By TSNetwork on

Hello,
here's what I need. I'll just give an example to make things easier.

When someone writes the word "emotion" in their comment, the word automatically changes to an image of an emoTIcon when they post.

I'll try to explain it now. I need some way to have words in comments converted automatically to embeded images or flash movies.

How do I do that? I tried a couple of things that didn't work, maybe you can recommend a module?
Thank you.

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yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

http://drupal.org/node/210551

TSNetwork’s picture

TSNetwork commented

Thanks for the detailed post but I don't see how can I do that with this module...

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kscheirer
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commented

When text is being rendered for output, filters let you modify the text before the user sees it. Typically this is stuff like removing dangerous html, or converting strings like "#12345: How do I log in as admin?" into a url "http://drupal.org/node/12345". In your case, you want to convert the emoticon into an image.

This article is a very detailed explanation of how filters and input formats work - http://www.lullabot.com/articles/drupal-input-formats-and-filters

This module looks very similar to what you're describing, http://drupal.org/project/smileys

Hope that helps!