Quick and Dirty Emoticons

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Ever wondered how forums like VBulletin display emoticons? In this article Havard shows us a quick and dirty way to create and use our own emoticons with PHP and MySQL.You've probably seen the new trend of replacing standard smilies with emoticons. Emoticons are images that represent the common emotes like ":)", ":(", ";)" and ":P". You can see examples of emoticons in use if you visit one of the popular forums, such as the DevArticles forum.

In this tutorial I will explain how you can load emoticons from a database and replace all clear text smilies with their corresponding emoticons. This tutorial is meant for PHP and MySQL novices, however having some experience with database connectivity before starting is a good idea.

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