oi! only five smilies per post...how?

[redgoals]

is there a function in php to limit the amount of smilies that can be entered into a form, or will it have to be a javascript approach?

[FireFly]

How do you parse smilies? (i.e turning them into images)

Whichever function you are using, you can just do this:

if (substr_count(parseSmilies($text), '<img')>5) {
  // more than 5 smilies
}