Smilies

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I don't seem to be able to put the smilies in my posts.

See the following thread.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=198636

for whatever reason ( I am using Firefox ) the smilie doesn't appear.

This started happening when I was quoting another post, unfortunately I have no examples.

SantaHoe

You haven't by any chance got "Disable smilies in text" checked in your "Additional properties"?
What happens when you type a smiley? does it just show up as text? or get parsed to a smiley that never appears?

Try switching to pie.boards.ie .. I've had some weird problems cleared up when I did that.

Trojan

May be related to turning off of IMG tag in AH.

Amz

Don't think so Trojan, IMG tags are off in English, but smilies work fine.

Gordon

Is the problem when you are creating the message or after the message has been posted?

In my firefox 0.9.3 for Mac, upon clicking the smiley it appears in the message window pre-posting, and then appears fine post-posting.

Or are you typing the smiley?

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OK,

Here's a scenario.

I type up a post and choose a smiley from the smiley chooser dealy above the text, the smiley appears in the post as normal, then preview.

In Firefox : The image does not display, only the URL to the image, if I submit the message, it is the same.

In IE : The image displays in the preview, but not in the submitted post.

I don't have disable smileys ticked, I have looked in to this many times.

Can anyone help?

example here : I have not got "Disable smilies in text" ticked - maybe someone can tell me if they can see the smiley?



Strange, I can see that one now??

It is happening in AH and soccer forums, and never in other people's posts, as is said below.

Jim

I've noticed this happening at random times, but only for other peopls posts, never my own. Seen it happen about 6 or 7 times, goes away by itself though.

seamus

I just added one to your post no problem.

Are you putting in the Smilie code - :eek: for example, or are you pasting the link to the image into your post?

I say this because there's no reason why it would have [img]tags in your post. When you add the smilie code to your post, it gets entered into the database in that format. When then your post is pulled from the Database, vB then parses the page. If it comes upon :[/img]eek: for example, it replaces that with "<a href="....">, and if it sees the

ixoy

Have had the same problem as yourself, Seansouth. I get the URL sometimes, and not the smiley. There's no consistency to it either - seems more of a quirk than anything... (Also using FireFox but doubt that's the problem).

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I can see the "confused" one in my post up there.

What I do is I choose the smiley from the smiley chooser above the post writer screen.

I typed this -->
I chose this -->
I used : and ) -->

And they seem to be working fine in the preview

edit : but not in the submitted post.

I can see the "embarrassed" one no prob, but the other two have reverted to image tags?

seamus

Aha...ok

I'm using the standard editor, so I didn't know initially what you meant by "choosing a smilie from above the text". If you're using the enhanced editor and choose a smilie from the drop down, it uses

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Stop showing off.

Incidentally, this has only happened since the change to the new look vB.

What can you see in my post there, the one where I put the 3 different smilies in?

seamus

:eek:

I can only see the "embarrassed" smilie.

In your UserCP under options, have you got "Show Images" ticked?

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I do have that ticked.

Up there in that post, the one you can see, is the one I choose from the thing above the text.

The other two are ones I used the :: tag for, and just typed : and )

seamus

Funkeh.

Change your editor to the Standard one (again, in the options) and try it again.

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OK so, here goes.




:rolleyes:

:mad:

:eek:
:cool:


So, they all worked alright.

Where lies the problem?

seamus

Problem with the enhanced editor I guess, replacing smilie code with [img]tags. [Edit: Actually, it seems that the enhanced editor is replacing them with links to: "/vbulletin/templates/path_to_smilie/smiley.gif", as opposed to "http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/templates/path_to_smilie/smiley.gif&quot; So when you type smilie code, the enhanced editor replaces the code with a link that doesn't work, but when you insert a smilie using the drop-down, it inserts a valid URL, which is why the smilie appears. They don't display on After Hours because the[/img]

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I am not being smart, so please don't take this like I am.

Is it going to be fixed?

seamus

seansouth wrote:

I am not being smart, so please don't take this like I am.

Is it going to be fixed?

No idea. I'm not an administrator.

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seamus wrote:

No idea. I'm not an administrator.

Sorry,

ecksor

The brokenness here is that whichever menu you're using assume that the target forum allows smileys (rather than img tags being disabled which is presumably by design). For now it's best to just use the :whatever: format when possible.

oscarBravo

I wish to hereby register my support for the creation of a :whatever: smiley.

Man, what a useful device that would be...!

seamus

oscarBravo wrote:

I wish to hereby register my support for the creation of a :whatever: smiley.

Man, what a useful device that would be...!

:rolleyes: suffices for me tbh

seamus

ecksor wrote:

The brokenness here is that whichever menu you're using assume that the target forum allows smileys (rather than img tags being disabled which is presumably by design).

Since the drop-downs are just adding bbcode, would it not be just a matter of tweaking the dropdown in the enhanced editor to add the smilie codes instead of the [img]tags? Presumably, somewhere along the line, things such as :[/img]) and :eek: are being replaced by the editor with [img]tags) if the editor just added in valid URLs, or didn't parse smilies at all. [/img]

ecksor

That's true, but that wasn't the question ...

(the answer to the question I didn't answer is "I dunno").

Mercury_Tilt

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seamus

ecksor wrote:

That's true, but that wasn't the question ...

(the answer to the question I didn't answer is "I dunno").