Hi there. I'm trying to add smilies to a guestbook script. I have successfully used the same smiley script several times in other guestbooks but for some reason can't get it to work with this one. Below is the code I am using:

echo "\n".'<form method="post" action="'.SELF.'?func=sign" name="smile">
    
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function addsmiley(code)
{
var pretext = document.smile.message.value;
this.code = code;
document.smile.message.value = pretext + code;
}
//-->
</script>

<img src="image/smile/angel.gif" alt="image" onClick="addsmiley(':angel:')"/>&nbsp;    
    
<textarea name="mesg" id="mesg" cols="20" rows="4">'.$mesg.'</textarea><br/><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add" /></p></form>';

This produces the following error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':', expecting ',' or ';'

Any help would be much appreciated!

instead of that, try using a php break.

where you would have replace everything from 'echo' to ';' with this and see how it works.

PHP Code:

?>
<form method="post" action="<?=SELF ?>?func=sign" name="smile">
    
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function addsmiley(code)
{
var pretext = document.smile.message.value;
this.code = code;
document.smile.message.value = pretext + code;
}
//-->
</script>
<img src="image/smile/angel.gif" alt="image" onClick="addsmiley(':angel:')"/>&nbsp;    
    
<textarea name="mesg" id="mesg" cols="20" rows="4"><?=$mesg ?></textarea><br/><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add" /></p></form>
<?

Thank you SO much! That worked perfectly!

not a problem!

at the same time, do you understand how it works?

Not really, lol. I don't know a whole lot about PHP but seem to be able to manipulate scripts to do what I want :-P

Ah. One more question. It works great for showing the smilies but it doesnt show the smiley code in the textarea when I edit a post. Any idea why?

first off; what i showed you is a php break. it tells the php engine to stop parsing php and just throw out html.

PHP Code:

<?=$var ?>

is the same as

PHP Code:

<?php
echo $var;
?>

it just makes it a little easier.

what does it show when you edit a post? something else or nothing at all?