have and use occasionally.

And sheesh, there are tons of list options. :o

[Wedge]

I can agree that they would be removed within good reason but they would still be neat to have and use occasionally.

And sheesh, there are tons of list options. :o

The smf admin panel will actually let you restrict tags to certain user groups, so you could make the command admin only or something. You can use it to do stuff like add a videos or countdown timer to a post. More often than not though, people just put annoying autoplay stuff in threads, and I think smf ships with it disabled by default.

I don't think there's ever a good reason to use glowing or scrolling text. One custom feature that I saw on a forum that I've never seen anywhere else was gradient text, which was really cool. It was on the heavengames forum, you could define a color start point and end point and the forum software would automatically color every letter in between. There's generators online that will do this for you now, but if you've got a big document it will push your character limit up over the limit. Again it's something you would want to use sparingly, it was mainly used by people to create thread titles and section headers.

[Jak595]

* Jak595 thinks that this is the best thing that he ever saw.

[zookuw]

* zookuw It's pretty cool this works.

edit: FYI /me turns into

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[me=zookuw]It's pretty cool this works.[/me]