Smiley images broken

[techflare]

Hi,

I'm trying out a trial version of Arrowchat and it all seems fine except one thing - when you send a smiley, the sender can see the smiley fine, however the recipient sees a broken image. Inspecting the image shows that the path is wrong - it's missing a slash. An example:

/arrowchat/themesnew_facebook_full/images/smilies/smiley.gif

There should be a slash between themes and new_facebook_full.

[Jason]

Thanks! I'll check this out and see if it is indeed a bug.

[Jason]

I verified that it does work and the coding seems to be correct.

When a message is sent, "DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR" is used between themes and the theme name (in this case new_facebook_full).

I've never heard of DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR not working on a server before and that would cause issues in other parts of the code too. Perhaps it is a problem with IonCube Loader but we can certainly fix this for you either way if you decided to purchase.

[techflare]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the reply! We went ahead and purchased the product after being impressed by its feature set and your customer service. I went ahead and installed the premium version. Unfortunately, I'm still seeing this behaviour.

If it makes troubleshooting any easier, I went into the database and had a look at the data in the "arrowchat" table's "message" field and it had this -

<img class="arrowchat_smiley" height="16" width="16" src="/secure/arrowchat/themesnew_facebook_full/images/smilies/smiley.gif" alt="smiley">

You can see the slash is missing from there too.

I'm testing this by using Chrome on one monitor and FF on the other. It doesn't matter if I type in Chrome or in FF, the result is the same.

[Jason]

Try opening up the arrowchat/includes/functions/functions_send.php file and change this (line 61):

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$text = str_replace($pattern, '<img class="arrowchat_smiley" height="16" width="16" src="' . $base_url . AC_FOLDER_THEMES . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $theme . '/images/smilies/' . $result . '.gif" alt="' . $result . '">', $text);

To:

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$text = str_replace($pattern, '<img class="arrowchat_smiley" height="16" width="16" src="' . $base_url . AC_FOLDER_THEMES . '/' . $theme . '/images/smilies/' . $result . '.gif" alt="' . $result . '">', $text);

I can't imagine this will work but it's worth a try. This will only effect new messages.

Are you on a Windows server by any chance?

[techflare]

Hi Jason,

Thank you - that's fixed it. And yes, we're on windows.

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