Help In 2 Parts

[ewcreators 0]

Please HElp.Can you teach me :a) How to use smilies with php so that if i want to create a post office or forum , a person who posts with or will get a smiley pic instead of just or . How to divide mysql results into pages~Thanks!

[galexcd 0]

For your smilies you can just use a php replace function. You could use preg_replace, but thats kind of a waist because smilies aren't as complex as bbcode so I suggest using str_replace
Here is an example of how you would do this:

$string=str_replace(array(":)",":P",":D",":("),array("<img src='/emoticons/happy.gif","<img src='/emoticons/toungue.gif","<img src='/emoticons/grin.gif","<img src='/emoticons/sad.gif"),$string);echo $string;

or if you find it easier to write it out you could write it like this:

$search=array(":)",":P",":D",":(");$replace=array("<img src='/emoticons/happy.gif","<img src='/emoticons/toungue.gif","<img src='/emoticons/grin.gif","<img src='/emoticons/sad.gif");$string=str_replace($search,$replace,$string);echo $string;

I found the best way to divide sql results into pages is by using limit. Take in a variable lets say "page" through the url via get, and use this code:

$rowsperpage=5; mysql_query("SELECT * FROM whatever your sql query is goes here LIMIT ".($_GET['page']*$rowsperpage-$rowsperpage).",".($_GET['page']*$rowsperpage-1));

You should also add checks to make sure that $_GET['page'] is greater than 0

[Saint_Michael 3]

Well to start off I would check out this tutorial how up to set up a smilie system for your website, and since the posts is only a few months old it "should" work. Now to get the smilies to work besides using php would be images, what I suggestion is google emoticons, then click on images, then click small images and then download away which ones that work best for you.


Now for your second problem I would check out these tutorials and see which one works the most effectively.

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
https://www.nicksays.co.uk/

I would start with the second tutorial first as it seems less confusing as the others, and the fact its all on one page.