A better way to replace emoticons in PHP?

Question

Right now I am using this function for emoticons:

function emoticons($text) {
        $icons = array(
                \':)\'    =>  \'

        

Answer 1

I'm not sure whether it will work or not, but I'd try to put some extra spaces like this:

function emoticons($text) {
    $icons = array(
            ' :) '    =>  '  ',
            ' :-) '   =>  '  ',
            ' :D '    =>  '  ',
            ' :d '    =>  '  ',
            ' ;) '    =>  '  ',
            ' :P '    =>  '  ',
            ' :-P '   =>  '  ',
            ' :-p '   =>  '  ',
            ' :p '    =>  '  ',
            ' :( '    =>  '  ',
            ' :o '    =>  '  ',
            ' :O '    =>  '  ',
            ' :0 '    =>  '  ',
            ' :| '    =>  '  ',
            ' :-| '   =>  '  ',
            ' :/ '    =>  '  ',
            ' :-/ '   =>  '  '
    );
    return strtr($text, $icons);
}