Fixed edit post validate request issue

Added Tag Description (Currently unused)
Started to add emoticons to posts, still testing and not added all.

Author: YodasMyDad

.nuget/NuGet.Config

@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@
 <configuration>
   <solution>
     <add key="disableSourceControlIntegration" value="true" />
+	<add key="repositoryPath" value="..\packages" />
   </solution>
 </configuration>

MVCForum.Core/DomainModel/Entities/TopicTag.cs

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ public TopicTag()
         public Guid Id { get; set; }
         public string Tag { get; set; }
         public string Slug { get; set; }
+        public string Description { get; set; }
 
         public string NiceUrl
         {

MVCForum.Data/Mapping/TopicTagMapping.cs

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ public TopicTagMapping()
             HasKey(x => x.Id);
             Property(x => x.Id).IsRequired();
             Property(x => x.Tag).IsRequired().HasMaxLength(100);
+            Property(x => x.Description).IsOptional();
             Property(x => x.Slug).IsRequired().HasMaxLength(100).HasColumnAnnotation("Index",
                                     new IndexAnnotation(new IndexAttribute("IX_Tag_Slug", 1) { IsUnique = true }));
         }

MVCForum.Services/PostService.cs

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ private MembershipRole UsersRole(MembershipUser user)
         public Post SanitizePost(Post post)
         {
             post.PostContent = StringUtils.GetSafeHtml(post.PostContent);
+            post.PostContent = EmoticonUtils.Emotify(post.PostContent);
             return post;
         }
 

MVCForum.Utilities/EmoticonUtils.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Web;
+
+namespace MVCForum.Utilities
+{
+    public static class EmoticonUtils
+    {        
+        public static Hashtable GetEmoticonHashTable()
+        {
+            var emoticons = new Hashtable(100)
+            {
+                {":)", "facebook-smiley-face-for-comments.png"},
+                {":D", "big-smile-emoticon-for-facebook.png"},
+                {":(", "facebook-frown-emoticon.png"},
+                {":'(", "facebook-cry-emoticon-crying-symbol.png"},
+                {":P", "facebook-tongue-out-emoticon.png"},
+                {"O:)", "angel-emoticon.png"},
+                {"3:)", "devil-emoticon.png"},
+            };
+            
+            return emoticons;
+        }
+
+        public static string Emotify(string inputText)
+        {
+            var emoticonFolder = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~/content/images/emoticons/");
+            var emoticons = GetEmoticonHashTable();
+
+            var sb = new StringBuilder(inputText.Length);
+
+            for (var i = 0; i < inputText.Length; i++)
+            {
+                var strEmote = string.Empty;
+                foreach (string emote in emoticons.Keys)
+                {
+                    if (inputText.Length - i >= emote.Length && emote.Equals(inputText.Substring(i, emote.Length), StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
+                    {
+                        strEmote = emote;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (strEmote.Length != 0)
+                {
+                    sb.AppendFormat("<img src=\"{0}{1}\" alt=\"\" class=\"emoticon\" />", emoticonFolder, emoticons[strEmote]);
+                    i += strEmote.Length - 1;
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    sb.Append(inputText[i]);
+                }
+            }
+            return sb.ToString();
+        }
+    }
+}

MVCForum.Utilities/MVCForum.Utilities.csproj

@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@
     <Compile Include="CensorUtils.cs" />
     <Compile Include="ConfigUtils.cs" />
     <Compile Include="DateUtils.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="EmoticonUtils.cs" />
     <Compile Include="EnumUtils.cs" />
     <Compile Include="ExtensionMethods.cs" />
     <Compile Include="GuidComb.cs" />

MVCForum.Utilities/StringUtils.cs

@@ -832,6 +832,8 @@ public static HttpWebResponse DownloadWebPage(string url)
         /// <returns></returns>
         public static string CreateUrl(string strInput, string replaceWith)
         {
+            // Doing this to stop the urls having amp from &amp;
+            strInput = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(strInput);
             // Doing this to stop the urls getting encoded
             var url = RemoveAccents(strInput);
             return StripNonAlphaNumeric(url, replaceWith).ToLower();

MVCForum.Website/Areas/Admin/Views/Permissions/EditPermissions.cshtml

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
         <p>If you tick this, users will not be able to access or see the Category - Also they won't be able to see any posts, topics or tags that were created in it either (Private Categories).</p>
         <hr/>
         <h6>Edit Members</h6>
-        <p>If you tick this, users will not be able to edit other users profiles and also ban them from the forum.</p>
+        <p>If you tick this, users will be able to edit other users profiles and also ban them from the forum.</p>
     </div>
 </div>
 

MVCForum.Website/Content/Images/emoticons/angel-emoticon.png

@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ private void NotifyNewTopics(Topic topic, IUnitOfWork unitOfWork)
                         var sb = new StringBuilder();
                         sb.AppendFormat("<p>{0}</p>", string.Format(LocalizationService.GetResourceString("Post.Notification.NewPosts"), topic.Name));
                         sb.Append(AppHelpers.ConvertPostContent(topic.LastPost.PostContent));
-                        sb.AppendFormat("<p>{0}</p>", string.Concat(SettingsService.GetSettings().ForumUrl.TrimEnd('/'), topic.NiceUrl));
+                        sb.AppendFormat("<p><a href=\"{0}\">{0}</a></p>", string.Concat(SettingsService.GetSettings().ForumUrl.TrimEnd('/'), topic.NiceUrl));
 
                         // create the emails only to people who haven't had notifications disabled
                         var emails = usersToNotify.Where(x => x.DisableEmailNotifications != true && !x.IsLockedOut).Select(user => new Email