UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing How Do I? Making the Smilies appear bigger

Hi there

How can I make the smilies in my forum appear bigger.
I have uploaded new smilies and I kept the names the same, for example, smile.gif or thumbs_up.gif.

The new smilies are a bit bigger.
So when they users select them, they appear in the same width, height the old ones did.

Any way I can set the smilie width, height in code?

just ftp'ing them on top of the originals won't work, because there is a calculated height x width when they are uploaded via the admin cpanel.

so you are inheriting the old width/height..

2 ways to proceed:

1) delete all smileys via admin cpanel and then upload them each again. new width/height will be calculated
2) run phpmyadmin (or equivalent) and massage the ubbt_GRAEMLINS table, modifying the GRAEMLIN_WIDTH and GRAEMLIN_HEIGHT to what they should be.

note: i'm not sure, but you may then have to also go to your admin cpanel afterwords and rebuild all posts and signatures, so the graemlins get 're-imaged'..

good luck

one further note.

IF you are 'lucky' and all your new graemlins are consistent in their size, you can go to your admin cpanel and run the following query..


where ww is width and hh is height (common to all)

Thanks for the help.

The Query you gave me, is not showing in the box?

When I delete all smilies in the cpanel and add them again, will they still appear at the right places in the posts afterwards?

When I rebuild the post and signatures, what will happen exactly? Will all the posts still be there?

not showing in the box ? have no idea what you mean..

1) yes they are preserved

2) yes, yes

In IE7 the SQL query you posted doesn't show up. It is just a quote box with a horz slider but no code showing.

If you do a quickquote on your post you can see the query in the reply window (in IE7).

update ubbt_GRAEMLINS set GRAEMLIN_WIDTH=ww, GRAEMLIN_HEIGHT=hh

^^ that is the query

yeah, I meant to write "...on the post..." instead of "...on your post..." since I figured you knew what it was!

Thanks for your help Sirdude