Adding Smilies in Blogs?

[Black_Hobbit]

Hi I'm designing my own simple blog and am stugling with finding to best way to impliment smilies in my blogs.

What I plan to do is get the blog form the user, via a form (which I've done) and then put that in a var, to be ultimately sent to the DataBase. So I've got the Blog text in the var $blog.

<?php

$blog = " Today I worked on my blog. :-) :-P ::-) :-&"; 

//for our puposes lets just forget about the form right now


//What is the most efficiant way of developing a smilies system?

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What is the most efficiant way of developing a smilies system? (consedering I plan to develop a method of add smilies (with smilie codes) using another table in my database?)

[yelvington]

If you read the manual page for str_replace() you'll see that any of the arguments can be an array of strings, not merely a string.

What you need to do is build an array of search (text smilies), and a corresponding array of replace (presumably img tags).

Either could be hardcoded or derived from a database.

[Black_Hobbit]

Cool, thanks! I'll use that, since that appears to be the only way.