Emoticons

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Emoticons or "emotes" are the little smiley icons displayed in text, certain keystrokes will be converted into the image such as :) becomes a smile icon and the associated image is displayed instead of the plain text characters.

With emoticons activated, standard smiley text strings will be replaced by their respective emoticon images throughout the content in your site.

Emote activation

To enable emotes on your site navigate to your e107 Admin Area, choose the Emote activation tab, check the box:

• Activate emoticons?

Installed packs

In the next tab along, Installed Packs, you will see a list of the emote packs which are installed. This will display the default emote pack issued with a new e107 system, plus those you have installed.

• Name - the name of the emote pack
• Emotes - sample images
• Status - Shows which pack is active, if any.
• Options for the system administrator.
  • Edit / configure this pack
  • Generate XML

Edit / configure this pack

This page displays the total number of image files, a list of the images.

• Image Displayed
• Name of the source file
• Emote Codes ( separate multiple entries with spaces )
  • This is the text user can enter to display the emote.

You can Save Configuration or Cancel the changes using the appropriate buttons.

Generate XML

If you've manually created or modified the definitions, you can create an XML file for import elsewhere.

Ensure the directory e107_images/emotes/default/ is writeable.

More

See :Category:Emoticons for all documentation relating to the e107 Emoticons System.

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