Quick Quote for Quick Reply

[RedTyger]

=Quick Quote for Quick Reply=



What does it do?
I was unsatisfied with the new multiquote addition to vBulletin and was wanting a truly quick and easy quoting method, primarily one that worked with Quick Reply since the others are quite workable.

So this is what I came up with. It's used simply by highlighting a post's text with your mouse. The highlighted text is transferred to Quick Reply as a formatted quote. To clear the highlighted text, click OUTSIDE the currently highlighted area or it'll add the quote again. So if you want to quote multiple posts (especially parts of multiple posts) instead of faffing around with quote or multiquote you just go down the page highlighting each bit of text you want to quote. Much better!

I wrote it for my own forum which unfortunately isn't open yet so you can't try before you buy, but you can get an idea from the screenshot (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=65509&d=1181562327).


Instructions
Upload quickquote.js to your forum's clientscript folder.

Go to AdminCP > Style Manager > Edit Templates and...
Open the SHOWTHREAD template:
FIND:

</head>


ADD ABOVE:

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/quickquote.js"></script>




Open the POSTBIT template:
FIND:

<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">
$post[message]
</div>


REPLACE WITH:

<div id="post_message_$post[postid]" onmouseup="quickquote('$post[musername]', '$post[postid]');">
$post[message]
</div>


That's it!


Notes:
- Does NOT work with the WYSIWYG quick reply editor. Same problem I had with another modification, I still can't for the life of me work out how to get text to transfer to it. Offers of a solution most welcome. :)

[alessai]

hmmmmm, so if we highlighted any text while reading the thred it will quote it automaticalley ?

[Sofia]

Thanks for this hack, i will test it :)

[RedTyger]

hmmmmm, so if we highlighted any text while reading the thred it will quote it automaticalley ?

That would be correct, yes.

[TheBlackPoet]

it sounds like a good one.. a really cool one..., but its didnt work for me... but i will be watching for this one....

[RedTyger]

it sounds like a good one.. a really cool one..., but its didnt work for me... but i will be watching for this one....

Are you using the WYSIWYG editor? It won't work with that, but it will work with the other types.

[Milad]

I think it's better to add a click-able link per post, on clicking that link the highlighted text will be quoted.

[subnet_rx]

I think it's better to add a click-able link per post, on clicking that link the highlighted text will be quoted.

I agree, and you've got to get it working in a WYSIWYG. Then this would be a great hack to have. I constantly find myself having to highlight parts of a huge post or deleting large chunks to reply to what I'd like to discuss.

[aggiefan]

i agree... we use wysiwyg and would like to have this hack....

[aveon]

i didnt eve get what this is for can u give lil bit more detail

[RedTyger]

Um. Not really. Read the text and look at the screenshot.

[dizzy100]

WYSIWYG working would be awesome as i love the sound of this mod.

[RedTyger]

I think it's better to add a click-able link per post, on clicking that link the highlighted text will be quoted.

Instead of this:


REPLACE WITH:

<div id="post_message_$post[postid]" onmouseup="quickquote('$post[musername]', '$post[postid]');">
$post[message]
</div>



Do something like this:


REPLACE WITH:

<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">
$post[message]
</div>
<div>
<a href="javascript:;" onclick="quickquote('$post[musername]', '$post[postid]');"><img src="quickquote.jpg" /></a>
</div>



Untested, but that should work. The key point is changing onmouseup to onclick which will trigger the quote transfer when the item is clicked, instead of when you've raised your mouse button after highlighting.

[Magnumutz]

It didn't fixed it for me...

[Illustrious]

I made it so that it will quote the selected text whenever I click the "quick reply" button:

I found this:

<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" id="qr_$post[postid]" onclick="return false"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/quickreply.gif" alt="$vbphrase[quick_reply_to_this_message]" border="0" /></a>
To this:
<a href="javascript:;" onclick="quickquote('$post[musername]', '$post[postid]');"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/quickreply.gif" alt="$vbphrase[quick_reply_to_this_message]" border="0" /></a>

But indeed, if you could get it to work with WYIWYG editor, it would be awesome.

[ragtek]

hi

now is wysiwyg editor here=> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?threadid=158614 also supported :)

just wanted let you know :)

[ragtek]

to make this add-on also in wysiwyg editor available change in the quickquote.js
fetch_object('vB_Editor_QR_textarea').value += newlines + '' + newQuickQuote + '';
into

vB_Editor[QR_EditorID].insert_text("newlines + '' + newQuickQuote + ''", false);

[larryd]

This is a great method of Quickly Quoting someone on the forums. I'm only running in to one problem. When someone quotes a moderator or administrator and I use HTML markup for the usernames it would say <font color=red><b>larryd</b></font> instead of just my name of red bolded my name like it is supposed to. Now I know I can easily fix this by enabling HTML for all of my forums but I'd prefer to either strip the HTML from the quote or convert the HTML to BBcode. I'm not familiar with javascript so I'm not 100% on the changes I'd need to make in the quickquote.js file. Anyone have an idea?

[Phaedrus]

Why wouldn't you use the little checkmark box under the quick quote box?

[Megareus Rex]

I made it so that it will quote the selected text whenever I click the "quick reply" button:

I found this:

<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" id="qr_$post[postid]" onclick="return false"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/quickreply.gif" alt="$vbphrase[quick_reply_to_this_message]" border="0" /></a>
To this:
<a href="javascript:;" onclick="quickquote('$post[musername]', '$post[postid]');"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/quickreply.gif" alt="$vbphrase[quick_reply_to_this_message]" border="0" /></a>

But indeed, if you could get it to work with WYIWYG editor, it would be awesome.
This...this edit brings it just one step away from being the quick quote hack I've been wanting since how awesome the 3.0 one was!!!

The only problem with this now is that doing this edit makes it so the QR button no longer functions normally.

If it can be made so that:
1: If there is text selected, pressing the QR button quotes it in quick reply.
2: If no text is selected, the QR buttons functions normally (e.g., marks that post as the post being replied to).

It will be pure awesomeness. As I said, I've been waiting for the second coming of the quick quote hack that I used to have back on 3.0, and with the edit I quoted, it truly is just one step away. Hopefully someone can complete it...


EDIT!!!

Nevermind! I worked it myself. I took illustrious' idea and, instead of replacing the original QR button, I added it right above it (so it appears to the left), and changed the image name to multiquote_off.gif, so that it calls the multiquote's button image. Then I turned off the built-in multiquote feature.

Now it works EXACTLY like I always wanted! So awesome...

[riverplate.com]

is there any way of showing the content of the post as quote when clicking on the quick reply buttom? not when selecting i mean.

thanks!

[Ziki]

to make this add-on also in wysiwyg editor available change in the quickquote.js
fetch_object('vB_Editor_QR_textarea').value += newlines + '';
into

vB_Editor[QR_EditorID].insert_text("newlines + ''", false);


That won't work properly, replace it with:

vB_Editor[QR_EditorID].insert_text( newlines + '' + newQuickQuote + '', false);