Please Help! Problems with EREG_REPLACE

Anon

I'm trying to replace the string "😐" with i smiley but then I got the error: (Warning: REG_EMPTY). I also have problems replacing parantheses: (Warning: REG_EPAREN).

The code strip:

$comment = ereg_replace('😐', '<IMG SRC=smiley.gif>', $comment);

Results:

Warning: REG_EMPTY

How do I solve this problem?

//j0pp3

Anon

First, the problem is because | has a special meaning in regular expressions and should've been escaped.

Second, don't bother with regular expressions. It's just a straight string-replacement.

$comment=str_replace('😐', '<img src="smiley.gif">', $comment);

Anon

Okej thanks, that sounds logic to me. But how do people really replace for example "🙂" into images in PHP?

I'm trying to convert a website I made in ASP, into PHP, and I would like to keep the smileys in the guestbook.

//j0pp3

Anon

Generally in pretty much the same fashion as it's done in ASP, just in a different language.

Which bit of the VBScript code you have is causing problems?

Anon

In VBScript I solved it with the following code:
strComment = Replace(strComment," 🙂","<IMG SRC=smile.gif>")

What I'm looking for is a similar code in PHP.

//j0pp3

Anon

In PHP that would be written the way I showed.

Anon

Oh I missed that.. LOL.. and it worked!! Thanks a lot!

//j0pp3