[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by richy96

Tried what you said Joe and had no joy with that. I banged my head against this for another hour

I even in desparastion tried a temporary edit of class_bbcode.php on my test site, adding another case of 'test' to the Switch statement where I declared the $dohtml, $dobbcode, $doimagecode, $dosmilies all to = true..... and I still got no smilies

Then just as I was going to post back here with my woes it dawned on me what is going on and I looked at the page html source

bbcode parser is indeed parsing the damn smilies (and possibly was all along) the real problem is it produces html like

<img src="images/smilies/new/googled.gif ..... />

And that ain't gonna work on my homepage as from my VBa module I am executing in http://swapscene.com and not http://swapscene.com/forums so of course the path is wrong and nothing shows up!!!

Now how the hell do I get myself out of that one?

Rich

Ahh.. that's what happens when you use a browser that doesn't show broken image place holders.

Again I was in a similar situation. What I ended up doing was editing my smileys to change their paths from "image/smilies/happy.gif" to "/forums/images/smilies/happy.gif"

This will insure they display properly on all pages they are called.

I was also told instead of editing every single smiley I could have used the "replacement variable manager" in the styles to replace images/smilies with /forums/images/smilies and get the same results.