Mod suggestion: Custom smileys

[Maniac_]

There is a vB mod that i really liked.. It's called MySmilies... basically what it does, is allowing members to upload their own custom smileys to their profile, and use them when typing.. Like the existing smileys, just personal.

I think it would fit to a good community, and ive seen it work on a similar site, years ago.. It was great fun.

Details:

What Does This Hack Do?

This hack puts the control of the smilies on the users. It lets any user (that you give permission to) upload or modify the smilies that he can use.

These are not the smilies that vb uses, these are user-customized smilies. The smilies that you already have in place are preserved and are still used. But users may upload their own smilies for their use, and they are kept separate from the standard forum smilies.

For users:

Users can keep a library of their own smilies (they can upload them from their computer or web)
Users enter their replacement text, for example, :iamhappy: would be changed to their own user happy smilie
The custom smilies are parsed in any post, signature, or pm
If they have enabled the WYSIWYG editor, smilies are shown there


For administrators:

Usergroup control of who may upload custom smilies
Usergroup control of the size (width, height, size in bytes) of the smilie
Smilie quota, both for max number of smilies and max number of bytes or hard disk space
The administrator can choose where to save the smilies (the directory, default: mysmiliesvb)
Auto-template Injection - if the appropriate template hooks are available, you will not need to make any template edits at all, if edits needed you only need to paste a single variable where you need it

What does KWWH think?

Maniac_ Reviewed by Maniac_ on 3rd Nov 2011. Mod suggestion: Custom smileys There is a vB mod that i really liked.. It's called MySmilies... basically what it does, is allowing members to upload their own custom smileys to their profile, and use them when typing.. Like the existing smileys, just personal. I think it would fit to a good community, and ive seen it work on a similar site, years ago.. It was great fun. Details: What does KWWH think? :) Rating: 5

[Daniel]

It may work, but we must have rules and boundaries.

[Jesse]

I think it'd cheapen up the forum a lot

[Daniel]

^ Yes, that's the downside.

[Capone]

I Agree this will turn this place into a circus

[MsJacquiiC]

No hack needed really - if someone wants to post their own smilies, they'll do like I do and upload them to imageshack or photobucket or their own imageupload site - and hotlink from there.

My opinion...

J.

[Nitish]

Bitch, please!

[Hawk]

Fail Nitish.

OT: I think it's a very bad suggestion, they can just use the img tags.

[Gaurav]

Fail Nitish.

OT: I think it's a very bad suggestion, they can just use the img tags.

Image tags don't work in CB

[vizoomer]

i've personally seen such chatboxes and trust me .. they suck