update:
yeah man that did it
added the last code line:
$date_added = date($this->mdb->config['options']['date_format'], strtotime($this->data['DATEADD']));
$tpl->add_var("\$MOVIE[DATEADD]", $date_added);
$tpl->add_var("\$MOVIE[HREF]", $this->mdb->get_link(array("NUM" => $this->data['NUM'])));
$tpl->add_callback("\$MOVIE[DESCRIPTION]", "_callback_description", 1);
$tpl->add_subtpl("TRANSLATEDTITLES", $this->_templates_translatedtitles());
$tpl->add_subtpl("ACTORS", $this->_templates_names("ACTORS", "ACTOR", $this->actors));
$tpl->add_subtpl("DIRECTORS", $this->_templates_names("DIRECTORS", "DIRECTOR", $this->directors));
$tpl->add_subtpl("PRODUCERS", $this->_templates_names("PRODUCERS", "PRODUCER", $this->producers));
$tpl->add_var("\$MOVIE[RATING]", (round($this->data['RATING'])));
return $tpl;
}
and now it works perfectly

made my own star images as you can see, and now they show perfectly without me having to change the table settings in phpMyAdmin
thanks alot!
lemme know if ya need some grahpical work done, thats more my line of work









