Did you try saving the file yet?

yeah, thanks, that worked fine, m just worried that people might end up saving .php files and not .png files and get confused

I'll see what I can do. The curious part is why Firefox displays the ".php" part of it but IE doesn't.

Oops, doesn't work for me *yet*.... the only thing I can think of is I saved the php file in the WRONG place. LOL

http://www.simply-baby.net/forum/vba...=smiliecreator


Thank you ahead of time! :)

Nevermind... I fixed it... hehe

Ashley53680, good to see you go it working. :D

Hey that post at VBT not sure what that does?? Is it an addition to your hack? I would really like to use yours and allow people to click on the smilie created and have it place itself into the post? Forgive my ignorance!!

Mike

The one at VBT is for only in the post its used it.. If they want one to take away they need this hack here...

Ok ya I am trying to get something that places the smilie in a post directly from the editor ;)

I am sure our buddy here can do that!!

Mike

Mike,

The VBT trick is a BB code that creates the allusion of a smilie holding a sign. It does this by creating table that is 1 column by 2 rows; the first row has a border with a white background & contains the text that is typed in while the second row has no border & contains the smilie centered. The end result is a very nice looking table that gives the appearance of a smilie sign. It's a very simple & cool bb code trick. But, as others have pointed out, you can't save the image because it really isn't an image.

This hack creates an actual PNG file that the user can right-click save-as to their local PC. The problem appears to be that I was, to be candid, a bit short-sighted when I worked on it.

To clarify that last remark when I was working on this hack I knew about the VBT trick so in my head I thought that it eliminated the need of the original hack that this is based on because the same end results could be achieved, a smilie holding a sign inside of a post. That is why when I approached this hack as a learning experience I geared it more towards generic usage that could be used on just about any HTML page rather than just the VB forums. After all, I figured, why would anybody want to put additional overhead on their server to create the graphics inline, or to save all of the images on their server eating up drive space, if they didn't have to.

Well, based upon various feedback I was wrong. :ermm:

If you guys & gals can bear with me and give me a little bit of time I have a few ideas in floating around in my head on how to integrate this smilie maker with the VB3 editor. Priority wise I want to finish up some changes I'm doing to another hack, a modified version of external.php (search for FPS_EXTERNAL.PHP for that hack), and then my wedding is in a few weeks so my free time these days is very little but I would like to come back to this smilie creator and make the revisions to it so that it can be integrated into the VB3 editor. :nervous: