Text to Smileys

Platform: PHP

Published Apr 10, 2006

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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okay just upload it to any website, and have $msg at everything you want to have a smiley face. YOU MUST HAVE THE SMILEY FILE NAME ON YOUR WEBSERVER/WEBSITE <B>THE TEXT HAS TO BE THE SAME :p won't be the same as :P</b>

<?php 



function smiley($msg) { 

      $msg = ereg_replace("!","<img src=!.png alt=\"!\" >", $msg); 

      $msg = ereg_replace(":D","<img src=laugh.gif alt=\":D\" >", $msg); 

      $msg = ereg_replace(":p","<img src=tongue.gif alt=\":p\" >", $msg); 

      return $msg; 

} 



 $msg = "Hi ! <br> Hello :D<br> Heheh :p"; 

 echo smiley($msg); 



?>

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MarioErmando - May 30, 2012

Works perfectly! :)

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Chat-Police - Jun 20, 2007

PHP newbie here....

this looks like it would be great for my site... I\'ve tried to get it runnng with no luck. couple of questions

1) what do i call the php file?
2) how do you get it to work lol. ie do you type \"$msg = :D\" to replace text to smiley.

could you explain a little please for me sorry

thanks C-P

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cooolstar - Jun 21, 2006

this is good for beginners.
but also it was included in php manual
Hawkee asked for arrays, i also used, but newbei must have an idea to use replace function
any ways it nice to paste here
Fawad

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Earl - Apr 11, 2006

pretty simple but good work

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Hawkee - Apr 10, 2006

Now you can let it take in an array of smiley shortcuts and images. Just set up a loop that extracts the smilies and image URLs from a table in mySQL.

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