After working on the new function for hours (And adding ~320 more lines of code) I am getting really close to finishing the new product which allows nested tags! XD.  I have yet to test how fast it is because it isn’t fully finished, but it is getting there! However, I am quite sure it will be much faster than the older one because it just used regex to find tags on the message, one after another, and regex on a huge message isn’t that fast.

I hope to finish this tomorrow! As long as I don’t run into any major problems.

Not to long ago I began pondering how I could approach this problem, and how other systems do it. I then thought, XML! I remembered that in PHP using XML Parser it parses the XML file into levels with by tags, and that is how I am approaching it

I already have a very very very (Did I say very?) rough prototype, only ~32 lines of code, the function parses this string:

[b]Hello there![/b] [i]Why? [color=red]CAUSE![/color][/i]

Into:

Array
(
    [1] => [b]
    [2] => Hello there!
    [3] => [/b]
    [4] => 
    [5] => [i]
    [6] => Why?
    [7] => [color=red]
    [8] => CAUSE!
    [9] => [/color]
    [11] => [/i]
)

Right now it isn’t parsed very pretty like But for the time being, it works for the most part! I can’t wait to dig deeper into this idea tomorrow… Seeya for now! (It is 12:15AM at the time I am posting this, Lol)