Replace Text With Smilies

[Radon3k]

I have a small news script that works like this:

index.php
Displays my news

add.php
Allows me to add the news and consists of a text field for the news title and a textarea for the actual news.

I want to be able to type something like : ) (no space) in the textarea and then have it converted to a smilie. I asked this on PHPBuilder.com and the nice guy that did his best to help me was stumped after a while. Any suggestions? Thanks. :)

[Xenon]

if you require vb's global.php you can use the bbcodeparse2 function.

if not, take at least a look at this function nto see how it parses smilies :)

[Radon3k]

Where would I find this? admin/functions.php?

[Xenon]

yes