Umm. . . not sure what I should call this thread

[Emon]

I was wondering if it is even possible to have replacement codes. ..kinda like the codes here, such as the smilie replacements. I know it can be done using php and stuff, but I am limited to what I can use. . pretty much client side stuff. .hence the reason for posting in here.

So is it possible to setup quick codes that would allow an image to replace them? So this happens --->

Either using Javascript, CSS or DHTML if possible in any of them, would be more than welcomed.

Thanks in advance.

[tthurgo]

Never heard of anything like that.

Do you mean parsing code on the client side?

Tom

[favo]

maybe this helps:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

var yourtext = "blabla :smile1: blabla";

var parsedtext = yourtext.replace (/:smile1:/, "<img src=smile1.gif>");

document.write (parsedtext);

</SCRIPT>

[Emon]

Ok. .so now how do I apply it so it will change all occurences of :smile: in a given html document?

[Nate]

Emon,

That is the essence of server-side programming. Client-side programming doesn't run until the HTML document is already downloaded to the browser, so I would conclude that there isn't a way to replace a given text in a whole HTML doc. If there is some loophole in javascript that lets you do it, it would probably be 3 pages worth of code and it would take 30-60 seconds for the browser to process it, which would turn users away pretty quick.

Sorry man,
Nate

[tthurgo]

Originally posted by Emon
Ok. .so now how do I apply it so it will change all occurences of :smile: in a given html document?

As favo stated, you would have to read the entire HTML document into the variable yourtext. However, I am not sure how that could be achieved through JavaScript.

As Nate put it, you might want to look into server-side programming.

Tom

[Till]

Originally posted by Emon
I was wondering if it is even possible to have replacement codes. ..kinda like the codes here, such as the smilie replacements. I know it can be done using php and stuff, but I am limited to what I can use. . pretty much client side stuff. .hence the reason for posting in here.

So is it possible to setup quick codes that would allow an image to replace them? So this happens --->

Either using Javascript, CSS or DHTML if possible in any of them, would be more than welcomed.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Emon!

Not exactly made for smilies, but for parsing XML through JavaScript is the following tutorial. I went over it and it's quite a tough read, too much hassle for a little parsing if you ask me. But whatever floats your boat.

Check it out: http://www.webreference.com/js/column103/

Maybe you can adapt some things and go from there.