Emoticons

[mylegalhouse]

I am a new Greymatter user, having recently discovered it...then finding that the official forums are closed, then finding your forum. Many thanks for posting it.

I have done a standard installation and all seems to work well, with one exception:

I can't get the emoticons feature to disappear. I have emoticons disabled, but they are always available in comments. At one point, after having done nothing out of the ordinary in the config (other than to disable emoticons), I found that the tables containing the emoticon images (on the comments page) was gone, but the word "Smilies" was still there.

I was planning on working to get rid of that as well, but after a subsequent New Entry, the emoticon table is once again being displayed.

If someone can simplify this for me, I'd appreciate that very much.

[mylegalhouse]

Ok, either the board isn't active enough yet, or nobody has an explanation for this.

After some testing, I think it should be moved to the bug report thread anyway.

I removed all the code in the {{smartemoticonscode}} template and there was no difference whatever. A quick look at templates.cgi shows that the {{smartemoticonscode}} template code is unchanged. The timestamp on the file, however, did reflect the fact that it was modified. Changes I made to some other templates were registered in templates.cgi and were reflected in the main log and/or comments pages.

This is maddening. I hate silly emoticons and they must go!

[coldstone]

Hmm, that is an odd issue. I will take a look at that and see if I get the same behavior.

I was wondering if you could clarify if you still saw the emoticon table, or if emoticons still showed up when entered into a comment? Did you remove the emoticons from the comment entry template?

Thanks for pointing this out. One note though, I do not believe you can remove the emoticon table from the Admin page when making a new entry/post (not sure about that though).

[mylegalhouse]

Ok, to clarify a bit - The emoticons for posting work as intended. Set them on and they're there - turn them off, and they're gone.

For comments - yes I still saw the emoticons table, whether the setting was on or off. I don't know what you mean by comment entry template...I gave up and deleted the files from my server, so I can't look at the page any longer. But I removed code from the smartemoticonscode template and there was no difference in the behavior of the table, nor would it ever go away; clicking on an emoticon still put the corresponding text equivalent into the comments box. At no time did I see any emoticons in the posted comments, only the text equivalents.

Dabbling with WordPress now...don't like being restricted to its 'themes', though...

[coldstone]

Well, if you ever come back, in the Template section you can modify the section of page that displays the comment box, submit buttons, etc. The emoticons are actually hardcoded into that temple (If you goto Modify Template > Comment Entry Template you should see it).

[mylegalhouse]

Thank you coldstone, I may actually take a second look. WordPress is fairly restrictive and I haven't committed to it. Thanks for replying.

[mylegalhouse]

Thanks for you help coldstone. I was able to edit the {{entrycommentsform}} template. That did the trick.

Now, the reason I chose Greymatter in the first place is that I believe it's configurable enough, due to the variables contained in the code, to plant those variables onto an existing html document rather than using the supplied index.html as one's "homepage".

Am I correct in this assumption? I'll be experimenting with it, but would appreciate any feedback on this and/or any tips in doing so.

In other words, I'm thinking that I can pipe out my entries, and user comments, onto any page.

How will Greymatter handle this? In my first experiment, done a week or two ago, Greymatter overwrote my own 'index.html'. Obviously that's not what I need heh heh.

Thank you

[coldstone]

Sounds like what might work for you is the 'connected files' in the GreyMatter preferences. Bascially, you can put your tags on a page and then enter the filename into the connected files box and it will update that file with new information when you rebuild.

Note that you can't update the connected file directly anymore. The real file with be located under your 'archives' folder (which you could then update). I was wondering what you are trying to do with the index.html? I might be able to suggest a better solution then.

[mylegalhouse]

Ok, I figured I could do that with connected files, thank you. I'll give it a swing.

All I'm trying to do is post entries on an already existing page on my site, instead of on Greymatter's main page. I realize that the Greymatter page will be updated regardless, but I want my readers to access my page, as opposed to GM's.

I will experiment with a test file; put tags in it, attach and update it and see how she flies.

[coldstone]

Ok, yeah, if you want, you could change the GM generated file (typically index.html) to some other file that people are unlikely to stumble across.