Image variable BBCode
 

After the .com failed me, I figured I should try here...

The history of my search:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=294887. The most important stuff:
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=58021. The most important stuff:

The problem is only, now I really don't know how to proceed. I have very little Javascript knowledge. I mean, I could probably get it to almost useful, but even then, it would be better just to use the images as smileys like now, because I have no idea how to get it to detect repeats or anything like that. So basically, I'm screwed. If anyone can tell me what kind of coding I need here... I'd also be prepared to pay for someone doing this modification, although my sums are somewhat limited...

Thanks in advance,
-Cadet, MTGDarkness admin

How long do these images get? If they always stay on the same line you could easily use a php image library to generate the string. Use bb code to change
[ul]{something}[/ul]
to
<img src="generateimage.php?string=something" alt="something" />

And have a php script that takes the query string and separates the characters, sends back image headers and displays the images for each. Probably best to use GD library for php.

This way you could use built in vb features and an external script instead of having to worry about fetching the information with javascript after the page loads.

The problem with that is that I need it to detect multiple images in the same code string. Unless I misunderstand you?

You could detect each character as an image like you said.
Such as letter
a = 'firstimg.png'
b = 'secondimg.png'

so [ul]aba[/ul] would return the 3 images in a row.

I was hinting more towards how to format the images? Are they all the same/size dimension, and will they all fit on a single display line or will some have to appear ontop of eachother when formatted because they're too large.

Such as
one line would have images ababaaab and they would flow over to the next line with images bbaba etc.

Hope that makes sense?

Either way it's still possible, you'll just have to include some math as well to calculate line widths and when to skip to the next if its too large.

Wow! Now I just need to figure out the library script to use... Can you give me any pointers there? I really have no idea whatsoever.

Basic functionality
Combine it with other php gd functions. Probably the ones you'll need [ Refrence ]
imagecreate()
imagecopymerge()
imagecreatefrompng() or imagecreatefromgif() or whichever format you're using

Basic idea:
Get each character from the query string, add up each images width to find total image size. If image a = 30pixels, b=200pixels, then ?string=aba would be 260pixels.
Use imagecreate to make a 260pixel image. Take image a copymerge it onto the background image from imagecreate, copymerge image b 30 pixels to the right of that, then copymerge image a again 230 pixels from origin of the background image.

Hope I didn't get too complex..

Also make sure GD is enabled on your server first (see PHP info).