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When your smiling… (a list of smileys for wordpress)
On August 31, 2008 in Uncategorized
Warning: Nerdy content to follow
uh oh.
This is like a toddler finding the secret stash of sweets!
Today I was file diving in wordpress (the software that powers this blog) looking for a way to fix something and I made a little discovery.
A list of smileys!
As anyone who follows this blog knows, I have a weakness for smileys. So, of course, I have to post them all now to get the excitement out of my system 
<– see what I mean?
Here they are (from the file wp-inludes/funtions.php):
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| :mrgreen:’ => ‘icon_mrgreen’, ‘:neutral:’ => ‘icon_neutral’, ‘:twisted:’ => ‘icon_twisted’, ‘:arrow:’ => ‘icon_arrow’, ‘:shock:’ => ‘icon_eek’, ‘:smile:’ => ‘icon_smile’, ‘:???:’ => ‘icon_confused’, ‘:cool:’ => ‘icon_cool’, ‘:evil:’ => ‘icon_evil’, ‘:grin:’ => ‘icon_biggrin’, ‘:idea:’ => ‘icon_idea’, ‘:oops:’ => ‘icon_redface’, ‘:razz:’ => ‘icon_razz’, ‘:roll:’ => ‘icon_rolleyes’, ‘:wink:’ => ‘icon_wink’, ‘:cry:’ => ‘icon_cry’, ‘:eek:’ => ‘icon_surprised’, ‘:lol:’ => ‘icon_lol’, ‘:mad:’ => ‘icon_mad’, ‘:sad:’ => ‘icon_sad’, ‘8-)’ => ‘icon_cool’, ‘8-O’ => ‘icon_eek’, ‘:-(’ => ‘icon_sad’, ‘:-)’ => ‘icon_smile’, ‘:-?’ => ‘icon_confused’, ‘:-D’ => ‘icon_biggrin’, ‘:-P’ => ‘icon_razz’, ‘:-o’ => ‘icon_surprised’, ‘:-x’ => ‘icon_mad’, ‘:-|’ => ‘icon_neutral’, ‘;-)’ => ‘icon_wink’, ‘8)’ => ‘icon_cool’, ‘8O’ => ‘icon_eek’, ‘:(’ => ‘icon_sad’, ‘:)’ => ‘icon_smile’, ‘:?’ => ‘icon_confused’, ‘:D’ => ‘icon_biggrin’, ‘:P’ => ‘icon_razz’, ‘:o’ => ‘icon_surprised’, ‘:x’ => ‘icon_mad’, ‘:|’ => ‘icon_neutral’, ‘;)’ => ‘icon_wink’, ‘:!:’ => ‘icon_exclaim’, ‘:?:’ => ‘icon_question’, |
What a coincidence! Last week I was working on a plugin for JapanSoc so that text automatically converts into smilies. Unfortunately, I only got so far before I hit a brick wall, but on the way there I found the smiley list in functions.php, too!
wow. that is a coincidence!
so you were looking for a way to make : ) (for example) turn into
That sounds like it might be tricky.
What was the brick wall you hit?
Pligg/SWCMS use Smarty templates. Once the comment has been assigned to a Smarty variable, there’s not much you can do with it. So, I tried to catch it before it was assigned to a Smarty, but HTML (i.e. IMG tag for smiley) is stripped from the comment at the moment it becomes a Smarty:
$smarty->assign(’comment_content’, save_text_to_html($this->content));
I tried every possible workaround, but couldn’t get anything to work.
Hmmm.
That would be a brick wall.
I don’t know much about Smarty but I was reading smarty.php.net and see that it is for completely separating template from function, so I understand what you are saying (probably).
Comment content is assigned to the $smarty variable in that code you posted. And you are saying that smarty strips anything that isn’t text.
I’m not sure how smileys work in wordpress either and I don’t know enough about how pligg works so really I am no help.
But when you say IMG tag you are talking about <img src=>, right? That confuses me. In a comment, users don’t enter an img tag to post smileys, they just type like this : )
I don’t know how smileys work in wordpress but I would imagine (pure ignorant imagination) that it processes the text, : ) , somehow, matches it to the array of smileys in functions.php, and displays (instead of the text) the image file associated with that : ) in the array.
But probably I am just missing point because I have little idea what I am talking about anyway
You’re exactly right, and I’ll keep trying until I find a way to do this.
Quick update. I got it to work and finished the module. SWCMS users can get it here.
It’s working on my development site, but JapanSoc’ers won’t see it until I upgrade the live site. That won’t happen until the new “confirm email on registration” module is finished, which hopefully won’t be much longer.
Nice work!
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