New Posting Features - Move smilies to below text area (and optionally add to Quick Reply)

NOTE: This will break your 4.1.4 Quick Reply if you have smilies enabled there unless you do the edit below.

This moves the smilie box to below the text area when posting within threads, blogs, groups, PMs, and cms when using the Advanced Editor (new item or advanced reply). This is done using just CSS. The plugin simply appends the new CSS file to the editor.css file link in the page. It can also make the smiliebox show on the showthread page below the text box in Quick Reply if you do the Optional Edit below.

lynne_smilies_below.png

This mod is supported for the default style only as trying to debug other's site CSS issues is not easy.

This has been tested in firefox, Safari and IE7.


Version History:
1.0 2009-12-06: initial release by Lynne at vbulletin.org (pre 4.0.1)
1.1 2010-01-13: fixed issues with 4.0.1; made it move the smilies to the bottom for sending a new PM ('blog'), and for posting a New Discussion ('group') (4.0.1)
1.2 2010-01-23: fixed it to work if you store your css in the filesystem (4.0.1)
1.3 2010-05-05: added fields so it will work with vbcms and editpost (4.0.1)
1.4 2010-10-23: Modified CSS to use new stylevars - you do NOT need to upgrade to this version if your CSS is working just fine for you! (4.0.8 - see note below for 4.1PL1)


To install:

1. Import product-lynne_smilies_below.xml

2. Go to Settings > Options > Message Posting Interface Options > Put smilie box below textarea > Yes

3. Go to Settings > Options > Message Posting Interface Options and make sure you set these two settings:
Smiliebox Total Smilies - this is the total number of smilies you want to show
Smiliebox Rows (smilies below textarea) - this is the number of rows of smilies you would like

NOTE: The Total Smilies must be evenly divisible by the Rows, ie. you can't set the Total to 17 and have 2 Rows as that won't work.

4. OPTIONAL - If you also want the smiliebox to show on the showthread page under the Quick Reply, then you must do the following:
a. Go to Settings > Options > Message Posting Interface Options > Add smiliebox below Quick Reply on showthread page > Yes (Note that the above options, Put smilie box below textarea must also be set to Yes)
b. Make the following template edit in the template "showthread_quickreply".
Find the following:

        <div class="editor_textbox quickreply">
            <vb:if condition="$show['qr_require_click']">
                <textarea name="message" id="{vb:raw editorid}_textarea" rows="10" cols="80" dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" disabled="disabled">{vb:raw click_quick_reply_icon}</textarea>
            <vb:else />
                <textarea name="message" id="{vb:raw editorid}_textarea" rows="10" cols="80" dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}"></textarea>
            </vb:if>
        </div>    
        
    </div>
</div>

Add in the following line among the bottom divs (for 4.0.8):

        </div>    
        <vb:if condition="($vbulletin->options['lynne_sb_below'] AND $vbulletin->options['lynne_sb_below_2']) AND THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread'"><div class="editor_smiliebox">{vb:raw smiliebox}</div></vb:if>
    </div>
</div>

OR Add in the following line among the bottom divs (for 4.1.0 PL1):

        </div>    
        <vb:if  condition="($vboptions['lynne_sb_below'] AND  $vboptions['lynne_sb_below_2']) AND THIS_SCRIPT ==  'showthread'"><div class="editor_smiliebox">{vb:raw  smiliebox}</div></vb:if>
    </div>
</div>

OR in 4.1.10 forward, find this code in the SHOWTHREAD template:

		<div class="blockrow">
			{vb:raw messagearea}
		</div>

Add directly below there:

        <vb:if  condition="($vboptions['lynne_sb_below'] AND  $vboptions['lynne_sb_below_2']) AND THIS_SCRIPT ==  'showthread'"><div class="editor_smiliebox">{vb:raw  smiliebox}</div></vb:if>

To get this to work with 4.1.4 (and later) Quick Reply:
Edit the plugin "Add smilies to Quick Reply also" and remove, or comment out, the line:

PHP Code:

    $editor_template_name = 'showthread_quickreply'; 


To uninstall:

1. Uninstall "Move smilies below textarea"
2. If you added the smiliebox to the showthread.php page in the Quick Reply, then remove the template edit done above.

This will not work for pre-beta 5 vB4.

[Lynne]

Then you are not going through the installation instructions carefully.

[Arrogant-One]

Hi everyone.

Okay, I installed this wonderful little mod. Now my question is this. When I click the 'More' button, this cool pop up of smiles appears.

However, when I press the button circled in red, a different pop up window appears. How can I make it so that when I press the button in circled red, the same pop up window appears as it does for More?

[nuggsy]

After installing this the quick reply doesn't work anymore. It refereshes the page now rather than just opening the quick reply box.

Any suggestions?

[osix]

will it work on 4.2 pl2 and pl3 ?

[ComoEstaEso-com]

Originally Posted by osix

will it work on 4.2 pl2 and pl3 ?

Yes.
I'm running 4.2.0 Patch Level 2 and it works fine.

[tuRiver]

Sorry to bother again Lynne, i've installed this, an i'm not noticing any changes here

http://www.turiver.com/foros/newrepl...treply&t=74825

user: tester, pass: 123456

THanks in advance

[Lynne]

Did you read all the instructions including about adding commenting out the line in one of the plugins? and modifying the SHOWTHREAD template?

[tuRiver]

Yes, i understand that are necesarry only if you want to display it on quickreply

[Lynne]

They are below the reply when you go to the Advanced Reply page. The way you have your site set up, if you click on Reply, it goes to the bottom of the page and that is Quick Reply. If you click on the big red Reply button twice, it goes to the reply page and the smilies are on the bottom there (although they aren't centered which I suspect is because it is a custom style).

[fworth]

Great Mod and working fine with 4.2. What I like to know is there anyway I can add them under the text and image area? Lore