I’ve disabled Smileys in the Emoticon general prefs hoping that would remove the “Smileys” option from the Publsih screen.

Anyway to remove this “Smileys” text from the Publish page?

In trying to make EE a viable option to clients not having a link for “Smileys” on the page they go to to edit their web site content would go a long way in helping pass EE off as a business-class CMS.

You can use extensions to rewrite the publish page- but in this case, I think I’d do a simple hack.  In system/cp/cp.publish.php, around line 4520 you’ll see the link defined:

Well- that second $smileys isn’t there- but if you add it in, the link would no longer appear.

Well, that’ll do it. I searched on “smiley” in BBEdit looking for such a line, but it didn’t turn up anything… Who knows, maybe I had case-sensitivity on and used a capital “s”. Regardless, thanks!

Good little hack. . .  although, I’m not a fan of hacks as is one more thing to do each time we update builds or versions. Maybe this will become a radio button option some day.

Is there an extension for this now…or a built-in option to disable them? I need to pass off a couple sites as having a business-class CMS as well.

I don’t want to hack *anything*. That just makes upgrading that much more of a pain.

So….anyone discovered a better way to do this rather than hacking it?

Thanks

I’ve written an extension now (for something else...), so I’ve gotten my feet wet. I might try my hand at this to see if I can get it to work. Or disappear, as the case may be.

I have an extension 99% written - it works if I hardcode an id into a string. If someone can offer a little assistance with one line, then I can release this into the wild.

I need a regular expression that will find any number (because each textarea has a unique ID, it appears). I think I need to do a preg_replace. Let’s say I’m looking for this:

That number change depending on your custom fields, etc. I need a line that looks for that, but replaces that ‘3’ (or ‘2’ or whatever it happens to be) with a regexp that says “any number”. I tried something like this:

but I couldn’t seem to get it working this morning, and I have some paying work to get to.

I’m very close, I think! If anyone can help straighten out this line, then I think it might be good to go:

OK, I wrote an extension that I think will at least hide the “Smileys” link on the Publish screen: Hide Smileys Link in Control Panel. If you have any issues, leave a note in that thread!

Nice work on the extension, but isn’t this a bug? Disabling the functionality should also hide the link.

I don’t know that it’s a bug. I wish there were an option to hide the Smileys link when you choose whether or not to allow emoticons. The thing is - I’m only hiding the link, but if you look at the code of the page, all the Smileys code is still there.

There may be a reason that EllisLab chose to keep the Smileys link here, though. I’m not sure. I’m fairly close to beefing this extension up so you can remove Spelling and/or Glossary if you want, too. It would be a LOT easier if these links had classes, but they don’t so I’m trying to do this with regular expressions…which aren’t treating me very nicely.

At least you can remove Smileys for now!

I have tried both Robin’s hack and mdesign’s extension but they both have the same problem.
The page still tries to load all the smiley image files and showing on the server error log as missing files (I have deleted the images on my server).

I view smileys with the same disdain as clip art, they have no place on a corporate / serious website and it would be good if EE can offer a proper disable option.