Is {EMAILICON} deprecated?

[MikeyGMT]

Looking at email.php for lans rework, but looks like {EMAILICON} is no longer used on templates. So is email.php deprecated?

[rica-carv]

It might be, since now the email icon & button is on the social plugin...

[MikeyGMT]

Ah OK - have yet to play with social plugin. I'll leave the lans alone for emailicon.

[rica-carv]

But for some reason, i can't figure out why the send email button has anything to do with the social plugin, if there's already a core one.... Why no use it inside the social plugin?

Just my thoughts....

[MikeyGMT]

I'm looking to comment all unused LANs for #6 to reduce the number of LANs for translators. Hence, if they're not used, then let's disable them.

[Moc]

But for some reason, i can't figure out why the send email button has anything to do with the social plugin, if there's already a core one.... Why no use it inside the social plugin?

Probably because it is a leftover from v1

[rica-carv]

@Moc ?

Probably because it is a leftover from v1

What's leftover from V1? The Email button shortcode, or the inclusion of it inside the social plugin (which i can't yet understand why it's there).

For instance, what if i want to use that button isolated fom all the social buttons?

[Moc]

As far as I understand it: {EMAILICON} was present in v1, now in v2 the social plugin combines a lot of these sharing options (social media but also email). There are thus two options to share via email: the emailicon and the social plugin.

I may be incorrect though, I don't use either.

[rica-carv]

@Moc I also understand that, but in my v1.x site i had the regular legacy email button, wich allowed me also to put it wherever i want it. If now the legacy button is scheduled to go, in favor of the social plugin button row, there's a big issue in that ideia.... How can the social plugin render only the email button?

[Moc]

@CaMer0n What do you think?

[CaMer0n]

@Moc No, it's not deprecated.. as you can see here in the news shortcodes:

/**
 * {EMAILICON: class=x}
 */
function sc_emailicon($parm=array())
{
    $pref = e107::getPref();
    if (!check_class(varset($pref['email_item_class'],e_UC_MEMBER)))
    {
        return '';
    }
    require_once(e_HANDLER.'emailprint_class.php');
    return emailprint::render_emailprint('news', $this->news_item['news_id'], 1, $parm);
}

It would have @deprecated in the docs above the function/shortcode if it were.

[rica-carv]

If it's not deprecated, why social icons plugin uses it's own emailicon, instead of the core one? Why reinvent the wheel?