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Originally posted by Buddha
the first option you suggest here didn't work, however the second one did. problem is, it adds 2 querries. which is just not worth it for smilies. i'll have to see what this might be.
i wonder if it does have to do with the fact that i'm still on 2.27?

That may be the reson why it doesn't work, I know the smiles appear in my 2.2.8 testboard. I changed it to reduce the number of queries, like you said, its not worth it for the extra load.

The code you copy from index.php is only used to generate the users online bit, so it doesn't matter if its taken from 2.2.4, 2.2.6 or 2.2.8 etc..