Wikipedia talk:Emoticons

Template not working as specified

re Template:Smiley2
a. {{=2|4}}
b. {{=2|5}}
c. {{=2|shocked}}'4'
d. {{=2|confused}}'5'

According to the page, emoticons a & c or b & d should the same. However a & b are swapped, c & d are 'correct'.
Seems the shocked/confused word 'switches' are working, but the number 'switches' 4 and 5 only are swapped.

1. 1
   
2. 2
   
3. 3
   
4. {{=2|4}}N
   
5. {{=2|5}}N
   
6. 6
   
7. 7
   
8. 8

1. smile
   
2. cute
   
3. sad
   
4. {{=2|shocked}}Y
   
5. {{=2|confused}}Y
   
6. tongue
   
7. rude
   
8. facepalm
   

All others seem OK! - 220 of ^Borg 06:40, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Oops! I have now changed the documentation to reflect what the template actually produces:

• 4, confused --> and
• 5, shocked --> and

Thanks for pointing this out! - benzband (talk) 18:39, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

No worries. I even had a look at the template code and though I have never programmed like this it seems 'obviously' correct:

|4|confused=Confused-tpvgames.gif|20px

|5|shocked=Shocked-tpvgames.gif|20px

i.e.. 4 or confused=Confused ... gif, 5 or shocked=Shocked ... gif.   What language is this by the way, HTML?
(ps I borrowed <span style="color: green"><span style="color: green"> from your sig to make the code green. Other things I tried didn't work!

Didn't think it may have been the documentation that was in error.

Just FYI , the error seems to have crept in here @ 12:01, 8 May 2012. '4' was once the 'confused' № in the Docs, but got changed to 5.

I'm wondering how many people were confused , when they meant to be surprised . (& vice versa!). 220 of ^Borg 14:48, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Ah right. The language is wiki markup (the template uses a #switch: function which I imitated from the original {{smiley}} template). And yeah I'm hoping not too many people got the wrong face showing up! ツ benzband (talk) 19:29, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) It's not HTML: HTML has no programmable constructs such as decision making. It's Wiki markup, although in a form that is normally only used in templates - the {{#switch:}} parser function. If we look at the source of {{smiley2}} and ignore the two instances of {{{|safesubst:}}} also everything inside <noinclude>...</noinclude>, what's left is:

[[File:{{#switch:{{lc:{{{1|}}}}}
|2|cute=Smile-tpvgames.gif{{!}}20px
|3|sad=Sad-tpvgames.gif{{!}}20px
|4|confused=Confused-tpvgames.gif{{!}}20px
|5|shocked=Shocked-tpvgames.gif{{!}}20px
|6|tongue|crazy=Misc-tpvgames.gif{{!}}20px
|7|rude|raspberry=Ras.gif{{!}}20px
|8|doh|facepalm=Smiley emoticons doh.gif{{!}}25px
|1|smile|#default=Smile.gif{{!}}20px}}|link=]]

The {{#switch:}} parser function is very like the case statement in programming languages such as Pascal or the switch statement in C or JavaScript. The value to be tested (in this case {{lc:{{{1|}}}}} which is the first positional parameter to the template, lowercased) goes after the switch: and before the first pipe. Each pipe introduces a value to test against; when a match is found, the value after the very next = sign is returned and the switch: terminates. If there is no match, the value after #default= is returned. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:39, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Ah, thanks benzband and Redrose64. I have used BASIC, Assembler, machine code and did a course in 'C' (but haven't put it to much use), so I can see what you are getting at.

• This simple matter of fixing a document error has taken up way too much of everyone's time, thought it has also been useful to me in term of learning a few new templates, 'magic words'(<span style>), a bit of how templates operate etc. (even a few new smilies! ) Thanks again, regards--220 of ^Borg 03:30, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Flower(s)

There is none. -- Mr. Prophet (talk) 07:26, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Tongue.png

Tongue.png Tongue.png Tongue.png Tongue.png Tongue.png Tongue.png Tongue.png Tongue.png Tongue.png — Preceding unsigned comment added by Handatoe (talk • contribs) 11:37, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

No Need For Two (2) 'See also' Subsections

No Need For Two (2) 'See also' Subsections! They even slightly repeat by educating about { { smiley } } so it seems there's an overlap of content too. Ok if I merge this section, or does someone want to take the helm on that? Thanks. -From Peter {a.k.a. Vid2vid (talk | contribs)} 20:37, 27 November 2022 (UTC)