1 Topic by reviewum.com (edited by reviewum.com 2007-02-13 02:00)

  • Registered: 2004-11-19
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Topic: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

Hey everyone!

I've got a community that loves their smilies / emoticons.   I want the other admin users to be able to load up the mods and I'm wondering which of the mods / plugins for GUI smiley submissions people are using?

A few of my personal top features:

1)  Super easy for non-tech admins to use
2)  Secure and fast (adheres to punbb philosophy)
3)  Will be backward compatible with existing smilies
4)  Will work with "Easy BBCode"

I really thought punbb_smilies would work perfectly for me, but I can't get it to work with existing smilies (see here: http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=938)

BTW, some of these mods store the files in the DB and some don't.  Which method do you think is better and why?

Also, if you are using custom smilies, how do you present them to users?  Do you show all the custom smilies and allow a click to insert (like easy BBcode)?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and suggestions!

Rob Ludlow 
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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

I use the one I wrote + the smiley menu I wrote smile

  • Registered: 2004-11-19
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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

Come on elbekko... sell me on your solution!   wink

Does it fulfill the following:
1)  Super easy for non-tech admins to use
2)  Secure and fast (adheres to punbb philosophy)
3)  Will be backward compatible with existing smilies
4)  Will work with "Easy BBCode"
ALSO: 5)  Will it be easily convertible to punbb 1.3 ?

Seriously though, I think your solution (found here: http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=207 ) looks really good, but am mostly concerned about integrating into the DB and compatibility with punbb 1.3.    Any thoughts?   Also, what are the pro's / con's with putting these into the DB?  I'm sure there is a reason why Rickard didn't originally put smilies into the DB, right?

Thank for your thoughts (and anybody else who wants to add their 2 cents!)

Rob Ludlow 
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  • Registered: 2006-05-04
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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

BBC code it isent smilie mod bott you kan use it like a Smilie mod smile Link: http://www.punres.org/desc.php?pid=50

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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

reviewum.com wrote:

Come on elbekko... sell me on your solution!   wink

You have the Smiley Menu and the Easy Custom Smilies mod.

Does it fulfill the following:
1)  Super easy for non-tech admins to use

Yes, rather easy

2)  Secure and fast (adheres to punbb philosophy)

Quite, AFAIK

3)  Will be backward compatible with existing smilies

Yes

4)  Will work with "Easy BBCode"

I guess so.

ALSO: 5)  Will it be easily convertible to punbb 1.3 ?

I believe it will.

  • Registered: 2004-11-19
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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

SOLD!  wink

I'll give it a try and provide any feedback.    I love punres, but the one thing that drives me crazy is that there aren't screenshots for every mod that has a GUI element to it.   I would LOVE to see screenshots <hint hint> for both of these mods.  I've seen some mods where there is a quick screencap of each version along side the download in the "files" section. <hint again>  big_smile

Rob Ludlow 
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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

The smiley menu includes a screenshot I think. I'll see about the other one smile

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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

I didn't think about this before, but I'm noticing that as I add new smilies that they are all being added to my easybbcode mod.  This is fine for 3 - 5 new smilies, but my community will probably want to add 30 - 40 of varying sizes and shapes.   This would make my post.php page SUPER huge and ugly.    Is there a way to either:

1)  Have the smiles hidden but have a link either open up a window with smilies or in a new window?
2)  Have the basic 12 smiles be available via easybbcode, but have the rest only be available by typing in the smiliey code?

Thanks much!

Rob Ludlow 
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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

Well, you could always try to put a limit on the amount of smilies shown. When you limit to the first 12, it'll be the standard smilies that are shown wink

  • Registered: 2004-11-19
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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

Very interesting idea, thanks...

BTW, I couldn't find the smiley menu screenshot.

Rob Ludlow 
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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

There's posted in the release thread. It's a buggy one tho, but you get the main idea wink

  • Registered: 2004-11-19
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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

elbekko, I installed the Easy Custom Smilies mod, but was surprised that I couldn't edit the names / details of the individual smilies.  That's one of the things I really like about the punbb_smilies mod. 

I like your mod's concept, but to be completely honest, I really do like the interface of the other smilies mod that looks like the pic below.  The main reason I'm not using that mod is that it isn't backwards compatible with existing smilies:

http://www.nifty-stuff.com/img/getimg/smilies_mod.jpg

Rob Ludlow 
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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
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Re: What Smiley Mods Do You Use For Easy Smilies / Custom Smilies ?

Hrmm, I don't have an edit function? Well, that feature will definately be included when I do the 1.3 extension (I won't do any changes for 1.2 versions now).