URL Hyperlinking

The forum can automatically pick up on many forms of URLs, for example:

http://www.prohost.org

will be automatically picked up as a url and converted to a valid url, which will look like this:

You can create a url yourself by using FUD code also, this can be done in 2 ways, a simple way works like this:

[URL]http://www.myhomepage.com[/URL]

this will result in a generation fo the following link:

http://www.myhomepage.com

You can add a description to your url by using a different syntax inside the [URL=http://www.myhomepage.com]My Homepage[/URL] this code will result in the following:

My Homepage

Email Hyperlinking

To create an email link simply type the email address as it would normally appear, for example:

support@prohost.org

the forum will automatically understand this create a link. In addition it is also possible to create a real email hyperlink using this format

[email=support@prohost.org]Click here to email our tech support[/email]

Text Styling
There are a number of tags which you can use to style text, they are:

[b]bold [/b] produces bold text
[u]underline [/u] produces underlined text
[i]italic [/i] produces italicized text

It is also possible to control color/size and even font face.

[color=red]red text [/color] produces red text
[size=4]big text [/size] produces text in the specified size
[font=courier]text [/font] produces text using the named type face

It is also possible to combine various formatting tags:

[b][u][i][color=red][size=10][font=courier]Formatted Text[/font][/size][/color][/i][/u][/b]

this example produces:

Formatted Text

Various Lists
You can create various kinds of lists using Form Code:

Un-ordered bulleted list:
[list]
[*]first item
[*]second item
[/list]

would produce

first item
second item

It is possible to use various kinds of lists, for example to create an numerical ordered list:
[list type=1]
[*]first item
[*]second item
[/list]
which produces

first item
second item

to create an A-Z list:
[list type=A]
[*]first item
[*]second item
[/list]

which produces:

first item
second item

Adding Images
It is possible to include in-line images with the message. using the [img][/img] tags.

so, for example,

[img]http://www.prohost.org/img/pro_logo.gif[/img],

will insert an image in the message as such:

in addition you can create links to images by enclosing them inside a [url][/url] tags such as

[url=http://www.prohost.org][img]http://www.prohost.org/img/pro_logo.gif[/img][/url]

which will create a linked image such as

Quoting other messages
It is possible to quote something that has already been posted, by just putting [quote][/quote] tags around it.

[quote]hello world[/quote]

would appear such as:

hello world

Computer Code and Pre-formatted Text
The [code][/code] tags allows to post text exactly as it is, maintaining relational formatting such as tabs and multiple spaces.

it used like this:
[code]

$fp = fopen('somefile', 'w');
if ( !$fp ) {
	exit('no such file!');
}
else { 
	fwrite($fp, 'hello world');
	fclose($fp);
}

[/code]

which produces the text exactly as it was typed maintaining the formatting.

$fp = fopen('somefile', 'w');
if ( !$fp ) {
	exit('no such file!');
}
else { 
	fwrite($fp, 'hello world');
	fclose($fp);
}