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Smilies not showing

Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 10:13 am
by Richard
Hi I am havig trouble getting smilies to show on my forum.

I have uploaded the smilies to the Images / Smilies folder of my file manager but they will not show when I log into the forum. I hve purged the cache and refreshed the style several times without any joy.

When I got to ACP /Posting / smilies / add multiple smilies, the smilie will show up. But when I enter a smilie code and emotion the image shows up as a box with red cross inside.

I am using prosilver theme and all smilies are saved as gif files.

Here are a couple of pics to show what I mean

Re: Smilies not showing

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:03 am
by DavidIQ
Have you modified any of the .htaccess files anywhere on your site/forum?

Re: Smilies not showing

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:55 pm
by Richard
Hi David

The only things I have changed is the following mod http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 0&t=748155 and the standard board set up through the ACP

Here is a link to my board http://www.forum.koi-corner.net/

Re: Smilies not showing

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:48 pm
by DavidIQ
PM me FTP details for your site so I can take a look. I'll also register to take a better look. I'll need to be admin.

Re: Smilies not showing

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:01 pm
by Richard
Hi David

I have made you admin of the forum and PM'd you the link to the ftp files

Cheers

Richard

Re: Smilies not showing

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:27 pm
by DavidIQ
I can't actually go in using the link you PMd me but it's ok. I think I see what's going on. Try renaming the smiley gif files and remove the brackets from the name and try again i.e. I see that you have 021[1].gif as one of the smilies. Try renaming it to 021_1.gif and try it again and see if that does the trick. This could just be a bug in phpBB3. I'll wait and see the results of renaming the image files before I report it over at phpBB.com.

Re: Smilies not showing

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:33 pm
by Richard
Should I rename the original files and download them again or just rename them in ACP :?:

Re: Smilies not showing

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:39 pm
by DavidIQ
No...physically rename them through FTP and then go to ACP and try adding the smilie again. Only do 1 of them...this is only a guess as to what's really wrong. I'd have done it myself but I'd need FTP login credentials and all that jazz. Might as well let you do it and we both learn something in the process ;-)

Re: Smilies not showing

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:18 pm
by Richard
Hi David

I changed the smilie name in the ftp file as you suggested. I installed 2 smilies and they both show up as they should.

Thanks so much for your help. :D

Re: Smilies not showing

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:32 pm
by DavidIQ
Excellent! Glad I could help :-)