Go to the formatting.php file in your wp-includes folder. If you open it in Textpad you can find line 648 pretty easily (but then again I don’t know what you are running) check to make sure that you are telling preg where your regular expression is starting and ending by using the ‘/’ or ‘#’ delimiter in the code.
/:lol:/ or #:lol:# is an example
It will be in where it is calling the preg-replace function on that line in the file that you will most likely find that it is not using delimiters.
Hope this helps.
thanks wilsonke
I am running WordPress 2.1
recently upgraded from version 2.0.4
and this error started after the upgrade was completed, so I did not modify the stock files in any way.
Line 648 says:
$content = preg_replace($wp_smiliessearch, $wp_smiliesreplace, $content);
specifically, lines 646-649 say
if ((strlen($content) > 0) && (‘<‘ != $content{0})) { // If it’s not a tag
$content = preg_replace($wp_smiliessearch, $wp_smiliesreplace, $content);
}
if that helps any, so, what do I do, put
/:.$wp_smiliessearch:/, $wp.smiliesreplace:/, $content);
like that? I am confused.
as I said, this is the stock wordpress 2.1 I did not modify it in any way, so is this a bug I found perhaps?
also, I tried to get help from pierre, hoping that the problem was with his plugin, so I simply reported this error to him, and he banned me from his blog for doing so 🙁
so if someone knows how to fix this error, could someone please pass on the information to me?
after the way pierre treated me on his site, I could care less about his plugin anymore, but unfortunately, he is the only one who maintains this plugin, so I’ll have to figure out how to fix it by myself I guess.
if anyone knows how to fix this, I would really appreciate the help 🙂
thanks much
Tom
ah ha!
figured out the problem!
Pierre’s AJAX Shoutbox plugin,
http://pierre.sudarovich.free.fr/
is conflicting with
More-Smilies 3.3 plugin
http://mattread.com/projects/wp-plugins/more-smilies/
darn plugins already LOL
now I just have to figure out if there is another plugin LIKE more-smilies that won’t conflict with the shoutbox, hrm.
Actually the More Smilies plugin is conflicting with anything to do with AJAX!
I had this Ajax Calandar enhancer, and I got this same error. I disabled the Smileys thing, and its OK now…
I ended up using WP-Grins instead, which seems to work well
I switched over to WP-Grins and I’m still getting the error…it goes away if I turn off “convert emoticons” any suggestions now?
Sorry, I don’t understand what in the code I need to change:
$content = preg_replace($wp_smiliessearch, $wp_smiliesreplace, $content);
Please help.. =)
