Topic: How to add smileys to a forum

[Shadow]

Only farmate is gif ONLY to upload "Smileys"

You need to found the smileys zipfiles or you can use yours own for this too.   

1 - Download the file on your computer and unzip that file to access all yours smileys. Log into your cpanel or ftp access you have. 
2 - Then go to File Manager its will bring you up to all yours folders for your forum or whatever you have.  You will need to go to public_html folder yours home root then go to the Smileys folder.  Its should look like this / public_html / Smileys /
3 - You will need to create a new folder in yours smileys folder. Name the folder custom for yours smileys. Then go in that folder and upload yours smileys in that folder you name. Its should look like this / public_html / Smileys / custom /
4 - Now you will need to log into you admin panel on your forum.  Go to Smileys and Message Icons in you panel on your forum.
5 - Its will bring you up to a screen right.  You will see "new smiley set" Hit that its will bring you up to a screen you will need to fill out.

Here its should look like

Before you fill it out

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After you fill it out

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6 - After you fille that screen out hit save and its will bring you up too a screen look like this.

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7 - Now go over to "Add Smiley " and hit it too.  Will bring you up to a screen asking to pick your smileys from a drop down mena box also you will see "Add new smiley" on the secenod part That will ask you to put in a code for that smiley to use on the forum.  Plus its will ask you for that smiley "Location" and you will see a drop down mena box will three picks.

Last Part is Hit save changes

Remember dont use the same code over and over.  You can add lots of smiley set you want too.  You can have yahoo, msn, aol ect for their own folder too.

[bigguy]

Nice work.

[Shadow]

Thank you

[qubbah]

im cant see this option


only smileys sets and setting but not other option in my admin smileys setup.

[Shadow]

Go to the admin panel -- smileys and message icons --- then go over to the setting --- then you will see a drop down mena for the smileys pick your semileys you uploading on your sever they you will see thress check box check all three of them then hit save

[Hassan_007]

Ok...i've a problem...I have accidently deleted the OLD Smilies/emoticons...and downloaded the lots of smilies MOD..and i installed through the Packages....its all messed up...take a look at this screenshot




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i dont understand why isn't working??

[bigguy]

You could get the full install zip and extract the smilies and upload them after uninstalling the lots a smilies mod. That would get it back to normal.

[Hassan_007]

sorry i dont understand.....

[TrueSatan]

 First uninstall the Lots of Smileys mod.

 SMF offer a package (not a mod) that contains the files etc you need to install a new forum...get that...extract the files from the package on your local machine and from those files find the smileys then upload them onto your server in the appropriate directory ...this will restore the smileys you deleted.

[Hassan_007]

i did that..but NOW,all i get is the words...NO image shows up at all.....

[TrueSatan]

Go to ACP>Forum>Smileys and Message Icons>Settings

Make "Default" the default smiley set...check that the paths shown are correct and alter them if needed (in the Smiley Sets tab.)

[Hassan_007]

No changes at all MAN.... ...if you got the time man...i am willing to PM ya my TEST account...so you can solve it for me....cos i've been trying since my FIRST POST AT THIS TOPIC...some 4 Hours ago...

[TrueSatan]

OK...do that...it will need to be an admin account for me to do anything to fix the problem though.

[Hassan_007]

Yep, ok infor send...hope you can fix the problem man...

[TrueSatan]

Solved...several things were wrong:

• Path to smileys incorrect.
• Smileys directory name changed from Smileys to smileys
• CHMOD settings incorrect

 There are a number of things I've seen that I'll bring to your attention via PM and that you ought to fix.

[Hassan_007]

Thank you so much mate, i know there are MANY things wrong with my BOARD, as bigguy will tell you..i almost struggle to install with every single package/modification.

 :peace

[TrueSatan]

OK...in fact your board needs to be rebuilt with a fresh set of files...currently it is a mix of several SMF versions. That alone would explain many different problems. I've sent you a PM listing others including some I wouldn't post publicly.

[Hassan_007]

 

I will backup my data, and delete all the old files and install the latest version of SMF...


 :victory

[n4tec]

Do you really have to go through all that trouble? i thought smf had a patch for 1.1.2 to 1.1.3.. correct me if am wrong.

[TrueSatan]

Yes there is a patch for 1.1.2 to 1.1.3 but there is a lot more wrong in those files than would be covered by that patch. There are old files left over from previous SMF versions that ought to have been replaced by previous patches but weren't...other files are simply mangled. By far the easiest solution is to replace the lot and start afresh with a clean set.

[n4tec]

Thanx for the detailed clarification.

[antechinus]

Only farmate is gif ONLY to upload "Smileys"

Ok, straight away I'm confused. What's "farmate"?
Do you mean that gif is the only format allowed when uploading smileys or is this some other technical term I don't know about?

You need to found the smileys zipfiles or you can use yours own for this too.   

1 - Download the file on your computer and unzip that file to access all yours smileys. Log into your cpanel or ftp access you have. 
2 - Then go to File Manager its will bring you up to all yours folders for your forum or whatever you have.  You will need to go to public_html folder yours home root then go to the Smileys folder.  Its should look like this / public_html / Smileys /

Where do I find the File Manager? I cant see it listed on the admin control panel.

3 - You will need to create a new folder in yours smileys folder.

How? Where?

Name the folder custom for yours smileys. Then go in that folder and upload yours smileys in that folder you name. Its should look like this / public_html / Smileys / custom /
4 - Now you will need to log into you admin panel on your forum.  Go to Smileys and Message Icons in you panel on your forum.
5 - Its will bring you up to a screen right.  You will see "new smiley set" Hit that its will bring you up to a screen you will need to fill out.

Here its should look like

Before you fill it out

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After you fill it out

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6 - After you fille that screen out hit save and its will bring you up too a screen look like this.

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7 - Now go over to "Add Smiley " and hit it too.  Will bring you up to a screen asking to pick your smileys from a drop down mena box also you will see "Add new smiley" on the secenod part That will ask you to put in a code for that smiley to use on the forum.  Plus its will ask you for that smiley "Location" and you will see a drop down mena box will three picks.

Last Part is Hit save changes

Remember dont use the same code over and over.  You can add lots of smiley set you want too.  You can have yahoo, msn, aol ect for their own folder too.

Ok. That bit makes sense to me.

[cocoathai]

I'm with antechinus (above me on this thread)  I have the same questions about this he highlighted.  I've been trying to do this all night now and i'm still stuck in the add a smiley wasteland.... can someone please explain those points?

[bigguy]

What do you need explained. Get some smilies from somewhere and have them on your desktop ready. Next... go into the Smileys Directory in your SMF install and make a new folder. Then ftp the smilies from your desktop to the new folder you made in the Smileys  directory.

Next go to the admin panel of your SMF install to the Smileys and Message Icons part and in the drop down you should see the folder you created.

[antechinus]

Righty, me got question again. Dontcha just love it? 

How do I find the Smileys Directory? We are needing the idiot proof instructions here.

[TrueSatan]

The Smileys directory is in your forum root...the forum root also includes the Settings.php file. You would get to it via use of a file manager on your hosting or via an ftp client...a piece of software used to halp manage your site...I recommend Filezilla.

 The systems within your forum allow you to manage your smileys quite well without need of going to the directory so please review them first.

ACP>Smileys and Message Icons

[antechinus]

Ok, let's see if I have this straight. I've got the admin centre up in another tab. Are you saying that if I simply direct link to a smiley at, for instance, Smiley Jungle by using the "upload new smiley" option it'll be cool?

[TrueSatan]

Not quite...download the smiley to your local machine then upload from there to your site. You will then need to allocate it to a set of keypresses and to at least one smiley set...it's all fairly straitforward if you follow the layout in the ACP. You have to first allow "Enable Customised Smileys" in the settings...then go to "Add Smiley"...that gives the upload system etc.

[antechinus]

Ok, I think I've got it. Ill give it a go.Thanks.

[antechinus]

No go. Default and classic can't be selected, which means I can't provide a path. They're not writeable.

[antechinus]

Tell ya what; to save dramas for everyone let's try doing this the idiot-proof way.
Anyone got any links to a good smiley package that already comes as an SMF mod?
That way even a drooling Neanderthal can install it via the admin centre. (see, I'm getting cunning)

[bigguy]

There are smiley packs on the mod site for download.

[TrueSatan]

Sort of...http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=77

 That's a biggish pack anyhow but all the mod does is to drop the smileys in a new directory in your existing smileys directory...the rest is still manual and you could have just as easily put the directory there via ftp....BTW don't work about the version limits shown on the mod page...it's such a simple mod it will work with all SMF versions.

[TrueSatan]

There are smiley packs on the mod site for download.

 Yep but I'm not sure if any of them do more as a package install than the one I quoted above...personally I'd just unpack the mod and ftp 'em in place.

 BTW we have a big pack of smileys in our downloads section...goodness knows how they got there.

[antechinus]

I'm confused again. This is normal.
I'm trying to get that "default pack" of smileys running on my test forum. I extracted all the files from the zip and then uploaded the file into my Smileys/custom folder. It aint working properly so I've obviously done something wrong. All I'm getting is text saying "wink", etc and no smileys.
Also the number of "smileys" isn't the same as what's in the unzipped file.

Questions;

1/ Do I have to upload every smiley individually rather than just uploading the entire unzipped file?

2/ What about the files saying ".htaccess" and "index"? What do they do?

[TrueSatan]

Have you considered a change of username to "Confused of Australia"? Only kidding and we're always here to help whenever you have a problem.

 Answers from last to first of your queries:

 index.php in a directory can do many things...it can display an actual index page or it can simply prevent the users having direct access to the contents of the directory...putting an empty index.php file in a directory full of images that have access to them controlled by other files stops users from accessing that directory and either hotlinking to those files or downloading the lot for their own use.

 .htaccess is a UNIX (so also Linux and BSD and other UNIX based/like operating system file. The following tutorial explains some of their many uses:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html

 To use smileys you have uploaded into the Smileys directory the general path should be forum root/Smileys/custom_smiley_directory/

 Go to ACP>Smileys and Message Icons>Settings

 Check "Enable smiley set selection by members" and "Enable customized smileys" and make sure that the paths shown there are correct.

 Go to ACP>Smileys and Message Icons>Smiley Sets

 Click on "New Smiley Set" and on the screen that opens add the custom smiley set name and its URL and check "Import smileys already in this directory"

 If you are getting text but no smiley image go to ACP>Smileys and Message Icons>Edit Smileys

 At the top of the main area showing the smileys details you can switch smiley sets...choose the problem one and modify the details of any problem smiley within it to associate text/code for the smiley with an image and put right any other problems/settings/issues with that smiley.

 To add new smileys to a smiley set where there are some smiley images in the set that aren't shown in your forum go to ACP>Smileys and Message Icons>Add Smiley

 My explanation is a bit long and tedious but it's really very easy to do the tasks involved in the use of smileys so don't be put off.

[antechinus]

Have you considered a change of username to "Confused of Australia"? Only kidding and we're always here to help whenever you have a problem.

I feel that "Confused of Australia" should be a membergroup and therefore it would be pretentious of me to appropriate the title for my personal use.

My explanation is a bit long and tedious but it's really very easy to do the tasks involved in the use of smileys so don't be put off.

Ok. One charge of the Light Brigade coming up.

[antechinus]

Ok, it's working. There was one critical piece of info missing which had me stumped. You guys are so good at this stuff you forget to think like n00bs.

The problem was that I ftp'd the "default pack" (of smileys for this site) to my public_html/weaponstestingrange/Smileys/custom folder after unzipping it, BUT because the pack had its own name the ftp process created another sub-directory with that name, which of course I didn't expect and didn't look for until my head was sore from attempting to demolish the brick wall. Consequently the smileys weren't available on the expected path and I kept seeing "smiley not in this set" in the admin centre.
Once I figured that out I found the sub-directory, moved the smileys up to the correct directory, deleted the now-unnecessary sub-directory and, hey presto, my forum is now wonderfully infested with smileys of all shapes and sizes. Now that I know how it works I can adjust the sets easily.

Remember: think_really_stoopid. 

[antechinus]

On second thought I should provide some constructive tips. Here's my take on it:

Shadow's OP said to create a "custom" sub-directory off smileys and upload the unzipped pack to that. As I found out this results in the formation of another sub-directory with the name of the pack's file. I had renamed that file but that didn't change the address on my computer, so I actually ended up with the smileys an extra two directories down from where I needed them.   

Anyway, this is going to happen with any pack of smileys because the pack will always have its own file name. If you're not used to ftp and cpanel typing in the path will simply bring up "no records found". You need to know to look for the extra sub-directory before you can find it. Beginners may not know this.

The instructions should point this out as once you're aware of it it's easy to deal with. IMO it'd be better to give the "default pack" a different name. If, for instance, it was called "SMFHelperSmileys" it could be ftp'd straight to the Smileys directory and would automatically create its own sub-directory with the expected name and in the expected place. Then it could be easily linked up from the admin centre.

As it is you can't do that because there's already a directory called default.

My 2c. 

[sheryltoo]

I'm trying to add one of the smileys I put in a custom folder to the Message Icon list and I keep getting a message saying the icon image couldn't be found in the default theme. Please be sure the image has been uploaded and try again.
It's showing in my list of smileys and works so I don't know why I can't add it to the message icon list.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
For the file name, I'm using the entire name with .gif extension. I tried leaving off the .gif but got the same error.
 
Also, is there a setting I can change so the smiley appears in the message when you click on it rather then the code?
I noticed your smileys show in the message before you hit send where as mine don't show until after you hit send. At my forum that is.
Sheryl
 

[bigguy]

The reason they show here is because we are using a wisig editor for the posting instead of just a text field like the 1.1.7 line does. Put your icon here and try to add it as a message icon:

/Themes/default/images/post

EDIT: unless you have a custom theme then put it in your custom themes post folder.

[sheryltoo]

Thanks. That worked.
Sheryl

[bigguy]

Your very welcome.