Thanks burnz, small mod, but VERY useful :)

What version of vB are you using? And do you store avatars in the database or as files? And is your avatar a custom one or a pre-defined avatar?

Sorry,

• We run vb3,
• We store the avatars in images/avatars and import them into VB through the admin panel.
• It was a predefined avatar that I had previously uploaded to the images/avatars directoy and I imported it using the admin panel.

Great stuff:D

Hello ? This can't be true. I have to manually edit all the 60 Standard Smilies ? This can work for some people but we proudly present 1001 Smilies on our domain. How should i handle this please ? I do not want to manually edit 1001 + 60 Smilies on my own.

Hack creator ? Could you please take one action item to find a better solution here for this problem ?

Hint: The old vbhome lite version had a replacement variable like {imageshome} for each style which solved this problem. But with your hack this does not work yet.

Any comments ?

Cheers,

Addition to my last request:

Performance is also a big thing here. For every http:// link in your source code the client browser opens a complete new session over http. This is a big performance overhead for our amount of smilies. Please help to find a better solution.

Thanks.

Cheers,

A script has already been released in this thread by Natch to automatically change all the smilie URLs.

NTLDR, instead of having the user alter his smilies, have you thought of applying a regex on the text containing smilies (add the full url dynamically to them) before "you eval" the templates with it?

Thanks. You got it.

NTLDR ? The main reason for not willing to alter all the smilies to the full URL is the performance issue. Again ... if you alter all smilies to http://blablabla/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif from the original /forum/images/smilies/smile.gif you increase the connections to the server dramatically.

I hope this has made my problem clearer. Do you know what i am talking about now ?

Cheers,

Great hack! But I am having one problem... I upgraded from vb 2.3.4 to vb 3.0 today and everything works fine except vbindex will not display the text from my 'news' posts... I checked the length and it's set to display 150 characters. What could be wrong?