<?php /* This script has been written for mysql but the code shouldnt be too different to this. The table required is a table called: smilies below the sql query to create such a table.
CREATE TABLE smilies ( id INT( 10 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , smilie VARCHAR( 10 ) NOT NULL , image VARCHAR( 30 ) NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( id ) );
example usage: After pulling information from the database call the function smilies eg: smilies($row['somedate']); would replace all instances of the smilies from the database with the appropriate html/image.
*/ function smilies($text){ $path="image"; //Specify the direcory in which images are stored $sql = "SELECT smilie, image FROM smilies"; //Select the smilies from the database //along with the names of the image files to //replace them $rs = mysql_query($sql); //Run the query while($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs)) { //Loop through the results creating two arrays $smilies[] = $row['smilie']; //Create array of smilie texts $images[] = "<img src='" . $path . "/" . $row['image'] . "'>"; //create array of image replacments with the html in it. } $text=str_replace($smilies, $images, $text);//Replace the smilies with the images. } ?>
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