Maximum number of smilies in one post

[2005]

I have a forum where users can use bbcode to add smilies to their posts. The problem is that some users submit posts with just a few words, but with 20-30-40-50 and more smilies. Is there any way how to control this so that each post can not contain more than 3-5 smilies and if it contains more, all smilies are deleted from the message?

Thank you.

$message = str_replace("[1]", "<img src=\"images/smilies1/1.gif\" height=\"22\" width=\"22\" alt=\"\" /> ", $message);
$message = str_replace("[2]", "<img src=\"images/smilies1/2.gif\" height=\"22\" width=\"22\" alt=\"\" /> ", $message);
$message = str_replace("[3]", "<img src=\"images/smilies1/3.gif\" height=\"22\" width=\"22\" alt=\"\" /> ", $message);

[dougal85]

hmm, you could start with substr_count to find out how many they have put in. (http://uk2.php.net/substr_count).

Do you want to just display the code or not display anything?

[dougal85]

oo, this code I think is just what you want; http://www.help2go.com/Tutorials/Programming/PHP:How_to_replace_only_the_first_occurrence_in_a_string_with_str%11replace.html

😉