Posting error when trying to use “[img]”

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If I try to make the following animation actually show up, by enabling BBCode, an error (“Error in posting.”) prevents me from posting the message.



Does anyone know what the problem is?

Occasionally that error is produced for no obvious reason and usually, retrying the submission resolves it.
All I did was uncheck the posting option "Disable BBCode in this post" and resubmitted your post - I then got the "Couldn't obtain smilies data" error.
Likewise, retrying the submission often resolves this, as was the case here.

Thanks. I had tried a few times, but always got the error.

Yeah - "it's a bit flaky at times" barely covers it...

I've found that it nearly always goes through okay if I specify the image size.

Interesting.

By the way, I’ve never been able to post two or more images side by side—only arranged vertically, corresponding to different lines of text. Is this to be expected?

[img][398:291]http://eric.gruver.net/images/house.jpg[/img]

Try posting this as an image without the size modification. The image is 398x291.

http://eric.gruver.net/images/house.jpg

It works, but needs careful consideration because the resulting display is often too wide and disrupts the thread layout - which then often requires moderator attention to correct.
It's just a case of positioning two BBCode "img" blocks on the same line, ensuring there is a space between the closing tag of one and opening tag of the next - although doing that also seems to be a good way of generating the "Couldn't obtain smilies data" error...

I'd successfully previewed this post without error a number of times, including a test image displayed twice horizontally, but after making a small edit to the text before finally posting I consistently got the smilies data error - and now cannot preview at all without getting that error while images are displayed horizontally, despite restarting with a new post using less or no text. I get the impression it becomes a thread-related error, as opposed to post-related.
Since many (most?) image posting failures are resolved by retrying, or making irrelevant tweaks like disabling smilies when none are included in the post, there appear to be many subtle forum code bugs involved here and on balance, it's usually safer to only post images vertically...


@eric76: Hmm, interesting. There should be no reason to specify an image size when that is less than 800x600; it only becomes necessary because the forum code doesn't correctly scale images larger than this and I normally use it to cap images to that size.
I did get some intermittent "smilies" errors while repeatedly previewing this post with one occurrence of your image, untagged, (even when making no changes to the post) - however, adding a size tag seems to work well and stopped the error from occurring so it's definitely a technique worth remembering.
Unfortunately, it also ruins a horizontal display because the "Picture resized" comment added by the forum software now forces a stepwise display down the post.
Two steps forward, one back.

I'll take a look at the logs on that server later today and see if they give a clue as to what's happening.

I took a look at the logs and didn't see anything unusual.

Let’s give it a shot …

[img][200:142]http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/2825/wibblywobblyw.gif[/img] [img][86:134]http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/6950/wibblywobblyi.gif[/img]