Message Board Smilie Problem

kumschick

Hi,

I have a [Message Board] on my website, everything works fine but now I want to update it. I wanted to add the [smilies] like on this site.

So if I click on a smilie on my site, the shortcut will be added the the text <textarea name="content"></textarea> like this -> :-D

But from here on I have a problem! If now I click on "submit" the smilie will be added as "text"! That's normal, since I don't know how I have to tell php & mysql to add it as <html> ->

I also added this to my submit code (saving in database)
$msg=addslashes($content);

So If a user uses this " php will add the slash infrot of, since I work with <HTML> code in the database.

So how can I say in php:

IF ":-D" than "<img width="19" height="19" src="/url/teeth_smile.gif">"

I have about 40 smilies. But the *.gif file name is not called as the shotcut! (":-D" == "teeth_smile.gif")

TTT

$storyText = "jsajdjasjd jj djajd sa 🙂 fwihh if 😉";

$newStory = str_replace("😉", "<img src='images/smiley1.gif'>", $storyText);

$newStory = str_replace("😉", "<img src='images/smiley2.gif'>", $newStory);

kumschick

yes but how to I tell that smilie:

:x = xy.gif
:y = yy.gif
:z = xz.gif
etc...?

To I add a table in mysql or what?

TTT

when you print whole text you replace smileys ; ) with str_replace()

and finaly

echo $newStory;

btw... didn't ment to use smileys in my previous post ... so those should be as a text.

shareaweb

This is a classic case of "You're gonna do too much work" with php that most newbies/intermediates face...

You said you have less than 100 smilies, so just use add them to an array (associative array of course) and then use the array functions to seek and replace as needed. You can easily add smilies to the array and delete them as needed.

Much faster thanb running database calls unless your using hundreds of smilies or changing them daily.

kumschick

that's what i'm doing... 🙂 found this out at php.net
hehe

but thx