Help Encoding Smilies Text

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Hi, I am in a spot of bother with the way smilies are dealt with in PHPBB. I am using a function to convert BBCode into HTML where necessary by using preg_replace and it works fine, however I cant figure out how to use preg_replace to display the smilies when a user uses one.

 

Here is the text that is output when a smilie is used:

 

<!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/001.png" alt="" title="Smile"><!-- s:) -->

 

I have been using the following although it is not working and I am wondering if someone can either point out where I have gone wrong or provide me with a solution to my problem - thankyou

 

$var = preg_replace('/\<!-- .*? --><!-- sg src="{SMILIES_PATH}\/(.*?)" alt=".*?" title=".*?" \/><!-- .*? -->/is', '<img src="http://www.xboxresource.com/forum/images/smilies/$1" />',$var); 

 

-EDIT- I fixed it, I simply used the following to replace {SMILIES_PATH} with the actual url and it worked - sorry for wasting your time

$var = str_replace("{SMILIES_PATH}","http://www.xboxresource.com/forum/images/smilies/",$var);