[Privoxy-users] some help please writing a filter for a phpbb forum

[René J.V. Bertin]

Hi,

I'm active on a forum run by an admin who prefers to let members deal with broken/disabled features rather than setting up the software properly.

I've been trying to use a privoxy filter to suppress a few buttons of the posting editor which insert unsupported BBCodes. I know what html code to remove and have confirmed that it has the required effect:

>From the line

```
	var bbtags = new Array('[b]','[/b]','[i]','[/i]','[u]','[/u]','[quote]','[/quote]','[code]','[/code]','[list]','[/list]','[list=]','[/list]','[img]','[/img]','[url]','[/url]','[flash=]', '[/flash]','[size=]','[/size]', '[font]', '[/font]', '[anchor]', '[/anchor]', '[goto]', '[/goto]');
```

the string ", '[anchor]', '[/anchor]', '[goto]', '[/goto]'" should be removed (for good measure)

And the following 2 button definitions from `<div id="format-buttons" class="format-buttons">` should also be removed:

```
		<button type="button" class="button button-secondary bbcode-anchor" name="addbbcode24" value="anchor" onclick="bbstyle(24)" title="Anchor: [anchor]Name of the anchor[/anchor]">
		anchor
	</button>
		<button type="button" class="button button-secondary bbcode-goto" name="addbbcode26" value="goto" onclick="bbstyle(26)" title="Goto: [goto=Anchor Name]Link tekst[/goto]">
		goto
	</button>
```

I'm not exactly familiar with perl, but I had hoped that the following filter definition would do it (as you can see I experimented with a different approach for the 2 buttons:

```
FILTER: delcamp-forbidden-bbcodes Try to hide buttons for forbidden bbcodes on the delcamp cg forum
s|, '\[anchor\]', '\[/anchor\]', '\[goto\]', '\[/goto\]'||Uig
s|<button type="button" class="button button-secondary bbcode-anchor".*\n\
.*anchor.*\n\
.*</button>||ig
s|<button type="button" class="button button-secondary bbcode-goto".*</button>||im

```

My user.action file has

```

{ +filter{delcamp-forbidden-bbcodes} } 
.classicalguitardelcamp.com


```

somewhere near the end, just above the `fragile` section. I can see that the rule is applied to the forum URLs but I see no trace of it being invoked if I activate debug 64 as suggested.

Ergo, I must be doing something wrong, or have missed something. Are these the "external filters" mentioned in the description of the `temporary-directory` feature, for instance?

Thanks in advance,
Cheers,
R.B.