Thanks, sibyl. Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. *blush* I wondered if that might be the case!! *ooer*
By 'alternative coding', I meant the changes required for file path, file names being exactly the same as existing emotes, etc. All works well except that it seems to be limiting me to 30.
Before I started updating anything, I added all available smilies in the default smiley set - there are quite a lot which aren't already added by default, e.g. babyroll.gif, BackFlip.gif, Cheers.gif, coffeedrinking.gif, etc., and wrote down ALL of their names. At a guess, there's probably about 140 or so of them.
I've uploaded the emotes which I want to use to my Photobucket account and there's no problem with SMF finding them. However, at this stage, I've got 32 in Photobucket, but the SMF admin section only seems to recognise 30 of them. I've had some working fine, then, when I add another one, the previously well working one 'drops out' and returns to just text instead of an icon.
I'm well aware of the same naming issues, including usage of upper and/or lower case (I am a proofreader by occupation), so the only thing I could think of was a numerical limit to the amount of emotes available to show up on the board/in the 'more' section, hence my question about limits.
Hope this makes more sense?
Oh man.
I'm going to have to leave a note to SMF for Free's Admniistrator about this. You should not be seeing all of those smileys there at all. It appears some of the names are showing up from some that have been uploaded by those who have the Custom Smiley Upgrade. He's going to have the fix that again. You should only see the normal ones - smiley - wink - cheesy - grin - angry - sad - to name a few.
What is your forum's url so I can let him know which server this is happening on?
If you do not wish to post the url I just need to know if its an smfforfree.com, smfforfree2.com, smfforfree3.com, smfforfree4.com, mysmf.com, or freesmfhosting.com address