TOPIC: Emoticon (smilies) support: No / Yes

If you go to Components, !Joomlacomment, Other component settings, com_content, Layout, Emoticon (smilies) support:, and choose No! After you will save the settings.

The Emoticon (smilies)stays Yes anyway. And the setting stay Yes (it is like read only on config file). I trying to create serious site I do not need emotions in comments.

Please help!

Are you using beta2? For me it is working with beta2. I can turn the smilies off without any problem.

I useing joomlacomment4.0.0beta2.zip

Please tel me in which css file this settings is stored I will change them manualy!?

I would advise against manually changing the XML meta file because obviously there is a permissions problem on your site. If you are sure you are using Beta 2, your problem lies elsewhere. Verify permissions with the GuardXT extension and make sure Joomla has the FTP layer installed. You could also try uninstalling then reinstalling JoomlaComment.

Hm, Jonus! What xml meta file permissions? The configuration is saved in the database. So the actual place where the user should look is the databse. Open your database with phpmyadmin -> go to joomlacomment settings table and see the params for emoticons -> are thy set to no?

Whoops, sorry! It's only the default parameters that are stored in a file *facepalm*

Well, still, that's cause for worry. Why is the Joomla instalaltion not able to modify a DB table/row? You should probably double-check that the SQL username/password in Joomla configuration has all permissions set to allow in phpmyadmin administration. But yes, you should see it in the jos_comment table in phpmyadmin and you could change it there manually.

Thank you! Your method worked!

And I will check permissions too.
Permissions in joomla (global settings) or in phpmyadmin or in DirectAdmin?

Behold, good sir, follow these steps to verify that Joomla is setup good and well for full SQL access:

1) In the Joomla backend, head over to 'Global Configuration', go to the third tab 'Server'
2) Box on the top right, make a note of the 'Database Settings'. They should be something like this as an example:...you can ignore the top one (Database Type) and the last one (Prefix), just make note of Hostname - it should probably always be localhost unless you have exotic server settings (if it's not localhost, let me know as it may be the issue - your server could be using some kind of route/proxy or shared database. The Username and database, write them down.
3) Go to phpmyadmin now, and on the left click the database name you got from step 2 (in my case, I click "jonusc_main"
4) Now in phpmyadmin, click the 'Prilileges' tab - it should be the second last one. Verify the permissions there; in my case this is how it should look:

If everything there is correct, then perhaps there may be an issue with the database. Or there is a bug in JoomlaComment we havn't yet seen Don't worry about it too much now, but if you have strange things happen in future for a different extension, lodge a support ticket to your webhost and mention that you had trouble with a database operation once before.