A better way to replace emoticons in PHP?

Question 1

Right now I am using this function for emoticons:

function emoticons($text) {
        $icons = array(
                ':)'    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="smile" class="icon_smile" />',
                ':-)'   =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="smile" class="icon_smile" />',
                ':D'    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="smile" class="icon_laugh" />',
                ':d'    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="laugh" class="icon_laugh" />',
                ';)'    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="wink" class="icon_wink" />',
                ':P'    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="tounge" class="icon_tounge" />',
                ':-P'   =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="tounge" class="icon_tounge" />',
                ':-p'   =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="tounge" class="icon_tounge" />',
                ':p'    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="tounge" class="icon_tounge" />',
                ':('    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="sad face" class="icon_sad" />',
                ':o'    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="shock" class="icon_shock" />',
                ':O'    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="shock" class="icon_shock" />',
                ':0'    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="shock" class="icon_shack" />',
                ':|'    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="straight face" class="icon_straight" />',
                ':-|'   =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="straight face" class="icon_straight" />',
                ':/'    =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="straight face" class="icon_straight" />',
                ':-/'   =>  '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="straight face" class="icon_straight" />'
        );
        return strtr($text, $icons);
    }

But if you enter a link the :/ part of http:// gets replaced:

Same with code (4 spaces in front of each line to create code box), but for some reason a simple ) gets replaced (with a wink) as well:

Is there a better solution to this than replacing all of the icons like this? It obviously doesn't work good. I have searched on Google a lot and haven't found any better way. I also tried putting a space before each emoticon in the associative array above but that doesn't work if you just enter a :) without anything before it.

Question 2

You can use the preg_replace function and then use word boundaries in the regular expression.

 foreach($icons as $icon=>$image) {
      $icon = preg_quote($icon);
      $text = preg_replace("~b$iconb~",$image,$text);
 }

You need to use word boundaries and not white space because this will take care of the start and end points to. Needing a space before means that just a :) won't be found.

Question 3

iconv("utf-8","ascii//TRANSLIT",$input);

Extended example

Question 4

For simple replacements, strtr seems to be faster, but when you have complex replacements with many search strings, it appears that str_replace has the edge.

Question 5

You have the right idea. Use sequence unpacking to iterate each pair of values:

def replaceAllSubStrings(originalString, replacementArray):
    for in_rep, out_rep in replacementArray:
        originalString = originalString.replace(in_rep, out_rep)
    return originalString

Question 6

You can start with raising an event when user login is success on the rootscope using broadcast method

$rootScope.$broadcast('userLoggedIn',{user:user});

On the appController you can subscribe to the even

$scope.$on("userLoggedIn",function(event,args) {
     $scope.menuUrl=null;
     $scope.menuUrl="partials/nav.html";
});

this also implies that change your menuUrl to a property in you controller and html binding.

Alos, if you can define multiple server views for logged in and anonymous user, then you can just flip the view on user login.

A better way to replace emoticons in PHP?

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