A [list] BBCode definition for jBBCode using [*] for list items.

ListCodeDefinition.php

<?php

require_once "jBBCode" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . "Parser.php";

/**
 * Implements a [list] code definition that provides the following syntax:
 *
 * [list]
 *   [*] first item
 *   [*] second item
 *   [*] third item
 * [/list]
 *
 */
class ListCodeDefinition extends \JBBCode\CodeDefinition
{

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->parseContent = true;
        $this->useOption = false;
        $this->setTagName('list');
        $this->nestLimit = -1;
    }

    public function asHtml(\JBBCode\ElementNode $el)
    {
        $bodyHtml = '';
        foreach ($el->getChildren() as $child) {
            $bodyHtml .= $child->getAsHTML();
        }

        $listPieces = explode('[*]', $bodyHtml);
        unset($listPieces[0]);
        $listPieces = array_map(function($li) { return '<li>'.$li.'</li>' . "\n"; }, $listPieces);
        return '<ul>'.implode('', $listPieces).'</ul>';
    }

    public function asText(\JBBCode\ElementNode $el)
    {
        $bodyText = '';
        foreach ($el->getChildren() as $child) {
            $bodyText .= $child->getAsText();
        }
        
        $listPieces = explode('[*]', $bodyText);
        
        // how to separate list values; by using a variable, we can eliminate the separator before the first list item.
        $separator = ', ';
        
        return substr(implode($separator, $listPieces), strlen($separator));
    }
}