But if you have enough users making smilies, they could add up really quickly and bloat the db.

And only 91 posts? ;)

Depends on how many smilies a user can make. It can always be limited. For a medium sized board I think it's entirely sustainable, so long as we don't have to store the entire smilie URL that the current Smilie Maker outputs. The code could probably be easily edited to output much more abbrieviated URLs than it currently does.

And yes, at 91 posts in 4 years I am a world class lurker ;)

@ yinyang - I had a siamese seal point that never used a cat box always a toilet.

@ Coders -
- this is great for a "webtool" to make smiles. People can save to their desktop and use for whatever.

Hack idea / add-on - I am just brain storming (no thought to yes / no / maybe so)

Make an AdminCP ver
* once the smile is made you have a choice to save the smile in a $path (set somewere)
* Before you save take your finished Smile and add it to the database.

Title
Text to Replace
Smilie File Path
Smilie Category
Display Order

EX: layout forum to add to say the bottem of the page of the finished smile.
/admincp/image.php?do=add&table=smilie

weird one this...
ive installed it, click the link i made in the navbar....the page appears....

the template works fine...except...theres no images!?!?!?!?

not evena placeholder showing where the image should be...
GD is installed and working fine....(GD2+)........everything works, except for the images displaying??

HELP???

Yep, great !!

Work perfectly with Firefox and IE for me !

Click Install

File Attach, French language to template, for the non-vba version of the Smilie maker ;)

As I said in my first post one can create up to 6000 different smilies. Imagine if all these were stored in your server including a bbcode shortcut for each smilie! Also, why would a user have a different smilie panel than others since they will see the smilie anyway? ;)

It's in the readme file, did you read the instructions? ;)
In the non-vba version it will look like www.yoursite.com/forum/smmaker.php.
In the vba version it depends on the page identifier you have set and on an on another setting (which I don't currently remember how it's called). If you have vbadvanced you should be able to create a custom page and know the link for it! :rolleyes:

I have thought of that and yes it would be great BUT: The link to the image would be dynamic. e-steki_smilie_creator.php would have to be called to create the image each time a user sees that smilie in the post causing a huge server load, especially in big forums... I don't know exactly how bad that would be for the server (anyone that does?) but yes, I would like that feature a lot too. Oh, also note that if you choose not to care about the poor server (:p) and use such smilies in a post then be sure to have dynamic images enabled in vbulletin options :)
If anyone uses these let me know if the forum went any slower. I I figure out it's not THAT heavy for the server, it's certain I'll put such a feature in. :)

Yes you are, sure it's good for admins but I have noticed that users have a lot of fun with this as well :)

I have tested it more with firefox and also seen it in the forums of some members that posted here with firefox and it works correctly...