Emoticons

[therunes]

is there a wey to make an admin-type page where you can update a php file for emoticons?
let me explain what i want. i have a php file that i include in a document and it turns :) into graphical ones and such. what i want is to be able to use an admin page to add more smilies to that file. while NOT using MYSql. I know some messageboards have this. they have a place for the path to the graphic and a place for the code to the smilie. can it be done heres my emoticon.php file:

<?
function Do_faces ($article) {
$article = nl2br($article);
$article = str_replace(":)","<img src=\"/images/smiles/smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">",$article);
$article = str_replace(":(","<img src=\"/images/smiles/frown.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">",$article);
$article = str_replace(":p","<img src=\"/images/smiles/tongue.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">",$article);
$article = str_replace(":o","<img src=\"/images/smiles/redface.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">",$article);
$article = str_replace(":D","<img src=\"/images/smiles/biggrin.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">",$article);
$article = str_replace(";)","<img src=\"/images/smiles/wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">",$article);
return $article;
}
?>

[freddydoesphp]

Okay so your first issue, I would store the smilies and their graphic name in a text file, then I would read the text file in and use str_replace() array support to knock them all out in one swoop. This way you can smilies to the text file and never have to touch the function.
The text file

:)||smile.gif
:(||frown.gif
:p||tongue.gif
:o||redface.gif
:D||biggrin.gif
;)||wink.gif

The PHP function to transform the smilies into graphics.

function DoFaces($article) {
    $data = file("smilies.txt");
    foreach($data as $key => $val) {
        $tmp = explode("||", $val);
        $faces[] = $tmp[0];
        $pics[] = '<img src="/images/smiles/'.$tmp[1].'" border="0" alt="">';
        }
    $article = nl2br($article);
    $article = str_replace($faces, $pics, $article);    
    return $article;
    }


$article = DoFaces($article); 

Now an admin tool should be fairly easy to make all you need to do is use PHP's filesystem functions to open the file and write to it or simply add to it manually.

[therunes]

thanks... i can figure out how to make an admin... :P