UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing How Do I? adding new gremlins

im trying to add new gremlins to my new fourm. in the brouse box i paste the link http://resoattitude.free.fr/phpBB2/images/smiles/icon_beer2.gif

and add a single word like it asks but i get the good old red x after in the lineup. what anm i doing wroung?

I think you need to upload the images to...

/forums/images/graemlins/

o from my puter?

Yep save the image first, then upload it to your site

im sorry to keep botghering you guys but now that i have done it wrong i try to do it the rite way and it says the file allready is there. so i go to that file that is showing up as a red x and try to delete it and i get this?

Unable to remove icon. Please check permissions on the files in your /images/icons/default directory and try again.

im not haveing much luck. any hints on how to get rid of the wrongly loaded ones?

Don't worry about bothering us - that's why we come here ....

Can you find the image at...

forums/images/graemlins/default/

(Or wherever you uploaded to?)

i dont even know were forums/images/graemlins/default/ is/ im at THE BUCKET OF GUTS » Control Panel » Images & Icons

From that page - click on the Graemlins tab then scroll to the bottom to 'Add New Graemlin'.

Then you can upload from your PC

And also for adding graemlins.
You don't even need to use the control panel.
You can upload them via ftp in bulk to the proper directory and they will appear.

Good point

...but I was thinking that after posts #2 and #5 - the admin cp may be the preferred option.

(I prefer to ftp myself )

Probably is for this user till he gets some time under his belt.
And get that warm comfy feeling using the software.

Unable to remove icon. Please check permissions on the files in your /images/icons/default directory and try again.

im not haveing much luck. any hints on how to get rid of the wrongly loaded ones?

Is that the message you got from the update/delete icons button?

If so, then you may need to ftp into your hosting space and manually remove the graemlin.


EDIT:
Alternatively - you could try to ftp to the graemlin and give it 777 permissions; then maybe UBB could remove it cleanly.

yup thats were i got it from. can you explain to me how to ftp into your hosting space and manually remove the graemlin?

So I guess you didn't install the forum then?

You can do a lot of damage if you ftp when you aren't used to doing it.

Is it possible that you can get in touch with the person who installed the website/forum?

Failing that, try...

http://www.filetransferplanet.com/ftp-guides-resources/

well theres only one i been trying to get rid of so i guess i will just leave it. i got all the rest setup that i wanted. now if i could only come and set the colors i want im good to go pretty much.

You can always uncheck the 'ACTIVE' box on the Graemlins page.

Which colours are you referring to?

i wanted to change the colors of the boxes, everything but the background, but the ubb guy aint got time and i sure dont know how to do it.
but anyway now, i had all my gremlins all in and working fine. now this am they are all red x's, im reallt getting discuraged with this outfit.

thanks, guess i will go back and re do them again.

Kinda funny - after all these years - I thought I had to load them through the cp for proper indexing and whatever. Think of all the time I could have saved.

graemlins need to be added via Control Panel.

i don't think you can FTP them and they automatically appear, unless i'm looking @ libs/html.inc.php and admin/graemlins_display.php wrong

they need to be added to the DB via cPanel 1 at a time

the only way FTP would work, is if you are uploading to a new directory, but using the same filenames as are already in the DB, from adding them via the cpanel.

you have to do that when for example you add a new graemlin to default, but need to dup it in default_dark directory, which kinda sucks

moods, post images, news images etc, are different and are just whatever is in the directory, with no DB correlation. there is no ubbt_MOODS table, while there _is_ a ubbt_GRAEMLINS one for example

since i put in the new ones its working fine, thank you all.