Limiting the amnt of smilies...

[kikki]

Hi!
Sometimes when there are many smilies on a page, the page might load slowly, I wonder if there is a nice way to limit the amount of smilies on the post?

TIA

[wilku]

You mean like in general? Or you've got some specific script in mind?

For example if you're parsing posts for smilies with [man]preg_replace()[/man], changing smilies in ascii to their img counterparts, you can set the limit of replacements. The smilies outside a limit will stay as they were.

[kikki]

I wrote a little comment script, and able to add smilies, and I really want to avoid many smilies on the post(Like if there are many SAME kinda smilies repeated, the script should convert many SAME kinda smilies and replace with only one of it's kind..).

[Installer]

Do you mean you want to change this🙂🙂🙂 to this🙂, but leave 🙂this🙂 like 🙂this🙂 ?

Show us the code you have that parses the comments.

[kikki]

Hi Installer,
thanks for te reply.

no, it goes like this..

This:
Msg 🙂🙂😃😃

Into this:
Msg 🙂😃

//connect to mysql code
//$_GET selected userid code
// Prepare the query string ocde


// get comments code 
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
    {
        // list() is a convenient way of assign a list of variables
        list($id,$username,$comment,$user_ID,$date,$ip) = $row; //$id, 

    // change all HTML special characters,
    // to prevent some nasty code injection
        $comment = htmlspecialchars($comment);        
    // convert newline characters ( \n OR \r OR both ) to HTML break tag ( <br> )
    $comment = nl2br($comment);

	//Add Smilies.. simple way
$comment = str_replace(":)","&nbsp;<img src='smilies/smile.gif'>", $comment);
$comment = str_replace(":D","&nbsp;<img src='smilies/biggrin.gif'>", $comment);
$comment = str_replace(":(","&nbsp;<img src='smilies/sad.gif'>", $comment);

//HTML Table code..

[wilku]

In the code you wrote you don't add any smilies - you just add a space before every smile.
I think the job you're talking about should be done when you change :-) into <img src="">. This is an example of preg_replace:

preg_replace("|(:-\\)[ ]?)+|","<img src=\"smile.gif\"> ",$comment);

It will change "blah blah blah :-):-) :-) blah" into "blah blah blah <img src="smile.gif"> blah". So it will group the same smilies together.

[Installer]

I think you're going to need regular expressions for this. Unfortunately, my regex writer is off today. 🙂 🙂 🙂

This code will do it, as long as there are no spaces between the smilies:

// This line is just to make the next two simpler:
$comment = str_replace('<img src="images/smilies/smile.gif" border="0" alt="">',
                       '[smile here]', $comment);
while (strpos($comment, '[smile here][smile here]') !== false) {
    $comment = str_replace('[smile here][smile here]', '[smile here]', $comment);
}
$comment = str_replace('[smile here]', '&nbsp;<img src="smilies/smile.gif">', $comment);

With irregular spaces between some of the smilies it becomes more complicated.

Edit: I just saw wilku's reply; I'd go with his solution.

[kikki]

thanks guys... I'll try them out 🙂