PHP replace characters with icons emoticons tutorial

PHP replace characters with icons emoticons tutorial

Listening Video

Learn to use PHP to change character sequences into emoticons or icons by using the str_replace function. You will want to alter the string data as it comes out of the MySQL database for display, not when the data is being inserted into the database.

Lesson Code

<?php

$db_str = "Show me some <3 right now. It is raining 

today [umbr], that gives me peace [peace].";

echo $db_str;

echo "<hr />";

$chars = array("<3", "[peace]", "[umbr]");

$icons = array("&#10084;", "&#9774;", "&#9730;");

$new_str = str_replace($chars,$icons,$db_str);

echo $new_str;

?>

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