e-steki Smilie Maker 1.7

This modification allows you to create personalized smilies by choosing eyes, mouth and face. The smilie set that was used for the graphics is one of the most popular and beautiful ones (see screenshots). It is possible to create up to 18000 different smilies for this so hours of fun are guaranteed! Additionaly, it includes plugins for custom WOL location, so that they don't show up as unknown and a handy bbcode (bbcode example: [smilie=1,2,3]) to put those smilies in posts. There is a field in the smilie maker which displays the bbcode that should be used so that the user can copy it from there. Every action is made via javascript so that the page does not reload. It is fully phrased so translations are now a piece of cake!

DEMO: http://www.e-steki.com/forum/smmaker.php (Note that the demo is in greek. However as there is not much text in this hack, you'll probably find your way )

Important:You need GD enabled in your server to use this (and almost all image-creating-on-the-fly mods so you better tell them to enable it if they haven't already ) Also this doesn't work in some forums that have the hack for transparent pngs in IE.

Installation
-1 product file which adds 5 plugins, 1 template, 4 AdminCP settings and 15 phrases.
-2 php file uploads
-1 folder with images upload
-1 small template edit
Detailed instructions are included in the accompanying zip file.

Please be kind and click INSTALL if you have installed this mod. I *can* see this you know!

I hope you enjoy this mod as much as I enjoyed making it

Changelog:
Version 1.7
-Made the tables for the eyes, mouth and face collapsible
-Added 15 more eyes, 15 more mouths and 2 more faces
-Added text to show till a smilie is made so that the user doesn't think that nothing is happening. The text disappears after the creation of the smilie.
-Fixed the bug with the preview of the BBcode.

Version 1.6
-Added AdminCP option to hide the creation buttons to guests and show a message instead
-Added AdminCP option to hide the bbcode editbox so that forums with a lot of traffic don't get a big server load from many dynamic smilies. (to completely disable the functionality though you have to disable one plugin and not perform the suggested template edit)

Version 1.5
-Added Random Smilie button
-Added bbcode like [smilie=1,2,3] to use custom smilies in posts. Beware that this may be server-intensive in big forums.
-Editbox that displays the bbcode that should be copied, which also changes with javascript instantly.
-Fully phrased now
-Template and phrase addition is done with the attached product
-Link in the smilie popup to the smilie maker
-Custom WOL locations
-A lot shorter image URL

As english is not my native language I may have done some grammar mistakes. I would really appreciate it of you reported them in this thread

Thanks to KW802's mod for inspiring me on how to use the javascript.

Translations availiable

• French

[rb290]

nevermind
whats the link for the smilies page supposed to look like ?

[TJFweb]

Originally Posted by TJFweb

You know what would be great? If users could create a smilie and have it save on the server so that it appears in their smilie panel to the right when posting a message.

Alternatively, it would be great if the Javascript could also output the appropriate [IMG] tags for the smilie so a user can just copy and paste the code to put in a post. You could even put a 'Copy [IMG] code' button there which would copy the appropriate code to the user's clipboard, saving them from having to highlight the code and click copy.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by TJFweb

Alternatively, it would be great if the Javascript could also output the appropriate [IMG] tags for the smilie so a user can just copy and paste the code to put in a post. You could even put a 'Copy [IMG] code' button there which would copy the appropriate code to the user's clipboard, saving them from having to highlight the code and click copy.

If you had enough users making their own smiles, that might be a lot of smilies on the server. I think this hack is more for Admins to make smilies for their site than for users, or am I wrong?

[gael11]

Sorry but I don't understand anything to the install file.
What do you mean at step 2:

Upload e-steki_smilie_creator.php to your forum/modules folder

This folder doesn't exist !!!

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by gael11

Sorry but I don't understand anything to the install file.
What do you mean at step 2:

This folder doesn't exist !!!

Why not make the folder then?

[gael11]

good idea lol but it's very slow and don't work with firefox !

[lairnoc]

he it works good here with firefox. just too bad the smilies don't get uploaded too the forum

[gael11]

What's the problem so ?
I obtain that links: http://127.0.0.1/vb/modules/e-steki_...or/mouth/7.png

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by gael11

What's the problem so ?
I obtain that links: http://127.0.0.1/vb/modules/e-steki_...or/mouth/7.png

Maybe it works different on your localhost.

[TJFweb]

Originally Posted by Boofo

If you had enough users making their own smiles, that might be a lot of smilies on the server. I think this hack is more for Admins to make smilies for their site than for users, or am I wrong?

Alternatively it could just save the dynamic image code (perhaps it could be made a little shorter?) to a MySQL table and then display it in the user's smilie panel.

There could even be a Control Panel page where users could see the smilies they've created, choose to display them in their smilie panel, or choose to delete them.

Suggestions, suggestions I think those are good ideas though.

Edit: Whoa how have I possibly been on this board for four years now... :S