Custom Smilie Creator installed

[Joeychgo]

Custom Smilie Creator (http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/smilecreator.php)

http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/smilecreator.php?text=%20vBulletin%20FAQ%20&typ=1&col=0,0,0&shcol=255,255,255&form_submit=1

INSTRUCTIONS: To create your own custom smilie first choose which smilie face you want to use. Enter what you want your smilie's sign to say by entering a message. Then choose what color you want the text wording of your message to be and also what color you want the sign's background to be. Then press the button at the bottom of the screen and your smilie will be created!

SAVING YOUR SMILIE: With your right mouse button click on the new smilie and choose the "Save Picture As..." option if you're using Microsoft Internet Explorer or the "Save Image As..." option if you're using Mozilla. Save the image as your_smilie_name.png.

I am going to have a few more good smiles made for us soon so the selection should grow.

Enjoy!

[Brandon Sheley]

all I can say is 8

[Peggy]

anyone for a kiss?

[Biggles LLB]

Thanks, Peggy

You have become my font of all knowledge. Kind and so generous. Angel! :D

[Peggy]

Thanks, Peggy

You have become my font of all knowledge. Kind and so generous. Angel! :D

flattery will get you..... everywhere... ;)

[Biggles LLB]

There you go again .... 'everywhere'? :o

[Peggy]

*wink*

[mikelbeck]

Where can I get that from? I stumbled across it yesterday and didn't bookmark it. :-(

[Peggy]

I was thinking about that too

[Noppid]

Where can I get that from? I stumbled across it yesterday and didn't bookmark it. :-(

It's a rewite of the one at .org. But that code is not code I would use. Hence our own version. And since we modded someone elses code, we can't distrubute it.

[Peggy]

ahha ok

[spongebob]

im extremely new to all this so forgive me, but after i save it, how do i add it to my smilies on my site?

and is it possible to add all those smilies but leave the it up to the member of my site to create the custom smilie and post it?

[Noppid]

im extremely new to all this so forgive me, but after i save it, how do i add it to my smilies on my site?

and is it possible to add all those smilies but leave the it up to the member of my site to create the custom smilie and post it?

You add them via the smilie manager in the vB ACP.

[spongebob]

I couldn't upload the smilie because it's not a .gif.

How do i change it. Thanks.

[Neal]

Aww thanks.....

(I hope your going to release this or make your own, I know my members would love this)

[Shelley]

Very handy. Personally, I would never use a smiley generator but they are a godsend to the majority of people. Nice submission.

[Elsie]

I couldn't upload the smilie because it's not a .gif.

How do i change it. Thanks.

if you have psp (or similar) open the file in that prgramme, then just go straight to save as, and select the file type from the drop down menu.

[FLMom]

I love this! Thanks :D

[KW802]

It's a rewite of the one at .org. But that code is not code I would use. Hence our own version. And since we modded someone elses code, we can't distrubute it.So what's different about it?

EDIT: Besides just changing the PHP code to be a stand-alone vB page as opposed to a CMPS module.

[Noppid]

So what's different about it?

EDIT: Besides just changing the PHP code to be a stand-alone vB page as opposed to a CMPS module.

Security fixes, there are huge holes in the original. And a few things I'm sure I've forgotten.

Nothing important. :p

[KW802]

Security fixes, there are huge holes in the original. And a few things I'm sure I've forgotten.

Nothing important. :pIf there are security fixes then feel free to post in my thread over at vB.org with the code in question or PM me and I'll update the version over there. I did that a long time ago as a self-taught thing and haven't looked at the code in some time.

[Shelley]

If there are security fixes then feel free to post in my thread over at vB.org with the code in question or PM me and I'll update the version over there. I did that a long time ago as a self-taught thing and haven't looked at the code in some time.

Question for you KW802. I've noticed with smiley generators that the smilies and graphics (signs in this case) don't contain anti-aliasing. My question to you is, Could emoticons (that contain anti-aliasing) still be implemented into a generator without quality loss (say the curved edges being jaggy) when a user selects a background colour?

[KW802]

My first response would be "I don't see why not..." but as always I may be wrong. I have a different version of the script (a different version as opposed to the one posted on vB.org) that I use for testing... I'll see about adding a quickie background color selector instead of defaulting to transparent and go from there.

[Shelley]

My first response would be "I don't see why not..." but as always I may be wrong. I have a different version of the script (a different version as opposed to the one posted on vB.org) that I use for testing... I'll see about adding a quickie background color selector instead of defaulting to transparent and go from there.

I think you may experience problems with loss of quality because saving the image (from when it's firstly created) the matte colour used by the creator is embedded into the image thus the edging will always have that background matte colour, it wouldn't matter what background colour (picked from the background selector) the embedded matte coloured background will always be there.

Trouble with using full transperancy whilst using .gif images is (like I said) the edges will appear jaggy which enduces that quality loss I was speaking about. Heck, I could be wrong here but I think my assumption is correct.

I think the only solution is using .png images. The format supports true transparency and I think this would work in conjunction with the background colour selector. The pros are you get high quality smooth edged images. However, because of the format, animation wouldn't be possible.

Just a food for thought. Smilie generators have always interested me and seeing as you originally created the generator I thought I would throw a few questions and a possible solution in case tinkering around didn't produce anything positive.

[KW802]

The smilie creator is using PNG images. ;) (Well, at least the original version)

I threw the background color in real fast... play here (http://www.coolscifi.com/index.php?pg=smilie_creator_v3). If you happen to have an image that's 29px high for me to play with I'll toss it up there for testing.


EDIT: I looked at some code in the V3 version versus the older versions... turns out I did some security fixes many moons ago and threw some other toys in there.

[Shelley]

Nice one.

I just think anti-aliasing implemented into smiley generators would look so much nicer. Would also make my modifications redundant but hey, I'm lazy.

Here's a test smiley for you to upload. http://i5.tinypic.com/15ysm8g.png

[KW802]

{Stupid MS IE6 displaying PNG transparency's totally goofy.....}

OK, I threw the smiley up there. I gave the wrong dimensions.... for testing do you have anything that is about 29px high by 22px wide? Right now the code is going go come down 4px from the top and use the top 4px as the top of the sign.

I'm going to have to think about the code a bit for dealing with base smilies that are using a transparent background though. I love a good challenge.... :D

[Shelley]

{Stupid MS IE6 displaying PNG transparency's totally goofy.....}

OK, I threw the smiley up there. I gave the wrong dimensions.... for testing do you have anything that is about 29px high by 22px wide? Right now the code is going go come down 4px from the top and use the top 4px as the top of the sign.

I'm going to have to think about the code a bit for dealing with base smilies that are using a transparent background though. I love a good challenge.... :D

IE6 is one of the major issues I felt that caused the use of .png images to be used at a minimum. Once ie7 has established itself I can certainly see these smiliey generators being the in thing. Not to mention that it will make my job 100 times easier as well as people that use the generators.

Here's another image. It originally started life as a 20px by 20 px but I just resized the canvas to the required specifications so it should display without any issues.

Challenges are good. I can see generators playing a big part in what I am aiming to do (I guess andrew will be running when I ask to code one for me) :)

Here's that image KW802 :) >> http://i4.tinypic.com/15yu9gz.png

[Noppid]

If there are security fixes then feel free to post in my thread over at vB.org with the code in question or PM me and I'll update the version over there. I did that a long time ago as a self-taught thing and haven't looked at the code in some time.

I didn't get it there, it was given to me to work with. I'm not releasing anything over there myself, don't have the time.

It's been months since I touched that code, I have no idea what I changed by looking at it. But, I tweak most all the code I get in most cases. At the time I remembered this was not my code and when asked if I would release this I said no due to that. Now it's a matter of time. I don't even have a copy of the templates saved in any case either.

I didn't mean to put down your work, was just making a point. If ya ever need a php tip, holler. I'm recoding old work. I can't believe I wrote it. So it goes both ways. :p

Oh and Shelly, this code uses the PHP GD library to manipuate the images and plug in the text. You can find out more here... http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.gd-info.php

[Shelley]

Dunno if you noticed KW802 but when you set a different background colour other than transparent it leaves a white coloured square on the canvas area. I think this is the issues I thought would happen. If this could be resolved I think quality images within generators could be increased. I don't even want to look at the effect in IE. I would imagine it looks even worse.

I think this is an issue worth resolving. The outcome could be a beneficial one to members in the end.

Thanks for taking the time out to testing this KW802. It's appreciated.

[KW802]

Shelley: yeah... that's my brain tease right now. What's happening is that when the 'old' smiley, the test one that is a transparent png, is copied into the 'new' smiley that is being created it is retaining the transparency. I've been reading up on the various transparency related commands last night & this morning. There's a solution out there, I just need to find it.

Noppid: I didn't take it as a personal affront... I'm a bit too thick skinned to let somebodys opinion of me rattle my cage and I'm the first to admit that my PHP kung fu needs improving yet. ;) I was just rattled that if a security issue was out there that nobody brought to my attention when it was first discovered. It's a moot point though because the V3 version has some security fixes in it.

[chitlar]

Custom Smilie Creator (http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/smilecreator.php)

http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/smilecreator.php?text=%20vBulletin%20FAQ%20&typ=1&col=0,0,0&shcol=255,255,255&form_submit=1

INSTRUCTIONS: To create your own custom smilie first choose which smilie face you want to use. Enter what you want your smilie's sign to say by entering a message. Then choose what color you want the text wording of your message to be and also what color you want the sign's background to be. Then press the button at the bottom of the screen and your smilie will be created!

SAVING YOUR SMILIE: With your right mouse button click on the new smilie and choose the "Save Picture As..." option if you're using Microsoft Internet Explorer or the "Save Image As..." option if you're using Mozilla. Save the image as your_smilie_name.png.

I am going to have a few more good smiles made for us soon so the selection should grow.

Enjoy!
nice but a little i want big smile

[Noppid]

Noppid: I didn't take it as a personal affront... I'm a bit too thick skinned to let somebodys opinion of me rattle my cage and I'm the first to admit that my PHP kung fu needs improving yet. ;) I was just rattled that if a security issue was out there that nobody brought to my attention when it was first discovered. It's a moot point though because the V3 version has some security fixes in it.

It's been a while. But, in any event, if you want this code, holler.

[kostas1974]

thanx a lot team!!!!

[abo zaher]

thanks :)