I like smilies :D

Would love to add smilies!

Ascii smiles, how 1987.

I think ascii smilies are perfect for this flavour of Vanilla personally, but might be nice to have gif smilies on other installs.

That said I just remembered the old

=)

which is possibly the slickest smilie ever, don't think it could be beaten

it would be cool if you could write the extension to display either a gif or a text version of each one depending on if they were in text only mode.

smilies would definitely be an awesome extension. a lot of people hate them, a lot of people love them.

i tried writing this extension already, but im just not a proficient coder enough to do such a task.

In theory, a well written smilie extension would take care of processing comments after the Html, Markdown, or plain text formatter has got its hands on them. That way you don't need to do anything special to accomodate different formatting styles.

> In theory, a well written smilie extension would take care of processing comments after the Html, Markdown, or plain text formatter has got its hands on them. That way you don't need to do anything special to accomodate different formatting styles.

I suppose you could write an extension that extends the StringManipulator class and then replaces the StringManipulator object reference in the Context with itself. That's assuming I understand things correctly about how vanilla works :)

Now if only I could figure out how to call a parent class's functions in php, I'd have this extension 50% done already ;) (thanks to mark's new documentation on extensions!! )

How do you use the smilies? Does the extension automagically change :-) into a smiley?

This is awesome.

Is there a way to make it so that smilies are created in the normal text mode? Switching to BBCode mode isn't too vital for my forums, so I'l rather not confuse the kids with the options.

hey ghazi,

nice work!

Yeah, rewrite your own TextFormatter (see the source code somewhere in the library/ directory), and replace its reference with your new TextFormatter. did it once, lost the code, it was pretty trivial. Didn't try it with the ObjectFactory->SetReference though, I just did something like

StringFormatter->formatters['text']=$mySmiliesFormatter;

or whatever it is... too lazy to look at the source and try it out right now, but it worked!

110 smilies?! are there even that many facial expressions possible in the human face?!

how do you know what the bbcode is for 110 smilies? surely you don't learn them all!

it's very true - since it's planet-tolkien smilies this set even include orc's and elves, and just to be really annoying quite a few christmas ones too; aside from the basic faces most are in the format :word: theres a crib sheet included in the archive on the current site there's a drop down list that inserts it automaticly and at some point i'm going to have to figure out how to put that into Vanilla.

but funny. you must admit.

I miss this place. I am back at school and just don't ALL the free time I had before to hang out here. I will try and spend an hour here every night to help out and stay on top of things though.

On a more serious note, I think 110 smilies is a little over the top. I am glad it is an extension. That is all I can say.

Even i agree it's a bit over the top, you could easily cut about 50% of them and still have too many. Unfortunately my site members expressed a desire for them to stay - least 60% of the 5000 members asked for them in the poll i took! Plus it took quite a long time to get them all in there so i thought i'd share them - there may be other simily addicted sites out there who need an ork grinning and snowman.

Smilies.... also on my todo-develop-extension list :D Just waiting for Vanillia 0.9.3..... don't wanna do things twice :D

Well... don't know exactly. In this case I don't think the StringManipulator will be much different. But you never know what Mark's up to :P