++ Shoubox Help ++

[ernie]

Hi i'm wanting to creating a shoutbox, aka blogger, aka tagboard.. whatever you want to call it.. i want to change the ascii value for a smilie face into an image.. like what is used on here.. so if i type 🙂, etc. it will show an image when the message is finally shown..

I've been playing around with str_replace, but i can't figure out how to go about scanning a whole string and picking out the text smilies and converting them to an image, plus i want to scan for more than one type of emotion face..

😕 😕 😕 😕

[elfynmcb]

Hey,

Say you had these smilies that changed into these images:

[:] -> 01.gif
|:| -> 02.gif
(;] -> 03.gif

you could do thid:

$smilies = array
(
    "[:]" => "01.gif",
    "|:|" => "02.gif",
    "(;]" => "03.gif"
);

$string = "Im [:], Im |:|, and now Im (;]\n";

foreach( $smilies as $sm_key => $sm_img )
{
    $string = str_replace($sm_key,"<img src=\"$sm_img\" />",$string);
}

echo $string."<br>\n";

P.S. I tried to use the std. bb-code smilies, but the forum replaced them with images. But you should get the basic idea.

[ernie]

thanks for the help.. there is only one problem with the.. i am using the : followed by say ), (example : ) without the space in between).. At the moment i've only put in a sad face, : (, and smiley face, : ), and a big grin, : D... the only one that shows up as an image is the sad face....

why does it do this, and how can it be fixed using the code above?

[ernie]

ok.. i half figured out the problem to my question above.. here's my code:

$smilies = array
(
    ": )" => "01.gif",
    ": (" => "03.gif",
    ": D"=> "02.gif"
);

it seems that which ever one is on the end, or bottom of the array gets inputted as an image, but the rest don't... why???

😕 😕 😕 😕

[Weedpacket]

Lessee if you can get away with this:

$smilies=array(
	':)' => '01.gif',
	':(' => '02.gif',
	':D' => '03.gif'
);

$string="I'm :), I'm, :(, and now I'm :D";
$search=array_keys($smilies);
$replace=array_values($smilies);
foreach($replace as $k=>$v)
{	$replace[$k]="<img src='$v' />";
}
$string=str_replace($search, $replace, $string);

echo $string;

I can ditch the loop:

$smilies=array(
	':)' => "<img src='01.gif' />",
	':(' => "<img src='02.gif' />",
	':D' => "<img src='03.gif' />"
);

$string="I'm :), I'm, :(, and now I'm :D";
$string=str_replace(array_keys($smilies), $array_values($smilies), $string);

echo $string;

[ernie]

thanks weedpacket... it worked.. it worked very well... 😉

[Archbob]

Okay, Now I have another question say the text that I want to convert into smilies is in a SQL blob field say $gbook[comment] , how do I get that to convert to smilies when the correct chars are typed?

[Archbob]

Nevermind I figured it out.

[jebster]

This might help

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=10228443

Here's the code I use

$poster_message = str_replace(':)', '<img src="images/smiles/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0" alt="Happy">', $poster_message);

EDIT
nevermind apears you have figured it out..