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!

Well after wiping the sweat from my brow, praying to the gods it wouldn't explode ... l installed it No problems, except now l have members +++++ing about the screen resizing, guess we have the same problem with varied sized smilies others are reporting. Nice and easy though.

[mwhoob]

can see screen shot

[Gary King]

Yesterday at 09:12 AM mwhoob said this in Post #42
can see screen shot

A screenshot is not needed, because it doesn't look any different, besides the fact that instead of the smilies always being in the same positions, they rotate randomly, so there will always be a different smilie in the same spot.

[Leah]

10-08-02 at 10:08 PM snyx said this in Post #35
I have like 500+ smilies (yeah I know, I know) and some are just STOOPID sizes and whatnot.. would there be anyway to have it just randomize certain smilies and exclude others?

I have the same situation here and would love it if someone made that possible.

[Salazar]

Nice hack.

[high]* Salazar clicks install[/high]

[Session]

/me clicks install!