Major Additions - MySmilies VB

Tested with vb 3.6.8

This hack puts the control of the smilies on the users. It lets any user (that you give permission to) upload or modify the smilies that he can use.

These are not the smilies that vb uses, these are user-customized smilies. The smilies that you already have in place are preserved and are still used. But users may upload their own smilies for their use, and they are kept separate from the forum smilies.

For users:

• Users can keep a library of smilies (they can upload them from their computer or web)
• Users enter their replacement text, for example, :iamhappy: would be changed for his user-happy smilie
• The custom smilies are parsed in any post, signature, or pm
• If they have enabled the WYSIWYG editor, smilies are shown there

For administrators:

• Usergroup control of who may upload custom smilies
• Usergroup control of the size (width, height, size in bytes) of the smilie
• Smilie quota, both for max number of smilies and max number of bytes or hard disk space
• The administrator can choose where to save the smilies (the directory, default: mysmiliesvb)

Installation instructions
See the included readme.txt

Info for hackers:
You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
in another hack or yours or translate it provided you do it free of
charge and you distribute it in www.vbulletin.org at least, there is no
need to pm me asking for permission
Some portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

[vBulletin THEN DAYLIGHT]

Fantastic Mod.

How could I make this available to just my premium members?

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by vBulletin THEN DAYLIGHT

Fantastic Mod.

How could I make this available to just my premium members?

I suppose your premium members are in a single usergroup, only give permissions to that usergroup.

[basilrath]

do it as a promoted group , then premium who are in it are ok those who aspire to or pay towards are therefore eligble when you have stipulated within that promotion goup

[Cees]

Hi
I followed the read me , and did everything but it doesnt work... I cant see my smilies in the usercp
What im doing wrong?

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by Cees

Hi
I followed the read me , and did everything but it doesnt work... I cant see my smilies in the usercp
What im doing wrong?

You are probably missing a template modification. You can always access mysmiles at: http://YOUR_FORUM/mysmiliesvb.php

[Martin-TMGRS]

Originally Posted by Kentaurus

Do you get any error message? Does the page only reload without deleting the smilie?

No I dont get any error message. Yes the page just reloads with the same icon there

[Cees]

Originally Posted by Kentaurus

You are probably missing a template modification. You can always access mysmiles at: http://YOUR_FORUM/mysmiliesvb.php

Ok uninstall them, install them again i used the read me file, followed the steps, and changed the following rules:
Step 5. Template modifications
===================================
In the template USERCP_SHELL
Find
-------------------
<tr>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[miscellaneous]</td></tr>
Replace it with
-------------------
<tr>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[mysmiliesvb_mysmilies]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="$navclass[mysmiliesvb]" nowrap="nowrap"><a class="smallfont" href="mysmiliesvb.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[mysmiliesvb_mysmilies]</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[miscellaneous]</td>
</tr>

IN the template navbar
Find
-------------------
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editoptions">$vbphrase[edit_options]</a></td></tr>
Replace it with
-------------------
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editoptions">$vbphrase[edit_options]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="mysmiliesvb.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[mysmiliesvb_mysmilies]</a></td></tr>

DONE!!!

Thats all. I thougt, but it isnt working. If I use the direct url it works, but i dont see them in any usercp


Maybe im missing something ( i use vb since a short time ) but i dont know what i,m missing

Greetz

[cheesegrits]

Kentaurus ... do you have any kind of standard guidelines for coders who want to support MySmilies in other mods?

-- hugh

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by cheesegrits

Kentaurus ... do you have any kind of standard guidelines for coders who want to support MySmilies in other mods?

-- hugh

The code for parsing the smilies is inside bbcode_parse, the routine that vbulletin uses for parsing bbcodes, smilies, and parsing any kind of post content. Most hacks use a call to bbcode_parse, via using a BBcode parser class that is already available or creating a new one.

Because of that, the MySmilies functionality is already there. It's just that it's not being called because the hack needs to know that the userid is, the user that owns the smilies, that is. Since I didn't want to modify the function call to the bbcode_parse functions I used a global variable instead of adding parameters to the function. This is by far not the best design approach, but it is the most flexible since it requires no code modifications.

For any other hack, before your call to bbcode_parse, issue a:

$GLOBALS['mysmiliesvb_userid'] = USERID;

Where userid is the id of the user that owns the smilies. That would vary depending on the context, $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] holds the user that is currently logged in, but most of the times that's not good, since the custom smilies are user-based then each hack needs to figure out, depending on the context, what user to store in the global variable.

After the bbcode_parse call, I usually do an unset($GLOBALS['mysmiliesvb_userid']). This is not required, it's only polite, to clean up the global variable (since nobody else should be using it after the parsing).

Feel free to PM me if you want me to look at any hack and check if MySmilies could be enabled. Most of the times, if the hack keeps a userid around, it's really easy, and just one line of code.

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by Cees

Ok uninstall them, install them again i used the read me file, followed the steps, and changed the following rules:
Step 5. Template modifications
===================================
In the template USERCP_SHELL
Find
-------------------
<tr>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[miscellaneous]</td></tr>
Replace it with
-------------------
<tr>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[mysmiliesvb_mysmilies]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="$navclass[mysmiliesvb]" nowrap="nowrap"><a class="smallfont" href="mysmiliesvb.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[mysmiliesvb_mysmilies]</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[miscellaneous]</td>
</tr>

IN the template navbar
Find
-------------------
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editoptions">$vbphrase[edit_options]</a></td></tr>
Replace it with
-------------------
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editoptions">$vbphrase[edit_options]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="mysmiliesvb.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[mysmiliesvb_mysmilies]</a></td></tr>

DONE!!!

Thats all. I thougt, but it isnt working. If I use the direct url it works, but i dont see them in any usercp


Maybe im missing something ( i use vb since a short time ) but i dont know what i,m missing

Greetz

And is that the current sytle that is being used for the forums? The replacements, if done right, add the links to MySmilies You can also try adding a link at the header, or the forumhome... or anywhere for testing.