on phpBB3, there was a page where one could see all the smileys available on the site. It was available by clicking on "more." For example: http://www.phpbb.com/community/posting.php?mode=smilies

What I need is a static page similar to that one, which shows all the smileys available and has their title text and their smiley code as well. Similar to this:

<img src="smiley.jpg" title="Smiley" alt=":)" />

I would create it through a view but the necessary fields are not available.

So, could this module be made to either have it's own accessible page like the above source, or have it's fields accessible from the views module?

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nicholas.alipaz’s picture

nicholas.alipaz commented

no one has any input on this?

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vm commented

Seems to me this would be easy enough by creating the page on your own using CCK fields, which would make them available to views.module.

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nicholas.alipaz commented

I am not exactly sure what you are describing... I use CCK and Views, but I don't understand what you are trying to say.

The issue I found was that the smileys and their corresponding codes are not available to Views.module. I mean I guess I could create a new Content Type where I could have two text fields (with unlimited values), one for the image's path and the other for the smiley code. Then just use either Views or computed fields to output the data the way I want it. However, this would require updates of that page everytime a new smiley is added to the site.

What I want is a way to have this page, but make it populate dynamically from whatever is setup on the admin panel. I mean, the page where you can disable/enable smileys and such is actually similar to what I am after, but it isn't available to the public.

Maybe computed fields can be used to grab the image paths and smiley code from the database, format them then spit them out. I am not sure, I will have to look at whether computed fields has access to the smileys and such.

Let me know if you have a better solution.

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Gurpartap Singh commented

Does the filter/tips page work for you(viz for exactly your need)? If not, you can use the same function for the output on a dedicated page.

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nicholas.alipaz commented

Thanks, yes this did fix my issue. I used that page to accomplish what I needed.

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nicholas.alipaz commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)