Emoticon Formatting

[w3rra]

I have a shoutbox on my site called Ajap ahout, it's okay but it would be better if it autoformatted emoticons.
For example, when a user types ': )' it is translated into 🙂.
Would this be possible?
The code below is the function that sends the shout:

<?php
session_start();
?><br />
<?php
include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/arcade/bannedusers.php";
?>
<?php
/***************************************************************************
 *							 sendshout_xml.php
 *						---------------------------
 *								 Shouts =)
 *				
 * Customizations: If you change the structure, change the last write.
 * 				   You can also change all of the on die messages without 
 *				   worrying about screwing anything up =)
 *							
 ***************************************************************************/

/***************************************************************************
 *
 *   AJAP Shout is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *   (at your option) any later version.
 *
 ***************************************************************************/

function words($w)
{
	$w=explode(" ",$w);
	foreach($w AS $ww)
	{
		$new[]=badw($ww);
	}
return implode(" ",$new);
}

$restricted=array("-","+"," ","'",',',"/","%","&",".","-","<",">","{","}","[","]","\\","=",":","#","&","@","_","!","(",")","*"," ");			
function badw($data)
{
global $restricted;
$line = file('badwords.txt');
$line=explode(",",$line[0]);
    // Count this array
foreach($line AS $k)
{
$data2=str_replace($restricted,"",$data);
if(strstr(strtolower($data2),strtolower($k)))
{
return '';
exit();
}
}
return htmlspecialchars($data);
}

function sendshout() {

//define shout varibles and st00f
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];  

$name = words($_GET['name']);
$m = strip_tags(words($_GET['message']));

if(!$name | !$m)
	{
		$message = "Removed, Please Input A Proper Name/Message.";
		return $message;
		die;
	}

//define te xml file
$file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/shoutbox/shouts.txt";

//cut lines, so we don't have so much data in our file
function cutline($filename,$line_no=-1) {

$strip_return=FALSE;

$data=file($filename);
$pipe=fopen($filename,'w');
$size=count($data);

if($line_no==-1) $skip=$size-1;
else $skip=$line_no-1;

for($line=0;$line<$size;$line++)
if($line!=$skip)
fputs($pipe,$data[$line]);
else
$strip_return=TRUE;

return $strip_return;
}

//strip the last result, don't mess with this, unless you know what you're doing, or course =)
//if the shoutbox is showing "Error on line x", and you recently changed this, check this and fix your file
$i = 1;
while($i<5)
	{
		cutline($file,1);
		$i++;
	}

//write the new shout
$fh = fopen($file, 'a') or die("Could not write to file.");
$shout = '
<tr>
	<td align="right" width="18%"><!--'.$ip.'-->'.$name.'&nbsp;:&nbsp;</td>
	<td align="left" width="81%">'.$m.'</td>
</tr>';
fwrite($fh, $shout);
fclose($fh);

//message on success
$message = "<input type=\"submit\" id=\"submit\" value=\"Send\"/>";
return $message;
}

//perform the function =)
echo(sendshout());
?>

(Please could you show me exactly where to put it as I'm a n00b 🙂

Any help is greatly appreciated,
w3rra.

[coldwerturkey]

you could remove intend-to-use emoticon symbols from the $restricted array, then make a simple function like

function makeEmoticons($string) {
	$text = array (
		':)',
		';)',
		':(',
		//ect
	);
	$image = array (
		'<img src="emos/smile.gif" alt=":)" />',
		'<img src="emos/wink.gif" alt=";)" />',
		'<img src="emos/sad.gif" alt=":(" />',
		//etc
	);
	return str_replace($text, $image, $string);
}

then put it somewhere like,

$m = makeEmoticons(strip_tags(words($_GET['message']))); 

[w3rra]

Thanks for that, but where would I put it in the code?

[coldwerturkey]

w3rra;10913354 wrote:

Thanks for that, but where would I put it in the code?

just look at where/how the other functions are in place, TRY IT, and if you get an error, or a blank page, you did something wrong, & we're here to help

better yet, google it, and learn some basic pseudocode; I've seen the dumbest of dumb grasp the basic logic in under an hour.