converting form data

[webdogjcn]

okay so I have a fast reply form and a link that lets you insert emoticons. well i have everything working where a pop-up appears and the emoticon text is displayed like ";sad;" (replace ; with :) and now I want to convert all instances (when they submit the form) of ;sad; with <image src="sad.gif" alt=sad>

[markduce]

OK, just use the str_replace function (string replace) as follows:

<?
$message=$_POST['message'];
// OR WHATEVER YOUR MESSAGE VARIABLE IS
$message=str_replace(';sad;', '<image src="sad.gif" alt=sad>', $message);
?>

Hope that helps

Mark

[webdogjcn]

Okay, thanks for the help. But one more question, what about convereting user entered line breaks to <br>?
Because when someone presses enter in a textarea it will just recognize it as a space not a line break.

[kenrbnsn]

When you want to display the text use the nl2br() function which will insert "<br ?>" tags before each newline character.
[code]<?php echo nl2br($message) ?>[/code]

Ken