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,

[ozmazdaclub]

*Clicks Install

[ph03nIX]

I am not sure if this is the hack I was looking for or not. One of the forums I go to have it where on the new thread/reply page they have their smilies categorized like:

Basic
-smilies here-

Other
-smilies here-

Is this hack supposed to do this or did I do something wrong when I installed it?

Here is a snapshot:
http://locodreamers.com/snapshot.jpg

Is this correct? And if it is am I looking for a different hack or an add-on or something?

And yeah, I have 2 different smilie categories in the admicp.

Hope that made sense...

Thanks.

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by ph03nIX

I am not sure if this is the hack I was looking for or not. One of the forums I go to have it where on the new thread/reply page they have their smilies categorized like:

Basic
-smilies here-

Other
-smilies here-

Is this hack supposed to do this or did I do something wrong when I installed it?

Here is a snapshot:
http://locodreamers.com/snapshot.jpg

Is this correct? And if it is am I looking for a different hack or an add-on or something?

And yeah, I have 2 different smilie categories in the admicp.

Hope that made sense...

Thanks.

Hi,

this hack lets you categorize all your smilies when you click on the button "more smilies" on your reply page. It does not categorize your smilies on the right side of your reply box. Only if you click on the "more" button.

Hope this clarifies.

Cheers,

[ph03nIX]

OK, I am going to email the admin of the board then and ask him where he got it then.

But thanks for the help man. Still a great hack and plan to keep it. Good job with it. :ninja:

[James Goddard]

Originally Posted by Pseudomizer

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,

Did you ever find a fix for this?

[T3MEDIA]

Listen since you seem to know exactly what is going on around here LOL how do you set up permisions for these catagories... you think you will add this?
I am clicking install where ever you have a hack that is for sure.

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

Listen since you seem to know exactly what is going on around here LOL how do you set up permisions for these catagories... you think you will add this?
I am clicking install where ever you have a hack that is for sure.

Hi T3media,

currently I do not aim to integrate permissions on the categories. But never say no. Let's see.

Cheers,

[spence2]

Thank you!

[TCattitude]

Pseudomizer, and what about to add a item in the form list to show all smilies (from all categories)?

It's posible?
How?

I like this hack, but some users who don't want to know all smilies in certain category would wish to display all of them, like the old way.
Is too hard to add a "show all" item and display the entire collection of smilies?

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by TCattitude

Pseudomizer, and what about to add a item in the form list to show all smilies (from all categories)?

It's posible?
How?

I like this hack, but some users who don't want to know all smilies in certain category would wish to display all of them, like the old way.
Is too hard to add a "show all" item and display the entire collection of smilies?

Hello TCattitude,

this would be possible but i would strongly recommend not to do it. Before my hack you had all smilies on one page. With my hack you have the ability to show the smilies in different categories.

What you are requesting would be a major change to the userprofile, the templates and the smilie php file to add the ability to set which mode you wish to have to display the smilies: with or without categories.

If you would implement something like this then some of your members who would like to see the smilies without categories will get timeouts because you have to many smilies or the load of the page would take ages.

My hack is aiming for the boards which want to implement a lot of smilies and make it browseable with the appropriate performance.

So my suggestion for you: If the majority of your members don't like the categories switch back to the normal view. Otherwise stay with my hack.

Cheers,