phpBB: Post smilies without the annoying control panel.

[jasonb]

I recently realised that the phpBB forum I go to most often (MozillaZine) while not having the smiley "control panel" that's part of a default install (I don't have it here either) does have a little link underneath "Message body" titled "Add Smilies" - which you see when composing a message.

I don't currently remember how I got rid of the smilies (or emoticon) control panel (although I did post about having done so here, so I can't document that step of things.

(Actually, I wish now that I had documented all of the things I did initially to customize it from the defaults. I also removed the "BBCode" panel - no doubt in a similar fashion. Oh, well.)

In any case, assuming that you've (somehow) got rid of the smilies panel, here's what you can do to add a non-obtrusive link to it, as I've already done here.

You have to make two changes.

One to templates/subSilver/posting_body.tpl, changing:

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<td class="row1" width="100px"><span class="gen"><b>{L_MESSAGE_BODY}</b></span></td>

to:

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<td class="row1" width="100px"><span class="gen"><b>{L_MESSAGE_BODY}</b></span><p><a href="{U_MORE_SMILIES}" onclick="window.open('{U_MORE_SMILIES}', '_phpbbsmilies', 'HEIGHT=300,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,WIDTH=250');return false;" target="_phpbbsmilies" class="nav">{L_MORE_SMILIES}</a></td>

The other change was to language/lang_english/lang_main.php, changing:

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$lang['More_emoticons'] = 'View more Emoticons';

to:

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$lang['More_emoticons'] = 'Add Smilies';

After that, you should now see things as they are here.

I'm off to grab some more smilies for those people who like to use them...

[jasonb]

Also, there's a really good set of additional smilies that I've installed here. Aside from actually composing something and clicking on the "Add Smilies" link, you can get a preview of them here, and download them from here.

To fix things so that they all fit into the popup window, you need to change two files.

Edit includes/functions_post.php to make the following change:

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$window_columns = 7;

Edit templates/subSilver/posting_body.tpl in the following manner:

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<td class="row1" width="100px"><spanclass="gen"><b>{L_MESSAGE_BODY}</b></span><p><a href="{U_MORE_SMILIES}" onclick="window.open('{U_MORE_SMILIES}', '_phpbbsmilies','HEIGHT=310,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,WIDTH=310');return false;"target="_phpbbsmilis" class="nav">{L_MORE_SMILIES}</a></td>