Support Forum

For when you will read this 😉

1. On the support forum of my host someone asked about possible future upgrade of mysql and the support said they have this in their todos but not a date yet. I guess it will take some major planning as a change of the db version may have a big impact and my host has thousand of websites and blogs. So I don't think they will do it that soon. Nevertheless one of the guys there is my good friends and I will ask him.

2. It may be a good idea if I try other plugins, such as bbpress, I can create quickly a test environment (my host is free) which I wanted to do for my forum anyway, put bbpress and see what happens from a mobile phone when inserting an emoji. Just to check if they have the same problem or not 😀

3. In any case I think, from my days of programmer, that if you say that simple:press works with WP 4.2 then you should cater for people using emoji. You cannot tell people: "oh by the way the mysql must be this version": a lot of people creating a forum with a plugin probably don't know which db version the host has.So I think the easiest is put some code which, if mysql is not the right version, will ignore the emoji. That would make your plugin robust, I think, but that's only my opinion 😉

Sunday here, and more that sunny, I hope I rest so I will bother you guys less today 😀

Sorry, I didn't mean to be unkind or un-trusting, I just went into debug mode and wrote all I thought about it. I guess I am so used to other environments (including my host, of whom I find despicable they have not even set a date for the upgrade of myphp) which would not consider this obvious at all 😉 I am very glad you do, because until it's somehow fixed, I cannot go live on my blog with my forum. On facebook I have a page with about 270k people. The minute I announce the forum I am going to have so many ladies, all ready with their mobile phone and their 5-in-a-row emojis, clicking on the forum! 

Of course I will 😉

ok!

I installed the new upgrade of SP and tested the emoji problem on my forum. The post gets saved and, of course, mo emoji is shown. Problem solved, thanks a lot 🙂