Title: WP-Grins errors
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WP-Grins errors

 *  [dansgirl165](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dansgirl165/)
 * (@dansgirl165)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-grins-errors/)
 * Hi,
    I’m trying to install WP-Grins and I’m getting errors that I can’t seem 
   to fix. After including the line of code into quicktags.php, I get this error:
   Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_grins() in /home/assorte/public_html/
   wp-admin/quicktags.php on line 2 I have wp-grins.php uploaded into the root directory
   and I have my-hacks turned on, but I’m still getting this error. I’m also getting
   one that reads: Parse error: parse error in /home/assorte/public_html/blog/my-
   hacks.php on line 2. I copied and pasted the code from the instructions. This
   is the only thing in my-hacks.php file. I’m not running any other hacks. I copied
   the code right from the instructions instead of typing it in (don’t know if that
   makes a difference or not, but I thought I should mention it.). I haven’t tried
   installing it into my blog’s comments yet because I wanted to make sure it worked
   in my post section first before I started messing around with the comments template.
   I run my comments inline. Any help I can get is greatly appreciated. Thanks. 
   Kathy

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-grins-errors/#post-46534)
 * The my-hacks.php file needs to conform to some requirements. The
    [My Hacks Wiki Page](http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/my-hacks.php)
   should help you.
 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-grins-errors/#post-46537)
 * within the my-hacks.php file, did you include the wp-grins.php file??
    TG
 *  Thread Starter [dansgirl165](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dansgirl165/)
 * (@dansgirl165)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-grins-errors/#post-46582)
 * I’ve got “my-hacks” enabled, and I uploaded it into my blog root directory. I
   uploaded just the file without the wp-grins code and that gives me no errors,
   so I know there was no whitespace where there shouldn’t be whitespace. It’s when
   I include the code for wp-grins is when I get the error.
    I copied and pasted
   the code and I also tried it with typing the code exactly as it was written in
   the readme file, but I’m still getting this error. My husband just asked me if
   maybe this hack wasn’t compatible with the version I’m running. I’m running 1.02.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-grins-errors/#post-46585)
 * It is compatible .. I also use it with 1.2a
    This is the code you are running?`
   <?php // WP Grins // version 1.0, 2004-01-24 // // Copyright (c) 2004 Alex King//
   http://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/ // // This is an add-on for WordPress//
   http://wordpress.org/ // // **********************************************************************//
   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but // WITHOUT
   ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
   FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  // *****************************************************************
   function wp_grins() { global $wpsmiliestrans; $smilies_directory = get_settings('
   smilies_directory'); $grins = ''; $smiled = array(); foreach ($wpsmiliestrans
   as $tag => $grin) { if (!in_array($grin, $smiled)) { $smiled[] = $grin; $tag 
   = str_replace(' ', '', $tag); $grins .= '<img src="'.$smilies_directory.'/'.$
   grin.'" alt="'.$tag.'" onclick="grin(\''.$tag.'\');"/> '; } } print('<div id="
   wp_grins">'.$grins.'</div>'); ob_start(); ?> <script type="text/javascript"> 
   function grin(tag) { var myField; if (document.getElementById('content') && document.
   getElementById('content').type == 'textarea') { myField = document.getElementById('
   content'); } else if (document.getElementById('comment') && document.getElementById('
   comment').type == 'textarea') { myField = document.getElementById('comment');}
   else { return false; } if (document.selection) { myField.focus(); sel = document.
   selection.createRange(); sel.text = tag; myField.focus(); } else if (myField.
   selectionStart || myField.selectionStart == '0') { var startPos = myField.selectionStart;
   var endPos = myField.selectionEnd; var cursorPos = endPos; myField.value = myField.
   value.substring(0, startPos) + tag + myField.value.substring(endPos, myField.
   value.length); cursorPos += tag.length; myField.focus(); myField.selectionStart
   = cursorPos; myField.selectionEnd = cursorPos; } else { myField.value += tag;
   myField.focus(); } } </script> <?php $grins = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean();
   print($grins); } ?>
 *  Thread Starter [dansgirl165](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dansgirl165/)
 * (@dansgirl165)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-grins-errors/#post-46816)
 * Sorry, I haven’t gotten back to this. I was sick last week.
    Anyway, yes, that’s
   the code from the wp-grins.php file. I did notice that after I downloaded it,
   all the code went for two lines and there were those boxes that Notepad sticks
   into a file to represent whenver someone hit “return”. So I got rid of those 
   and made everything be on the lines they were supposed to be. That didn’t work.
   I’m still getting the Parse error: parse error in /home/assorte/public_html/blog/
   my-hacks.php on line 2 message. I only get this when I put the code you have 
   to put into the ‘my-hacks’ file. I copied and pasted it and this is the code 
   I’m supposed to put there. `<?php require_once('wp-grins.php'); ?>` This is what’s
   on line 2. I’m working off the assumption that ‘wp-grins.php’ is supposed to 
   be uploaded into the root directory, because I don’t remember seeing anything
   written as to where this file should go. I uploaded it and ‘my-hacks’ into my
   blog’s root directory.
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-grins-errors/#post-46827)
 * I’m getting that error as well.
    `Parse error: parse error in /home/staticdr/
   public_html/wordpress/my-hacks.php on line 2` I have my-hacks.php and wp-grins.
   php uploaded to my root directory. Could it be that since I have my blog homepage
   address different than the directory I installed WordPress too it is effecting
   it? Example: Root directory is: [http://www.staticdream.com/wordpress](http://www.staticdream.com/wordpress)
   but I have my index.php file pointing towards [http://www.staticdream.com](http://www.staticdream.com)

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 * Last activity: [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-grins-errors/#post-46827)
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