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-/* Emoticons Plugin
- * This is a chat-plugin for an Emoticons system on PS
- * You will need a line in parser to actually  parse 
- * this so that it works.  Also, you will need need to 
- * add a few lines to the PM command.
- * Credits: panpawn
- *
- * Current Features:
- * - Emoticon Moderated chat based on rank (for chat rooms)
- * - Command based adding and removing of emoticons
- * - Saves the emote moderated chat status in each chat room on restart
- * - Checks if a user is shadowbanned and reacts accordingly
- * - Does not require server-side CSS (./config/custom.css) elements for usernames
- * - Checks the number of chat emoticons in one message and won't parse if it is more than Gold.emoticons.maxChatEmotes
- * - Administrators can toggle how many emoticons users can do in their messages with a command
- * - Now parses for PS formats such as bold, italics, and strikethrough
- * - PMs emoticons
- *
- * TODO:
- * - Links parsing in emoticon messages?
- * - Limit to number of PMs emoticons in one message...?
- */
-
-var fs = require('fs');
-var serialize = require('node-serialize');
-var emotes = {};
-var style = "background:none;border:0;padding:0 5px 0 0;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;cursor:pointer";
-
-if (typeof Gold === 'undefined') global.Gold = {};
-
-Gold.emoticons = {
-	maxChatEmotes: 4, //the default maximum number of emoticons in one chat message that gets parsed
-	adminBypassMaxChatEmotes: true, //can administrators use as many emoticons as they wish?
-	chatEmotes: {},
-	processEmoticons: function(text) {
-		var patterns = [],
-		metachars = /[[\]{}()*+?.\\|^$\-,&#\s]/g,
-		self = this;
-		for (var i in this.chatEmotes) {
-			if (this.chatEmotes.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
-				patterns.push('(' + i.replace(metachars, "\\$&") + ')');
-			}
-		}
-		return text.replace(new RegExp(patterns.join('|'), 'g'), function(match) {
-			return typeof self.chatEmotes[match] != 'undefined' ?
-				'<img src="' + self.chatEmotes[match] + '" title="' + match + '"/>' :
-				match;
-		});
-	},
-	checkEmoteModchat: function(user, room) {
-		var rank = (user.group !== ' ' ? user.group : (room.auth ? room.auth[user.userid] : user.group));
-		switch (room.emoteModChat) {
-			case undefined:
-			case false:
-				return true;
-				break;
-			case 'ac':
-			case 'autoconfirmed':
-				return (user.autoconfirmed ? true : false);
-				break;
-			default:
-				groups = Config.groupsranking;
-				var i = groups.indexOf(rank); // rank # of user
-				var u = groups.indexOf(room.emoteModChat); // rank # of emote modchat
-				if (i >= u) return true;
-		}
-		return false;
-	},
-	processChatData: function(user, room, connection, message) {
-		var match = false;
-		var parsed_message = this.processEmoticons(message);
-		for (var i in this.chatEmotes) {
-			if (~message.indexOf(i)) {
-				if ((parsed_message.match(/<img/g) || []).length <= this.maxChatEmotes || (this.adminBypassMaxChatEmotes && user.group === '~')) {
-					match = true;
-				} else {
-					match = false;
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		switch (Users.ShadowBan.checkBanned(user) && match) {
-			case true:
-				origmsg = message;
-				message = Tools.escapeHTML(message);
-				message = this.processEmoticons(message);
-				user.sendTo(room, '|html|' + 
-					user.getIdentity(room).substr(0,1) + '<button style="' + style + '" name="parseCommand" value="/user ' +
-					user.name + '">' + '<b><font color="' + Gold.hashColor(user.userid) + '">' + Tools.escapeHTML(user.name) + ':</font></b></button> ' + message + '</div>'
-				);
-				room.update();
-				Users.ShadowBan.addMessage(user, "To " + room, origmsg);
-				break;
-			case false:
-				if (!this.checkEmoteModchat(user, room)) {
-					kitty = message = this.processEmoticons(message);
-					var message = Tools.escapeHTML(kitty);
-					return (message);
-					return;
-				} else if (this.checkEmoteModchat(user, room)) {
-					if (!match || message.charAt(0) === '!') return true;
-					message = Tools.escapeHTML(message);
-					message = this.processEmoticons(message);
-
-					//PS formatting
-					message = message.replace(/\_\_([^< ](?:[^<]*?[^< ])?)\_\_(?![^<]*?<\/a)/g, '<i>$1</i>'); //italics
-					message = message.replace(/\*\*([^< ](?:[^<]*?[^< ])?)\*\*/g, '<b>$1</b>'); //bold
-					message = message.replace(/\~\~([^< ](?:[^<]*?[^< ])?)\~\~/g, '<strike>$1</strike>'); //strikethrough
-
-					if (user.hiding) {
-						room.addRaw(' <button style="' + style + '" name="parseCommand" value="/user ' +
-						user.name + '">' + '<b><font color="' + Gold.hashColor(user.userid) + '">' + Tools.escapeHTML(user.name) + ':</font></b></button> ' + message + '</div>');
-						room.update();
-					}
-					room.addRaw(user.getIdentity(room).substr(0,1) + '<button style="' + style + '" name="parseCommand" value="/user ' +
-					user.name + '">' + '<b><font color="' + Gold.hashColor(user.userid) + '">' + Tools.escapeHTML(user.name) + ':</font></b></button> ' + message + '</div>');
-					room.update();
-					room.messageCount++;
-					return false;
-				}
-				break;
-		}
-	},
-	processPMsParsing: function (message) {
-		emoteRegex = [];
-		for (var emote in this.chatEmotes) {
-			emoteRegex.push(emote);
-		}
-		emoteRegex = new RegExp('(' + emoteRegex.join('|') + ')', 'g');
-		self = this;
-		if (emoteRegex.test(message)) {
-			message = message.replace(emoteRegex, function (match) {
-				return '<img src=' + self.chatEmotes[match] + ' title=' + match + '>';
-			});
-			return message;
-		}
-		return false;
-	}
-};
-
-
-// commands
-
-function loadEmotes() {
-	try {
-		emotes = serialize.unserialize(fs.readFileSync('config/emotes.json', 'utf8'));
-		Object.merge(Gold.emoticons.chatEmotes, emotes);
-	} catch (e) {}
-}
-setTimeout(function(){loadEmotes();},1000);
-
-function saveEmotes() {
-	try {
-		fs.writeFileSync('config/emotes.json',serialize.serialize(emotes));
-		Object.merge(Gold.emoticons.chatEmotes, emotes);
-	} catch (e) {}
-}
-
-exports.commands = {
-	emotes: 'ezemote',
-	temotes: 'ezemote',
-	temote: 'ezemote',
-	emote: 'ezemote',
-	ec: 'ezemote',
-	ezemote: function (target, room, user) {
-		if (!target) target = "help";
-		var parts = target.split(',');
-		for (var u in parts) parts[u] = parts[u].trim();
-
-		try {
-			switch (toId(parts[0])) {
-
-				case 'add':
-					if (!this.can('pban')) return this.errorReply("Access denied.");
-					if (!this.canTalk()) return this.errorReply("You cannot do this while unable to talk.");
-					if (!(parts[2] || parts[3])) return this.errorReply("Usage: /emote add, [emoticon], [link]");
-					var emoteName = parts[1];
-					if (Gold.emoticons.chatEmotes[emoteName]) return this.errorReply("ERROR - the emoticon: " + emoteName + " already exists.");
-					var link = parts.splice(2, parts.length).join(',');
-					var fileTypes = [".gif",".png",".jpg"];
-					if (!~fileTypes.indexOf(link.substr(-4))) return this.errorReply("ERROR: the emoticon you are trying to add must be a gif, png, or jpg.");
-					emotes[emoteName] = Gold.emoticons.chatEmotes[emoteName] = link;
-					saveEmotes();
-					this.sendReply("The emoticon " + emoteName + " has been added.");
-					this.logModCommand(user.name + " added the emoticon: " + emoteName);
-					Rooms.get('staff').add("The emoticon " + emoteName + " was added by " + Tools.escapeHTML(user.name) + ".");
-					Rooms.get('staff').update();
-					break;
-
-				case 'rem':
-				case 'remove':
-				case 'del':
-				case 'delete':
-					if (!this.can('pban')) return this.errorReply("Access denied.");
-					if (!this.canTalk()) return this.errorReply("You cannot do this while unable to talk.");
-					if (!parts[1]) return this.errorReply("/emote remove, [emoticon]");
-					emoteName = parts[1];
-					if (!Gold.emoticons.chatEmotes[emoteName]) return this.errorReply("ERROR - the emoticon: " + emoteName + " does not exist.");
-					delete Gold.emoticons.chatEmotes[emoteName];
-					delete emotes[emoteName];
-					saveEmotes();
-					this.sendReply("The emoticon " + emoteName + " has been removed.");
-					this.logModCommand(user.name + " removed the emoticon: " + emoteName);
-					Rooms.get('staff').add("The emoticon " + emoteName + " was removed by " + Tools.escapeHTML(user.name) + ".");
-					Rooms.get('staff').update();
-					break;
-
-				case 'list':
-					if (!this.canBroadcast()) return;
-					if (this.broadcasting) return this.errorReply("ERROR: this command is too spammy to broadcast.  Use / instead of ! to see it for yourself.");
-					var output = "<b>There's a total of " + Object.size(emotes) + " emoticons added with this command:</b><br />";
-					for (var e in emotes) {
-						output += e + "<br />";
-					}
-					this.sendReplyBox("<div class=\"infobox-limited\" target=\"_blank\">" + output + "</div>");
-					break;
-
-				case 'view':
-					if (!this.canBroadcast()) return;
-					var name = Object.keys(Gold.emoticons.chatEmotes);
-					emoticons = [];
-					var len = name.length;
-					while (len--) {
-						emoticons.push((Gold.emoticons.processEmoticons(name[(name.length - 1) - len]) + '&nbsp;' + name[(name.length - 1) - len]));
-					}
-					this.sendReplyBox("<div class=\"infobox-limited\" target=\"_blank\"><b><u>List of emoticons (" + Object.size(emotes) + "):</b></u> <br/><br/>" + emoticons.join(' ').toString() + "</div>");
-					break;
-
-				case 'max':
-				case 'maxemotes':
-					if (!this.can('hotpatch')) return false;
-					if (!parts[1]) return this.errorReply("Usage: /emote max, [max emotes per message].");
-					if (Number(parts[1]) < 1) return this.errorReply("Max emotes cannot be less than 1.");
-					if (isNaN(Number(parts[1]))) return this.errorReply("The max emotes must be a number.");
-					if (~String(parts[1]).indexOf('.')) return this.errorReply("Cannot contain a decimal.");
-					Gold.emoticons.maxChatEmotes = parts[1];
-					this.privateModCommand("(" + user.name + " has set the max emoticons per message to be " + parts[1] + ".)");
-					break;
-
-				case 'object':
-					if (!this.canBroadcast()) return;
-					if (this.broadcasting) return this.errorReply("ERROR: this command is too spammy to broadcast.  Use / instead of ! to see it for yourself.");
-					this.sendReplyBox("Gold.emoticons.chatEmotes = " + fs.readFileSync('config/emotes.json','utf8'));
-					break;
-
-				case 'modchat':
-					if (!parts[1]) parts[1] = "status";
-					switch (parts[1]) {
-						case 'set':
-							if (room.type === 'chat' && !this.can('ban', null, room) || room.type === 'battle' && !this.can('privateroom', null, room)) return this.errorReply("Access denied.");
-							if (!this.canTalk()) return this.errorReply("You cannot do this while unable to talk.");
-							if (room.isPersonal) return this.errorReply("You cannot set emoticon moderated chat in personal rooms.");
-							if (!parts[2]) return this.errorReply("Usage: /emote modchat, set, [rank] - Sets modchat for emoticons in the respected room.");
-							if (!Config.groups[parts[2]] && toId(parts[2]) !== 'autoconfirmed' && toId(parts[2]) !== 'ac' || parts[2] === '★') return this.errorReply("ERROR: " + parts[2] + " is not a defined group in Config or is not yet optimized for moderated emoticon chat at this time.");
-							if (room.emoteModChat === parts[2]) return this.errorReply("Emoticon modchat is already enabled in this room for the rank you're trying to set it to.");
-							room.emoteModChat = parts[2];
-							if (room.type === 'chat') room.chatRoomData.emoteModChat = room.emoteModChat;
-							Rooms.global.writeChatRoomData();
-							this.add("|raw|<div class=\"broadcast-red\"><b>Chat Emoticons Moderated Chat has been set!</b><br />To use emoticons in this room, you must be of rank <b>" + parts[2] + "</b> or higher.");
-							room.update();
-							this.privateModCommand("(" + user.name + " has set emoticon moderated chat for rank " + parts[2] + " and up.)");
-							break;
-						case 'off':
-						case 'disable':
-							if (room.type === 'chat' && !this.can('ban', null, room) || room.type === 'battle' && !this.can('privateroom', null, room)) return this.errorReply("Access denied.");
-							if (!this.canTalk()) return this.errorReply("You cannot do this while unable to talk.");
-							if (room.isPersonal) return this.errorReply("Emoticon moderated chat is enabled in personal rooms by default and cannot be changed.");
-							if (!room.emoteModChat) return this.errorReply("Emoticon modchat is already disabled in this room.");
-							room.emoteModChat = false;
-							if (room.type === 'chat') room.chatRoomData.emoteModChat = room.emoteModChat;
-							Rooms.global.writeChatRoomData();
-							this.add("|raw|<div class=\"broadcast-blue\"><b>Chat Emoticons Moderated Chat has been disabled!</b><br />Everyone in this room may use chat emoticons.");
-							room.update();
-							this.privateModCommand("(" + user.name + " has enabled chat emoticons for everyone in this room.)");
-							break;
-						default:
-						case 'status':
-							var status = (room.emoteModChat === undefined || !room.emoteModChat ? false : room.emoteModChat); 
-							return this.sendReply("Emoticon moderated chat is currently set to: " + status);
-							break;
-					}
-					break;
-
-				case 'reload':
-				case 'hotpatch':
-					if (!this.can('hotpatch')) return false;
-					loadEmotes();
-					this.privateModCommand("(" + user.name + " has reloaded all emoticons on the server.)");
-					break;
-
-				case 'help':
-				default:
-					if (!this.canBroadcast()) return;
-					this.sendReplyBox(
-						"<table bgcolor=\"#ADD8E6\" width=\"100%\"><td>" +
-							"<center><b>Emoticon Commands:</b><br />" +
-							"<i><font color=\"gray\">(By: <a href=\"https://github.com/panpawn/Pokemon-Showdown/blob/master/chat-plugins/emoticons.js\">panpawn</a>)</font></i></center><br />" +
-							"/emote <code>add, [emote], [link]</code> - Adds a chat emoticon. Requires ~.<br />" +
-							"/emote <code>remove, [emote]</code> - Removes a chat emoticon. Requires ~.<br />" +
-							"/emote <code>modchat, set, [rank symbol / disable]</code> - Sets moderated chat for chat emoticons in the respected room to the respected rank. Requires @, #, &, ~.<br />" +
-							"/emote <code>modchat, disable</code> - Disables moderated chat for chat emoticons (enabled by default.) Requires @, #, &, ~.<br />" +
-							"/emote <code>modchat</code> - Views the current moderated chat status of chat emoticons.<br />" +
-							"/emote <code>list</code> - Shows the chat emoticons in a list form.<br />" +
-							"/emote <code>view</code> - Shows all of the current chat emoticons with the respected image.<br />" +
-							"/emote <code>object</code> - Shows the object of Gold.emoticons.chatEmotes. (Mostly for development usage)<br />" +
-							"/emote <code>max, [max emotes / message]</code> - Sets the max emoticon messages per chat message.  Requires ~.<br />" +
-							"/emote <code>help</code> - Shows this help command.<br />" +
-						"</td></table>"
-					);
-			}
-		} catch (e) {
-			console.log("ERROR!  The Emoticon script has crashed!\n" + e.stack);
-		}
-	},
-	emoticonlist: 'emotelist',
-	emotelist: function(target, room, user) {
-		return this.errorReply("Try /emote view instead.");
-	}
-};