Random Smilies in box on New Thread/Reply

Ok first, 100% of the credit for this goes to FireFly aka Chen

I had requested this and he answered. I have tested this on 2.2.0 through 2.2.5 and with vbPortal and it has worked great. This was my original question:

Here's one that I'm not even sure how easy/hard it is. One of my members wanted to have it so when you click to reply to a thread, the smilies box on the left will have random ones from your total collection so that they would be encouraged to use different smilies and not have to click the get more button. I would love this hack as increasing the number of smilies in that box breaks my table border so I had to only allow 18 smilies in that box vs. 30

I posted this here so I could have it on my install list and for anyone else wanting this.

The file you edit is admin/functions.php

Replace:

if ($smtotal > 0) {

		$smilies = $DB_site->query("SELECT title, smilietext, smiliepath FROM smilie");

With this:

if ($smtotal > 0) {

		$smilies = $DB_site->query("SELECT title, smilietext, smiliepath FROM smilie ORDER BY RAND()");

Once again, my thanks to FireFly and all the Hackers!

[fonzerelli_79]

Originally posted by JTMON
Hey buddy,

Your claim to fame comes from assaulting innocent soda machines to get free drinks leased:

oh, my secret shame - who told you!!

[Arathorn]

Would it be difficult to a 2nd smiley box? i.e. leave the current one for often used smilies, and have another one for random smilies.

[fonzerelli_79]

good idea

[DarkReaper]

It'd be nice to be able to weigh the smilies as well. Some smilies would have a greater chance of coming up than others. This would allow some to always be there, and others to never be there...very useful if you have irregularly sized smilies

[NYI Fan]

Thanks
quick and easy, as always, and soemthing my users asked for more than a few times!

The idea about giving the smilies weight is great! Kind of give them higher rank for X number of uses....

[fonzerelli_79]

Originally posted by DarkReaper
It'd be nice to be able to weigh the smilies as well. Some smilies would have a greater chance of coming up than others. This would allow some to always be there, and others to never be there...very useful if you have irregularly sized smilies

id agree with this

[Snake~eyes]

this hack looks very cool

I was wondering if there'd be a way to maybe insert an if statement so it would just use 15x15pixel smiles for this. Because if i use some of my bigger ones it'd mess up the tables.

help appreciated.

thx

[tanster]

I love this, and it was sooo easy!

Thank you!
Jennie

[Massiel]

I have one question Firefly, does it work with 2.2.2? Please let me know! I have lots of smilies showing out of like 100 LOL, so this would be a great hack to add on my site.

[Massiel]

Anyone know??