forum emocons

[DsgnrsTLZAdmin]

How would you go about displaying emocons in a forum? I guess you'd search the string for :smile: :wink: stuff like that, then when it find it, it gets replaced with an image tag. How would I go about that? is that basically how its done?

[Nightfire]

You'd use str_replace()

example

$str = "hello :)";
$str = str_replace(":)","<img src='smile.gif'>",$str);
echo $str; 

[MPCODER]

Where should u put this? On a page that puts things in Forums? Or in a page that displays the forum messages? And: Does this work when you block HTML?
Cheers MPCODER

[Nightfire]

I personally put them in a function to convert after the mysql query, other's may do it before it's added to the database, I guess it's best to add it into the db to save on resources and such.

[DsgnrsTLZAdmin]

it works.....well it prints the right code to the tag...but its not being parsed because i have to use htmlentities so what now?

[DsgnrsTLZAdmin]

$threadd = htmlentities($thread);
$threadd = str_replace(":lol:","<img src='/forum/layout/icon_lol.gif'>",$threadd);


i used that and it works great. Thanks a TON man.