.josh

To me the star effect adds to the mysticism associated with trying to be psychic. But as far as the "people don't smack their head to go into a psychic pose" : see that's the thing. To me, it doesn't look like he's smacking his head. It looks like he's bring his hand up to his forehead to concentrate, stars coming out of his head, etc.. I see the double-hand thing used for trying to be psychic, as well, but I've seen plenty of one-handed psychic poses, as well. Anyways, I like it as is. Star and everything. But I just interpret it as trying to be psychic, rather than a "facepalm" thing, so I would use it as such.

still think it looks like he's trying to be psychic. which is fine. Great for posts like that. Think the head banging on wall or something similar for "stupid" posts or expression of frustration.

Well that's the point. He is smacking himself.

smiley banging head against the wall?

haha okay I guess that's not quite what I meant. Or rather, I figured as much already. I'm thinking alternatives to a face palm animation that would convey the same message. Like maybe a smiley banging his head against the wall or something.

haha I like the blink one better too but hmm...to me it kind of looks like he's trying to be psychic. I guess that kind of works as a smiley in general (for people who think we're psychic when they post their questions) but not really as a facepalm. What about keeping it for a "I'm not psychic" smiley and rethinking the imagery behind facepalm? For instance, what kinds of posts would you use a facepalm smiley for?

As mattal999 mentioned, you'll want to order it in your query. You are saying you want "newer" ones first. Which column in your table signifies older vs. newer? Is there a date column? Id column? You will want to ... ORDER BY column DESC

I want my blinking cursor pipe thing to turn into pacman when pressing the backspace. As a general thing, for Vista (so whether I have html editor open, webpage, text file, word doc, etc...). I know I can go to control panel > mouse > pointers and change my theme and I know it's possible to make custom pics/animations, but the actual blinking pipe thing is not in the list of pointer icons that you can change. Anybody have any idea where to look/how to modify this?

what about making it where he's smacking himself in the forehead, and then shacking head?

facepalm smiley seems like one that would be better conveyed animated.

'~<a[^>]*friendID='.$friendID.'[^>]*>(.*?)</a>~is'

hmm...to me it looks more like a yellow hand holding a yellow ball.

wanna compare projection sizes?

I was projecting.

For some reason I read that, and the following conversation took place in my head: "Damn bitch, it's not my fault you got pregnant! I used a condom. Not my fault it was made for someone with a dick 3x bigger than mine!" and then she says "No, you're dick is 3x smaller than the average."

I guess that means it isn't doing a very good job at protecting?

I might try to work on it over the weekend. Considering I did the m tag hack and I already wrote code for my sig, I'd probably get this sorted out the fastest.

I was thinking more along the lines of for instance like how my sig is, only linkified. The graphic you showed looks pretty cool. So if I were to do for instance [srtfm]array_merge[/srtfm] the code would take what's between the tags, figure out the width needed for the sign, generate it with the smilies holding it up on either side, and wrap anchor tags around it.

what about tags like the m tags that dynamically generate a smiley holding up a sign that says that function and links to the manual entry (and says RTFM)

That gives me an idea...I wonder how much I can get away with for writing a condition that checks browser version and redirecting user to ms ie8 dl page if it's <= ie6?

I tend not to use code tags on one-liners. For some reason I feel it's overkill or something, idk.

Ah I know what the problem is. I think your $news_page_row->getField('text') method is using htmlentities. Rightclick > viewsource your echoed string to confirm. If so, do this: $string = $news_page_row->getField('text'); $string = html_entity_decode($string); preg_match('~<img[^>]*src\s?=\s?[\'"]([^\'"]*)~i',$string,$imgsrc); echo $imgsrc[1];

preg_match('~<img src="http://www\.thedesignmonkeys\.co\.uk/img/image\.png">~',$string,$match);

I get emails on a fairly regular basis from people posting comments on my published content. Well I'm usually not logged in when I click the link from my email. Well the link takes me straight to the comment. But I can't post a response w/out logging in (or registering, obviously. And I assume this is same for registering, since it's not done with logging in). Well after I login, I would like the site to take me back to where I was at when I had to click the login button, instead of the main page.

The patterns are correct. Which one of those regexes are you using? The first one you should be using $imgsrc[1] the 2nd $imgsrc[0]. If you are using the correct $imgsrc element, then something else wrong. Echo $string to make sure it contains what you expect it to contain. Also, it would give you that message if there just wasn't any images to capture.