Get postid # in a thread?

Hi,

I have a news catagory in one of my forums, with about 50% of the posts containing attached images... (see http://www.pcreview.co.uk/showthread...=&threadid=154 for example)

I am currently attaching the image, then editing the post and adding [ IMG ] attachment.php?s=&postid=xxx [/ IMG ] in the post, because I now know the postid #

I cant just tell VB to show the image in the post in the news options, because I need it in various places in the post

Is there any way to modify VB so that I can add a string in a post, and when it is posted, it appears as the attached image?

Thanks, Ian

[xware]

[ IMG ] attachment.php?s=&postid=$post[postid][/ IMG ]

[Ian Cunningham]

I have just posted a test reply, with that in... but it doesnt work, it shows the URL of the broken image as attachment.php?s=&postid=$post[postid]

So theoretically, just posting $post [postid] should give this thread a number:

$post[postid]

[xware]

Sorry.
Maybe I miss your meaning.
You need edit the every postid=xxx to some acture postid.
There xxx is the attach's postid.

[Ian Cunningham]

Is there any code I can stick in the post that will automatially do that?

[xware]

Oh, I think you can use usercp to change options:
Show image attachments and [img] code in Posts?
set it to yes.
Then the attchimage will display.

[Ian Cunningham]

If I do that, I cant select where the image is though?

What I really need is to somehow replace "{postid}" with the actual post ID?

[Admin]

You can try this. In functions.php replace:

  //smilies
  if($dosmilies) {

with:

  global $post;
  $bbcode = str_replace('{postid}', $post['postid'], $bbcode);
  //smilies
  if($dosmilies) {

[Ian Cunningham]

Thanks FireFly, I'll give that a shot

[Ian Cunningham]

It works! (in part anyway )

When I view the thread with showthread.php it works great! But, I'm mainly viewing it via webnews.php, from the PluhNews script, and it doesnt parse {postid} as a number

I've tried including functions.php, but no success Any Ideas?