UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 Mod Questions Help with "Smilies in Sig" hack..

I have the "Smilies in Sig" hack basically working on my board, and it has been for some time now...but I have a slight problem. If a user enters their profile and puts :burn: in thier sig, the corresponding smilie shows up when they post. So it all works.....until they go into their sig the next time. THEN, the :burn: has been changed into the UBB [img] code (images are not allowed, but smilies are). If the user does not see this, and they submit changes, their smiles won't show up and all they get in there sig is the UBB code for the image that isn't allowed. Shoot, did that make sense??

Basically, the Smilie code is not staying when they edit their sig.

Thanks in advance!

Thats probably how the code was coded to do. Post the code that you need to use in ubbmisc.cgi and I'll try help you.

My guess is that it has to be in this bit of code. It gets put into the signature ok, and it works as advertised...until they edit their profile...then it all reverts to UBB code.


But then again, I could be wrong!! I'm going to do some more testing to see, and I'll report back.

OK, here is the sequence of events...which makes me wonder if it is the code above afterall.

I go into my profile and enter :burn: into my sig. I post a test message and it works. I look in my .cgi file via FTP and see that it is stored in html format. I can post at will and the smilie shows up....UNTIL


I go into my profile and change my interest (or anything but the smilie in the sig). I look at the sig box and see the instead of smilie code there is the html. After submitting changes (there needn't be any really), I post a test and the smilie is replaced with the UBB [img] code with the path to the image.

Now I look in my .cgi file and where the smilie code once was stored in html, it is now in UBB.

THAT may be the problem!! The smilie sub-routine is made for html, not UBB code...and somehow it is getting changed into the UBB code....the wheels are turning!!

Got it! Change this:


To this:


The code conversion takes place in postings.cgi, so there is no need for it to be converted prior to storage in the profile. Now, the :burn: doesn't get converted by the line that is commented out, and it gets stored in the profile as is....then when postings.cgi "sees" it when I post, it gets converted there! Thanks!!

[ July 18, 2001 07:32 AM: Message edited by: Vipermad ]