note 50700 deleted from function.str-replace by bjori

Note Submitter: Jesse ---- str_replace can do many things, including smileys, bad word replacement, and even manually taking out bad HTML code. doing smileys is easy, first, create a jpg called smiley and add the following code to your form handling script: $posting = str_replace(":)", "<img src=smiley.jpg width=50 height=50>", $posting); also, taking out bad words is easy, too: $posting = str_replace("badword", "*******", $posting); then, lets say you want a form handler that keeps some HTML code to let people do things like post images, but not let them change the page's formatting. use str_replace! $posting = str_replace("BADHTMLCODE", "", $posting); finally, you can even make a scripting language like vBcode, like this: $posting = str_replace("[IMG]", "<img src>", $posting); $posting = str_replace("[URL]", "<a href>", $posting); $posting = str_replace("[/URL]", "</a>", $posting); $posting = str_replace("[CODE]", "<pre><p>code:</p>", $posting); $posting = str_replace("[/CODE]", "</pre>", $posting); The list of things you can do goes on and on!