PHP3 and how to replace substrings??

[Anon]

problem:
i'm a newbie and i'm working on a script that replaces several substrings like (🙂,;P,:sleep🙂 with <img src=linktosmilie> and my problem is how to handle long strings fast! i always get problems with "maximum execution time". so please help me! is PHP4 faster??

thx

[Anon]

Use the ereg_replace function if you aren't already.

Ex.
$newstring = ereg_replace("🙂","<img src=...",$oldstring);

Will replace 🙂 with <img src=..." in $oldstring

[Anon]

i've already used the ereg_replace function hmmm