Re: Another new PHP programmer question...

On Jan 3, 2008 3:56 AM, Ben Stones <bastones@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for your help previously everyone, I was able to fix that problem. > The thing now, is that I want to add smileys to the messages; i.e. :) would > equal to a smiley image when posting a message. Where you want that, add this: <? $smile = array(':-)' => 'smile', ':)' => 'smile', ';-)' => 'wink', ';)' => 'wink', ':-P' => 'tongue', ':P' => 'tongue'); foreach($smile as $p => $v) { // The following is done to allow the regexp to function normally. $p = str_replace(')','\)',str_replace('(','\(',$p)); $post = preg_replace('/'.$p.'/U','<img src="/graphics/smileys/'.$v.'.gif" />',$post); } ?> This assumes that you have smiley images in /graphics/smileys/ and that they're .gif images named as shown in the second part of each array item. Also, keep in mind that, before you insert ANY user-posted data into your database, you should escape it. For example: $post = mysql_real_escape_string($post); -- Daniel P. Brown [Phone Numbers Go Here!] [They're Hidden From View!] If at first you don't succeed, stick to what you know best so that you can make enough money to pay someone else to do it for you.