Mini Mods - Smilie Category

Smilie Category

This is a port of this hack, posted with the original author permission

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

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 2 minutes and is very easy. But please remember that you need to have at least 2 categories created with your smiliemanager in your ACP.

Details
1 Plugin XML
1 Template Edit

Installation
1.Import The Plugin .
2- In Template smiliepopup

FIND

<form action="misc.php" method="get">

ABOVE that ADD

$new_smilies

Do you like it?
So click install

[Nathan2006]

This is great!

Thank you beebi

This will make things a lot faster now loads of smiles - Lot less time to load

Install

[ForeverForums]

id love to have something like this for post icons.

[sinaluna]

Originally Posted by rwoelich

Also, it appears that by default all the smilies show when you first load the smilie popup. The reason I was looking for this mod was so the smilies could be displayed by category and the popup wouldn't take forever to load because we have nearly 1000 smilies installed. If you want to set one single category to show when the smilie popup is first loaded (then the user can use the dropdown to pick another category), you can edit the plugin that was installed...

Find this bit of code in the plugin from your Plugin Manager:

PHP Code:

if (!$_REQUEST['select_category'])
        {
                $select_category = $new_categories[0];
        } 


...and replace it with:

PHP Code:

if (!$_REQUEST['select_category'])
        {
                $select_category = 'categoryname';
        } 


...where categoryname is the name of the category you want to load by default.

Beautiful! This was my only problem with the hack. Thanks so much!

[blacklancer]

i am getting the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in ......\Forum\misc.php(488) : eval()'d code on line 1

any ideas??

[akanevsky]

I believe vBulletin 3.5.x has Smilie Categories by default?

[Stoebi]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

I believe vBulletin 3.5.x has Smilie Categories by default?

Yes, but i like to select a certain smilie category via popup and select the smilie i need.
Hate to scroll down (2000 Smilies). ;-)

Can i select which smilie category should be visible for certain forums? I miss it so much.


Regards, Stoebi

[Karri]

This hack seems to have a small bug. It only shows even numbers of smilies per category. It looks like the bit

PHP Code:

else
       {
           //do nothing
       }
    }
    if (sizeof($bits) == 1)
    {
        eval('$smiliecells = "' . fetch_template('smiliepopup_straggler') . '";');
        eval('$smiliebits .= "' . fetch_template('smiliepopup_row') . '";');
    } 


from the original hack that this was ported from was left out. I replaced the last } in the plugin with that bit of code and now I have odd number of smiles showing again.

[Stop]

Installed and works fine.
Thanks beebi.

[emtee]

Thanks a lot beebi for this hack!

There are 2 minor bug in this hack though:

1) If the category name has apostrophy ('), the category won't be shown.
2) If the category has odd number of smilies, the last smilie won't be shown.

Karri,

Can you upload your plugin with the changes so odd number of smilies will be shown also? I tried to make the changes you mention but it won't work. I don't know why???

[Karri]

Try this, it has the odd numbers showing on my board.