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.

[movslow]

Originally Posted by Lynne

I actually didn't intend to have this mod put the smilies below Quick Reply. I only wanted to move them to underneath the text box on pages where they were already on the side. Then I realized it was easy to just put them in QR also.

So are you saying this isn't an option, or you are unwilling to do it?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by movslow

So are you saying this isn't an option, or you are unwilling to do it?

It is not an option in this mod to have it in a little dropdown box. All I did was add a couple lines of css to move the box to below, I didn't want to write a bunch of code to change things.

[pinoquio46]

Originally Posted by pinoquio46

It works in both, new PM and reply to PM

I try to include 'editpost' in the array, but the smilies go to right side of thr page...

Thanks for your reply :up:

Hi, is possible aplly this mod also in the post edition.

*excuse my bad English

Thanks

[meissenation]

Thanks Lynne! Worked perfectly.

[SemperFideles]

Thanks for this mod. Is it possible to enable this only for the Quick Reply box?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by SemperFideles

Thanks for this mod. Is it possible to enable this only for the Quick Reply box?

You would have to modify the plugin code to do so.




Just a heads up to everyone, when 4.0.1 comes out, this will get 'broken', but I will update it as soon as possible. If you want to fix it yourself, you need to modify the plugin "Add editor2.css to pages" and change both instances of "$vbulletin->templatecache['SHOWTHREAD']" to $vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude'] and the same for both instances of $vbulletin->templatecache['newreply'] . As I said, I'll update is after the official 4.0.1 gets released.

[COL NIL SATIS]

done!!! nice one Lynne..will resize them later but thats great..thanks for making this mod...appreciate it as always x

[dianna]

Awesome thanks!!

[Droptop]

Since upgrading to 4.0.1 my smilies are displaying on the side again, any idea? Thanks

[Switch3130]

Originally Posted by Droptop

Since upgrading to 4.0.1 my smilies are displaying on the side again, any idea? Thanks

Had the same problem.