Photobucket + Firefox + Tamiyaclub IP.Board = ?&%!

[GregM]

This TC forum's IP.Board software, Mozilla Firefox and Photobucket.com are struggling at the moment to work together.

Often when I try to embed photobucket images (using the "IMG" or "IMG thumb" codes from Photobucket designed for forums), pictures won't show up properly. When editing, "[" and "]" brackets are often substituted with garbage characters.

Sometimes even the complete text of my post gets lost when I try to save the corrected post. I had to revive this post from Google's cache when I just wanted to edit in the first picture. The rest of the thumbnail pictures are now reduced to simple links, since I can't get them to work right otherwise. Neither in the simple post editor nor in the full editor, regardless on what the editor toggle/switch is set too.

These are examples of Photobucket's forum codes:

(EDIT: Please see EDIT further below!)

Fullsize image with link

[URL=http://s1051.photobucket.com/user/r-type1/media/RC/sam2176opwrc.jpg.html]%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i1051.photobucket.com/albums/s429/r-type1/RC/sam2176opwrc.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Thumbnail image with link

[URL=http://s1051.photobucket.com/user/r-type1/media/RC/sam2176opwrc.jpg.html]%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i1051.photobucket.com/albums/s429/r-type1/RC/th_sam2176opwrc.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

EDIT: As you can see, even when just trying to post the codes inside of a CODE tag, IP.Board creates random garbage characters around the IMG tags where there should be brackets. Once you save the post, they suddenly appear.

This drives me nuts.

[mongoose1983]

The problem must be something else mate, because just a couple of hours ago I posted pictures here using both, Firefox & photobucket without any hassle.

[GregM]

In the past (read: since the forum was updated from the old to the recent software a few years ago), this happened also with the Opera browser and on different computers.

I guess there could be some weird margin of character misinterpretation for characters in the forum's editor, which only happens under some circumstances.

[TWINSET]

Using Photobucket's IMG link and Firefox 29.0.1

[URL=http://s1347.photobucket.com/user/TWINSET68/media/IMG_8059_zps2e4a9f79.jpg.html]%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p718/TWINSET68/IMG_8059_zps2e4a9f79.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Using Photobucket's 'Direct' link and TC's image tagging;

http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p718/TWINSET68/IMG_8059_zps2e4a9f79.jpg

[img=http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p718/TWINSET68/IMG_8059_zps2e4a9f79.jpg]

[GregM]

Thank you Twinset.

Well, in the first CODE tag I still see the

%5BIMG%5D

instead of

[img]

I also found out there are differences in how the forum handles pictures presented in

[img=image.jpg]

Versus

[img=image.jpg]

Have you tried embedding a thumbnail?


EDIT: A thousand edits later....

[GregM]

(Didn't wanted to edit my post another time at the risk of auto-formatting and getting everything lost again.)

It seems the plain text editor (where I should have total control over all tags) messes around a lot and interprets many tags and image in the wrong way. The full graphic WYSIWYG editor works suprisingly better, but isn't perfect either.

Still a PITA.

[TWINSET]

When I switched HTML off composing that first post, the address went so screwy the picture wouldn't show, but I use a combination of PB and pics hosted elsewhere and that's the first time one's not shown up.

Both pics here are PB

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=73176#entry541583

That Bronco looks well sweet Jim
 
My latest drain
[url=http://s1347.photobucket.com/user/TWINSET68/media/hedge_zps7e4213d4.jpg.html][img=http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p718/TWINSET68/hedge_zps7e4213d4.jpg][/url]
 
Parts donor
[url=http://s1347.photobucket.com/user/TWINSET68/media/judy5_zps302532ee.jpg.html][img=http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p718/TWINSET68/judy5_zps302532ee.jpg][/url]

I've edited/HTML on/off that post a couple of times typing this and can't corrupt the code, so not sure when/why those extra characters get introduced.

[GregM]

It seems my problem is related to known issues of the IP-Board text editor parser, which is set up to convert on-the-fly between different formats of using IMG-tags in BB-code:

http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/bugs.html/_/ip-board/invalid-image-extension-img-r39365

http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/bugs.html/_/ip-board/bbcode-img-tags-no-longer-function-in-341-r40910

http://slotblog.net/topic/39746-photobucket-problems/

[dutch_rc]

Just wanted to add that %5 and %5D are actually not that random.

They are part of a percent encoded url for the same characters...

[GregM]

Thanks, I had something like that going in my mind, but wasn't 100% sure about it. This might be another indication of a parser that's misinterpreting or misprinting characters.

Twinset, for now I'll try the WYSIWYG editor as a workaround for the broken plain text editor. If anything fails, I'll let you know. Thanks for your kind assistance.

[dutch_rc]

I usually type my own code (web development predisposition), that circumvents it all.

One extra cool thing is an image that is a link itself :

[url=link-url][img=image-url][/url]

The basics for a link or image :

[url]some-direct-path[/url] and [img=some-direct-path]

Link with a certain text showing :

[url=the-path-itself]Text to be shown[/url]

Edit - lol, when I try to edit this post it takes out all the spacing (empty lines).