Smilie Category Hack

Welcome to my first Release of

Smilie Category Hack or How-to-organize VB smilies in a nutshell

This small Hack helps you to organize your smilies in a better and easier way:

How does this work ?

You have to have to create multiple Smilie Categories with your ACP Smilie Manager. This hack will offer you a form select screen in your smilie popup window. So you can now easily choose from different categories.
The integration should take about 5 minutes and is very easy. But please remember that you need to have at least 2 categories created with your smiliemanager in your ACP.

Required actions:

- 1 template change
- 1 php file change

Please click on this install button or on the install button on the upper right corner if you wish to get support for this hack.

Update 1.01
Bug in the WYSIWYG editor fixed.

Enjoy it.

Cheers,

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by EnriqueHavoc

nice! i think i will be installing this soon.

Do you know if theres a way to set permissions for what user groups get to use specific categories?

Hi Enrique,

this could be implemented but smilies are publicly available in VB. So even if i would implement the onclick implementation per usergroup, people could just guess or ask how to create a smilie like :confidential: and then everyone could post this smilie without using the VB click smilie method. So it would not make sense to implement something like this. Sorry.

Cheers,

[zetetic]

Great hack, Pseudomizer! Thanks.

One thing: Where would I add padding so everything isn't pressed up against the sides of the box?

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by tmhall

Great hack, Pseudomizer! Thanks.

One thing: Where would I add padding so everything isn't pressed up against the sides of the box?

Hi tmhall,

the complete table is defined through the smilie templates. Look in your ACP for the Smilie PopUp Templates. The bits are the smilies themselves and the category is the TR or head of the table. But if you know HTML then you will recognize it yourself.

Cheers,

[zetetic]

Excellent. Thanks.

[Intex]

Looks good Pseudomizer . I noticed you have a similar smiley hack. What's the difference between the two?

[MindTrix]

The first two sections in the drop down list dont show any smilies even though them catagorys have some, any ideas?

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by Intex

Looks good Pseudomizer . I noticed you have a similar smiley hack. What's the difference between the two?

Hi Intex,

the differences between these two hacks are:

- navigation menu like navbar for smilie hack
- no click-add function for smilie hack
- [IMG Tag for cut and paste into thread in smilie hack
- you don't have to define replacement words for the smilies in the smilie hack
- smilie hack is a total diffent page and totally independant of the VB smilies
- no database entries

- the smilie category hack uses the VB smilies
- drop down field for categories
- easy click and add function into thread

Cheers,

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by MindTrix

The first two sections in the drop down list dont show any smilies even though them catagorys have some, any ideas?

Hi MindTrix,

thanks for pointing this out. As it looks like as soon as a category name has a special character in the name like &,$, etc no smilies are showing up.

I will investigate why this is happening and i will fix this in the version. Until then please do not use any special characters in the name ( german umlaut work in the names *weird* ).

Sorry for this inconvenience.

Cheers,

[Detomah]

[high]* Detomah installs this superb and well needed hack.
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Thanks.

[MindTrix]

When in the first catagory you can click a smilie and it gets put in the post, however clicking smilies in other catagorys does not send them to the post, any fix?