Smilies not showing in New Forum Posts block

[Evilbeard]

This is possibly a quick fix if the right person is reading! I have added the New Forum Posts block on to my forums & the new posts are showing. However instead of showing any smilies in the posts, it is showing the smiley name.

eg

instead of showing it shows : D

The smilies show fine in the actual post!

Thanks in advance.

[kh99]

It's that way intentionally. The New Forum Posts block calls a function get_summary(), which is in includes/class_block.php. That does a bunch of processing to get a text-only version of the message to display. I think it's done because there's no room for the entire message, and if you try to shorten the non-text only version you have an issue with making sure all bbcode or html tags get closed.

Anyway, I'm not sure what you'd do to get smilies. I suppose you might be able to figure out a function to add them back in, but I don't think there's any option for it.

[Evilbeard]

Cheers for the response pal.

I don't think it is a setting, I have been through it with a fine tooth comb! If anyone knows of a fix, it would be greatly appreciated!!

[RedTurtle]

For Smilies in Forum Blocks:

Edit ./includes/class_block.php

Search for :

return htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_censored_text(
            trim(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbcode($page_text, $strip_quotes, false, false, true), $length))));

Replace with:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
$parser = new vB_BbCodeParser($this->registry, fetch_tag_list());
$parsed_text = $parser->do_parse(fetch_censored_text(trim(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbcode($page_text, $strip_quotes, false, false, true), $length))), false, true, false);

return $parsed_text;

This works on vB 4.2.0 but for some reason does not work on 4.2.1.

If anyone could provide a solution to get it to work on 4.2.1 that would be awesome.

EDIT: Actually this does work on 4.2.1 -- I was mistaken.

[Evilbeard]

Originally Posted by RedTurtle

For Smilies in Forum Blocks:

Edit ./includes/class_block.php

Search for :

return htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_censored_text(
            trim(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbcode($page_text, $strip_quotes, false, false, true), $length))));

Replace with:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
$parser = new vB_BbCodeParser($this->registry, fetch_tag_list());
$parsed_text = $parser->do_parse(fetch_censored_text(trim(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbcode($page_text, $strip_quotes, false, false, true), $length))), false, true, false);

return $parsed_text;

This works on vB 4.2.0 but for some reason does not work on 4.2.1.

If anyone could provide a solution to get it to work on 4.2.1 that would be awesome.

EDIT: Actually this does work on 4.2.1 -- I was mistaken.

Brilliant!! Thanks!