Smile: The new feature-rich Smiley-Extension

Stash · February 2007

I was just wondering why the smilies URLs had a double forward slash // in them, like this: /vanilla//extensions/Smile/tango/face-plain.png

Any chance of changing it to /vanilla/extensions/Smile/tango/face-plain.png ?

Also, I've got some strange behaviour with the caret placement after inserting a smiley in IE6 (WinXP SP2). I'm not sure exactly, but it seems to shunt the caret forwards a few characters after the inserted smiley, instead of at the end of the smiley.

Wanderer · February 2007

The caret?
What are you using [-Stash-],
a Commodore 64?
We call it a cursor these days.

Posted: Tuesday, 20 February 2007 at 2:27PM (AEDT)

y2kbg · February 2007

good point......

chris · February 2007

is it possible to have the list of smilies appear above the comment input box please? in between the "whisper to..." input and the comment input. it gets a bit muddled underneath with the attachments, and comment formatting options etc

Ares · February 2007

I would like that too! For me the prefered location would be between the Quicktags and the comment input.

Stash · February 2007

WikipediaThe term caret is also sometimes used in graphical user interface terminology where it means a text insertion point indicator, frequently represented by a blinking vertical bar. In this context, it may be used interchangeably with the word cursor, although the latter term is often reserved for a mouse pointer.

*You* might call it a cursor Wanderer, but that's what I call the "mouse pointer".
Muppet

Liking this extension a lot, great work defel. I quite like it where it is, so if you are going to allow it to go above the comment box, please could you make it an option instead of just changing it?

y2kbg · February 2007

also a good point..........

Wanderer · February 2007

Hey [-Stash-], Kermit appears as a thin line in Safari.
Apparently it does not like the 25% attribute.
Later...
That's better.

Posted: Thursday, 22 February 2007 at 10:29AM (AEDT)

Stash · February 2007

For those of you experiencing errors with PreviewPost 2.2, I've had success with the following change (perhaps SirNot can tell me if this is the wrong way to do it?)...

In default.php, I changed line 257 from:if (in_array($Context->SelfUrl, array("post.php", "comments.php", "settings.php"))) {
To:if (in_array($Context->SelfUrl, array("post.php", "comments.php", "settings.php")) && isset($Head)) {
Also, carrying on from Ares comment above (#17), if you have converted from Invision Power Board 2 (specifically, this is taken from 2.2), then save this next text as IPB2.2.txt and put all the default IPB emoticons into /Smile/IPB2.2/:

#
smile :) :-)
biggrin :D :biggrin: =D
laugh :lol: :LOL:
wub :wub:
cool B) B-)
tongue :P :-P :-p =P
wink ;) ;-)
happy ^_^ :happy: =)
rolleyes :rolleyes:
huh :huh:
ohmy :o :O
sad :( :-(
angry :angry: :mad: >=[ >=(
mellow :mellow:
sleep -_- :sleep:
dry <_<
unsure :unsure:
wacko :wacko:
blink :blink:
ph34r :ph34r:
blush :blush:
excl :!:

Or download the RAR

You can see these icons here.

mahodder · February 2007

I am using the latest version 0.6 and the IPB2.2 icons. When ever anyone types "from" it shows: [Emoticon not found] Why would this happen??

mahodder · February 2007

@-Stash- - I also tried it on your forum and it does the same thing, so at least its not only mine!

Stash · February 2007

I've amended the post above and the RAR file, I've also updated the order of the icons to something I think is a little more logical.

Seems there are some problems with the # comments in that file, so please update to the corrected version above. Sorry for the cockup.

Stash · February 2007

Just thought I'd share some changes I've made to Smile for myself. Obviously I'd love it if these were included in 0.7, but that's up to defel

default.php

To get this to work with PreviewPost 2.2, I changed line 257 from:if (in_array($Context->SelfUrl, array("post.php", "comments.php", "settings.php"))) {To:if (in_array($Context->SelfUrl, array("post.php", "comments.php", "settings.php")) && isset($Head)) {
To make it more valid HTML when you have more than one set of Smileys activated at the same time (it used to have 2 identically ID's DIVs), I changed line 261 from: echo "<div id='smileyBox'>";To: echo "<div class='smileySet'>";
And for my own semantic preference, I changed line 266 from:

        echo sprintf('<span class=\'smileyBox\' title=\'%s\' alt=\'%s\' onclick="insertSmile(\'%s\')">', $smiley->key, $smiley->key, $smiley->aliases[0]);

To:

        echo sprintf('<span class=\'Smiley\' title=\'%s\' alt=\'%s\' onclick="insertSmile(\'%s\')">', $smiley->key, $smiley->key, $smiley->aliases[0]);

style.css

If you made the 2nd change above you will need to change the CSS file from:

#smileyBox img {
       margin: 0 5px;
}

To:

div.smileySet img {
       margin: 0 2px !important;
}

The 2nd line change here is my own personal preference as I thought the smilies were too spaced out.

Ares · March 2007

I edited the vanilla.css with the following lines:

#Comments img {
	vertical-align:middle;
	}

This will align the emoticons to the middle of the text. Standard the emoticons are displayed a few pixels too high.

When you're using the little IPB icons (see above), paragraphs now show consistent line-spaces.

Stash · March 2007

I would have thought it would be better to make this change to the Smile style.css ?

Stash · March 2007

Yes, just add this to /Smile/style.css:

img.smiley {
 border:0;
 vertical-align:middle;
}

works like a dream

abramelin · March 2007

this extension gives this error; Warning: fopen(/home/hebel/public_html/hebel/extensions/Smile/cache_tango) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/hebel/public_html/hebel/extensions/Smile/default.php on line 131 Cant write Cache

Stash · March 2007

The hint's in Cant write Cache. Your cache directory probably isn't writeable...

abramelin · March 2007

there is no cache directory in /extensions/Smile/ directory because there is no directory called cache in the zip file of this extension. should it be?

Stash · March 2007

By default Smile uses /extensions/Smile/ as the cache directory, so you need to ensure that PHP has permissions to write to it. If you can't change the those permissions, try CHMODing the directory to 777 and see if that fixes it.