The best way to do this...

[evo4ever]

Hey ppl. I need a little help with Smilies. I going to create a script which replaces any smiley symbol with its image. Im not too sure how to do this. I thought about creating an array of some kind... and somewhere in the script has a functions like str_replace(); ereg_replace(); etc. How do u think I should scan through a variable for smily symbols and replace it with the img url? help appreciated. thx.

[diego25]

Maybe something like:

$string = str_replace('🙂', '<img src="laugh.gif" />', $string);

Diego

[evo4ever]

Yeah thats how I done it at the start. But when I realised there will be more than one smiley symbol I got confused.

Symbols:
🙂
🙁

😡
:p
😉
:d
:s
:$

Any suggestions? thx.

[diego25]

What do you mean you got confused? Confused by what? ALso note that there is a "Disable smilies in this post" option below the textarea that you type the message in...

Diego

[evo4ever]

Ok ive thought up a way:

{
	$smilies = array(":)", ":(");
	$replace = array("<img-smiley>", "<img-sad>");

echo $smiley = str_replace($smilies, $replace, $smiley);

}

[seby]

this is how i made my smilie code.

$smile = "<img src='/images/smilies/smile.gif'>";
$wink = "<img src='/images/smilies/wink.gif'>";
$sad = "<img src='/images/smilies/sad.gif'>";
$biggrin = "<img src='/images/smilies/biggrin.gif'>";

$row[text] = ereg_replace(":)", $smile, $row[text]);
$row[text] = ereg_replace(":-)", $smile, $row[text]);
$row[text] = ereg_replace(":D", $biggrin, $row[text]);
$row[text] = ereg_replace(":-D", $biggrin, $row[text]);
$row[text] = ereg_replace(":\(", $sad, $row[text]);
$row[text] = ereg_replace(";)", $wink, $row[text]);