Chat TextArea or what ?

[Panjabel]

Hello

What do you use for chat to show smiles and text,

i tried with textarea's but it doesn't work.

Please advice

Thanks

[pocobueno1388]

I really can't understand what you are asking...explain it a little more.

 

 

[MasterACE14]

I'm guessing what you mean is, "How can you put 'graphic' smilies in a text area". I have no idea lol, pocobueno1388 might be able to help now.

 

Regards ACE

[pocobueno1388]

To do that you need to find if they put a smiley in their text, then replace it with the image to the smiley.

 

So say everytime someone put this   You would want to replace it with a smiley.

 

<?php

$pattern = "";
$replacement = "<img src=\"path/smiley.jpg\">"; //This would be the path to the smiley pic
$string = "Hello "; //This would be whatever text you wanted to put a smiley in

echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);

?>

[taith]

nope! still cant... textareas only show raw text... you cant put any images into a textbox... it'd just show the <img> now... with ie... the <div> can have a attrib of contenteditable... which would show images... but i dont think ff does support that...

[pocobueno1388]

No! Of course images are not going to show up in the textarea. You take the raw text, insert it into the database, then perform the code I gave you above to display it to the screen.

 

I'm still confused on exactly what you are trying to do, so if you give me some more detail I can help you more.

 

If you don't want it in the textarea, why don't you just echo the text to the screen using echo or print?

[AV1611]

enter the text in a textbox, display the text in an iframe

They both look the same, at least with a little css...

or if you don't like iframes, then use a table cell, but iframe

will let you use scrollbars like the textbox will

[dbillings]

clicky clicky

 

http://dennisbillings.com/smiley.php

 

What you'll need to understand

 

http://weblogtoolscollection.com/regex/regex.php - regular expressions

 

http://w3schools.com/html/default.asp - HTML

 

http://php.net/ - PHP syntax and predefined functions

 

Patience....

 

<?php

IF(ISSET($_REQUEST['submit'])){

$string= $_REQUEST['text'];


$pattern = "/:\)/";
$replacement = "<img src=\"images/tongue.gif\">"; //This would be the path to the smiley pic

echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);

}

?>

<form method="post" action="<?PHP $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<textarea name="text"></textarea><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

 

[fert]

He wants to know how to make a WYSIWYG editor

this should help you http://www.devguru.com/features/tutorials/wysiwyg/wysiwyg1.html