Because this is a piece of cake for any coder.  You can simply use:  parse_bbc($code) on the code and it will be parsed as bbc.  This is more of a coding decision.  IMHO, wouldn't make much sense as a BBC parameter type, unless we added in the BBC Editor, which I already stated is FLAWED in SMF and unable to be duplicated because the SMF js file that handles this uses id attributes that are not unique and would cause errors on multiple instances of this parameter, unless we modified SMF's js code, which Dream Portal isn't going to get involved in right now.

Honestly, the HTML parameter shouldn't even be used as this has been replaced with the rich_edit parameter type and should use this instead.  I coded in the HTML way back in the day and meant to remove it once I added in the rich_edit parameter type.  Still am considering on removing the HTML parameter type completely as it's just about useless and ugly IMHO.

Sure, here's a quick example:

$code represents the actual string, including bbc tags.  Ofcourse, you really don't even need a variable, the actual bbc will work also, but most likely, this will be coming from a $params variable within your modules instead of $code, but you can even set a default for this.  For example, if you have a parameter named "bbc_code" (perhaps using the rich_edit parameter type, or html)...


So, if the user doesn't type anything into the parameter settings for this, the default message will be:

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