yvBBCode is a BBCode extension for Joomla! 1.5. GPL licensed.
It may replace BBCodes with HTML markup:
- on the whole page (so, you may use BBCodes everywhere, even in the places, where Joomla! natively allows plain text only),
- or only in your Articles (working as content plugin),
- or it may be used by any Joomla! extension to provide "BBCode buttons" for editor and replace BBCodes with HTML markup in text, generated by this extension (as an example, it is integrated into yvComment extension already).
The extension is customizable, so you may choose, what subset of BBCodes to use, what images are used for buttons etc.

Please, see screenshots on the yvBBCode Homepage and give it a try. The link to that Homepage is on the Joomla! Extensions Directory - yvBBCode page.

please register your extension on the extension site and modify your link once it's published.
As per forum rules, only links to the extension site can be placed.

Whats new in v.1.1:

Added option 'Links to Articles' ('Yes' - by default). If this option is set to 'Yes', links between Articles ('content items'...) may be created with 'special type of BBCodes' inserted into any content of the Web page and converted to Hyperlinks on the fly.
Currently yvBBCode supports one BBCode: contentid.
E.g. [contentid=3]Content management[/contentid] is replaced by the link to the Article with id=3.

For more discussion about this topic, please see Linking to content items

yvolk wrote:Whats new in v.1.1:

Added option 'Links to Articles' ('Yes' - by default). If this option is set to 'Yes', links between Articles ('content items'...) may be created with 'special type of BBCodes' inserted into any content of the Web page and converted to Hyperlinks on the fly.
Currently yvBBCode supports one BBCode: contentid.
E.g. [contentid=3]Content management[/contentid] is replaced by the link to the Article with id=3.

For more discussion about this topic, please see Linking to content items

I'm very happy that you've added the "Links to Articles" functionality!!  This will make my life much easier!

I have discovered that it thinks the article does not exist if it is part of the "Uncategorized" section and category -- so, any uncategorized articles cannot be linked to.

SineMacula wrote:I have discovered that it thinks the article does not exist if it is part of the "Uncategorized" section and category -- so, any uncategorized articles cannot be linked to.

If you will look in the code of "plugins/system/yvbbcode/BBCodeParser/Filter/ContentLinks.php" file (or believe me  ), you see, that the code to build link to the Article is almost exact copy of the code from the "Latest news" module (from file 'modules/mod_latestnews/helper.php'), so:
- it shows exactly how and what "Latest news" module shows, only for one Article, e.g.
- it doesn't show link, if current user doesn't have rights to see it...

...but, of cause, we may improve Joomla!