$1',
'$1',
'$1',
'
$1',
'$2',
'$2',
'$1',
''
);

// Replacing the BBcodes with corresponding HTML tags
return preg_replace($find,$replace,$text);
}

// How to use the above function:

$bbtext = "This is [b]bold[/b] and this is [u]underlined[/u] and this is in [i]italics[/i] with a [color=red] red color[/color]";
$htmltext = showBBcodes($bbtext);
echo $htmltext;

?>