This is a line with a smiley in the middle.
This is a line with http://a.smiley..in.an.url.bbcode.
This is a line with a smiley in an HTML link
Obvious problem is obvious.

Kafuka

if (!$nosmilies) { for($i=0;$i<$smilies[num];$i++) $msg=str_replace($smilies[$i][text],'«'.$smilies[$i][text].'»',$msg); for($i=0;$i<$smilies[num];$i++) $msg=str_replace('«'.$smilies[$i][text].'»','<img src=".$smilies[$i][url]." align=absmiddle border=0 alt="'.$smilies[$i][text].'" title="'.$smilies[$i][text].'">',$msg); }

Wordpress

function convert_smilies($text) { global $wp_smiliessearch; $output = ''; if ( get_option('use_smilies') && !empty($wp_smiliessearch) ) { // HTML loop taken from texturize function, could possible be consolidated $textarr = preg_split("/(<.*>)/U", $text, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE); // capture the tags as well as in between $stop = count($textarr);// loop stuff for ($i = 0; $i < $stop; $i++) { $content = $textarr[$i]; if ((strlen($content) > 0) && ('<' != $content{0})) { // If it's not a tag $content = preg_replace_callback($wp_smiliessearch, 'translate_smiley', $content); } $output .= $content; } } else { // return default text. $output = $text; } return $output; }

Worth a look?

Edit: source - demo