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.

[ForYou]

Hello Lynne , please tell me step by step how can i do that please ,

i don't know how can i solve it , please try to help

[ForYou]

is there awy to 3 colums not just one row ,

[CoronasRGood]

Everything works great, only problem for me is the quick navigation section gets pushed down into a shaded area after I put the code in. anyway to stop this from happening?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by kho91

thank's Lynne, but i have a problem, the smilies are small !

thank's

You will have to ask over on vb.com how to make your smilies larger. This mod does nothing to the size of them, it just moves them below the box.

Originally Posted by ForYou

is there awy to 3 colums not just one row ,

I posted the code for having two rows and stated what to do. Just adjust it for 3 rows - multiply one by 3 and divide the other by 3 - I even highlighted the code in red for what to change in another post where someone was asking about this.

Originally Posted by CoronasRGood

Everything works great, only problem for me is the quick navigation section gets pushed down into a shaded area after I put the code in. anyway to stop this from happening?

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you have a link where I can see this? Was your page fine before you turned on this mod?

[CoronasRGood]

Before Code: Attachment 108741

After Code: Attachment 108742

[ForYou]

Originally Posted by Lynne

You would have to increase the height (by 2, if for 2 rows) and decrease the width (by 2, if for 2 rows) for the ".editor_smiliebox ul.smiliebox" I've never tried that, but it should work.

.editor_smiliebox ul.smiliebox {
height:{vb:math 2*{vb:math 21+2*2}}px;
margin:0 auto;
width:{vb:math 20+.5*{vb:raw vboptions.smtotal}*{vb:math 20+2*2}}px;
}

Where i need to change this to be work , i was try but it dosen't work ,

please let me know where exactly put above code ,

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by ForYou

Where i need to change this to be work , i was try but it dosen't work ,

please let me know where exactly put above code ,

See this post. I highlighted what you need to change. In your case, you want to change 2 to 3 and .5 to .33.

Originally Posted by Lynne

original code in the mod:

.editor_smiliebox ul.smiliebox {
height:{vb:math 21+2*2}px;
margin:0 auto;
width:{vb:math 20+{vb:raw vboptions.smtotal}*{vb:math 20+2*2}}px;
}

code I posted in post 6 to create 2 rows of smilies:

.editor_smiliebox ul.smiliebox {
height:{vb:math 2*{vb:math 21+2*2}}px;
margin:0 auto;
width:{vb:math 20+.5*{vb:raw vboptions.smtotal}*{vb:math 20+2*2}}px;
}

Code in red is what I changed.

Originally Posted by CoronasRGood

Before Code: Attachment 108741

After Code: Attachment 108742

What page is that on? It looks like the ajax edit in the post, but this mod shouldn't be doing anything to that.

[CoronasRGood]

This only occurs when you are on the page when you are actually viewing a post.

[Lynne]

Huh? On a showthread page? Can I have a link?

[CoronasRGood]

Sorry, yes on the showthread page. http://rinconforums.com/showthread.php?8-Welcome