unexpected ':'

sane993

okay i got this line of code:

$string = str_replace ("🙂","<IMG SRC=\"smile.jpg\", $string);

and whenever i run the code i got an unexpected ':'. I tried putting the '\' infront of it but it still doesn't work. Any help?

piersk

Can you repost, but with the smilies turned off.

sane993

okay i got this line of code:

$string = str_replace ("🙂","<IMG SRC=\"smile.jpg\", $string);

and whenever i run the code i got an unexpected ':'. I tried putting the '\' infront of it but it still doesn't work. Any help?

piersk

Try:

$smilie = "🙂";

$string = str_replace ($smilie,"<IMG SRC=\"smile.jpg\", $string);

sane993

that code brings:
unexpected T_variable

something strange is going on because when i tried =) it said unexpected '=' sign and then i tried 8) and it said unexpected t_number or sumthing similar.(i just know it evaulated to an error)

zalath

Originally posted by sane993
okay i got this line of code:

$string = str_replace ("🙂","<IMG SRC=\"smile.jpg\", $string);

and whenever i run the code i got an unexpected ':'. I tried putting the '\' infront of it but it still doesn't work. Any help?

Take a long look at "<IMG SRC=\"smile.jpg\"
and tell me what's wrong with it :rolleyes:

Hint: count the quotation marks 😃

piersk

Not only that, but you should count the ">"s as wells...

sane993

thats not the real problem in my actual script its correct i was just lazy and forgot to chuck em them on when i wrote it on this forum

piersk

Can you post your code as an attachment please.

sane993

I would rather not post an attachment but here is the first section of the script...(its a chat room)

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<?php
$name = $_POST["name"];
$colour = $_POST["colour"];
$message = $_POST["message"];
$message = nl2br($message);

$message = htmlspecialchars($message);
$message = str_replace("&gt;", ">", $message);
$message = str_replace("&lt;b>", "<b>", $message);
$message = str_replace("&lt;/b>", "</b>", $message);
$message = str_replace("&lt;B>", "<B>", $message);
$message = str_replace("&lt;/B>", "</B>", $message);
$message = str_replace("&lt;i>", "<i>", $message);
$message = str_replace("&lt;/i>", "</i>", $message);
$message = str_replace("&lt;I>", "<I>", $message);
$message = str_replace("&lt;/I>", "</I>", $message);
$message = str_replace("&quot;", "\", $message);
$message = str_replace(":)", "<IMG SRC=\"smile.jpg\">", $message);
..........

sane993

$message = str_replace("🙂","<IMG SRC=\"smile.jpg\">", $message);

it should be ^ (it got wrecked by the forum

bernouli

change into this

$message = str_replace("<img src=\"images/smilies/smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">", "<IMG SRC=\"smile.jpg\">", $message);

piersk

$message = str_replace(""", "\", $message);
$message = str_replace("<img src="images/smilies/smile.gif" border="0" alt="">", "<IMG SRC="smile.jpg\">", $message);

Try replacing these two lines with:

$message = str_replace("&quot;", "\"", $message);
$message = str_replace("<img src=\"images/smilies/smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">", "<IMG SRC=\"smile.jpg\">", $message);

sane993

yes that works but i don't understand what you changed...

bernouli

the " must be escaped, so that php knows its just a char

piersk

What was happening was that you were closing quotation marks. Example:

("<img src="images

PHP will think that images is not in the quotation marks.
All I did was add a \ before to excape the character:

("<img src=\"images

See? 😃