Right now I am using this function for emoticons:
function emoticons($text) {
$icons = array(
':)' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="smile" class="icon_smile" />',
':-)' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="smile" class="icon_smile" />',
':D' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="smile" class="icon_laugh" />',
':d' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="laugh" class="icon_laugh" />',
';)' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="wink" class="icon_wink" />',
':P' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="tounge" class="icon_tounge" />',
':-P' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="tounge" class="icon_tounge" />',
':-p' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="tounge" class="icon_tounge" />',
':p' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="tounge" class="icon_tounge" />',
':(' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="sad face" class="icon_sad" />',
':o' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="shock" class="icon_shock" />',
':O' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="shock" class="icon_shock" />',
':0' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="shock" class="icon_shack" />',
':|' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="straight face" class="icon_straight" />',
':-|' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="straight face" class="icon_straight" />',
':/' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="straight face" class="icon_straight" />',
':-/' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="straight face" class="icon_straight" />'
);
return strtr($text, $icons);
}
But if you enter a link the :/
part of http://
gets replaced:
Same with code (4 spaces in front of each line to create code box), but for some reason a simple )
gets replaced (with a wink) as well:
Is there a better solution to this than replacing all of the icons like this? It obviously doesn't work good. I have searched on Google a lot and haven't found any better way. I also tried putting a space before each emoticon in the associative array above but that doesn't work if you just enter a :) without anything before it.