A quick note on development
It's difficult for a noob. However, I've found a few more helpful PHP links for myself.Replacing values in strings: For creating a parser for UBB-style pseudo-code and stripping out HTML.
Most of these systems tend to use [square brackets] to delimit their code. The parse function will probably remove HTML (or replace the brackets with > and < then replace the [tags] with real code, and then replace "escaped" brackets with regular ones (I'm thinking "[[" can be used to display a single square bracket). (#)