Canned Text

[filburt1]

This hack allows members to reply to messages with "canned text" (prewritten messages). This is useful for moderators and helpful members who find that they are constantly answering the same question over and over again.

[filburt1]

Screenshots:

[Rose]

:D Very nice, Filburt!

* Rose installs immediately

[Kars10]

Very cool Hack!!
Install this right now... :)

Thanks Filburt1

[Overgrow]

Hey I requested this a few months ago cuz I was too lazy to do it :D Nice! I'll check the shots... I hope this works in PM!

[filburt1]

It can be adapted to work anywere, just get the data from the cannedtext table.

[Overgrow]

>>Don't ever PM me with vB questions. Ever.

If your hack worked in PMs you could just use a canned response :)

[filburt1]

I just ignore vB PMs.

[Xenon]

hmm, how did you become mod then? :D

as said in general hacking..
nice hack :)

[N9ne]

This is a very nice hack filby, thanks :).

[Dan]

Wow Filbie has turned hacker

-will install this when he gets home-

[Dean C]

Cool hack filburt. Can we add an admin option to use it only for certain usegroups?

Where you seperate the usergroups with a comma?

Thanks ;)

- miSt

[Schorsch]

Thanks filburt!

One question, how can I make this only available for admins and mods ?

[filburt1]

It can if you write it yourself :p

[pattox]

Wow, thanks Filburt I apreciate you responding to my request so quickly!

[Overgrow]

>>It can if you write it yourself

LOL a hacker after my own heart.

[Kars10]

Today at 18:21 Schorsch said this in Post #13 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=370017#post370017)
Thanks filburt!

One question, how can I make this only available for admins and mods ?

Hab ich bei mir auch gemacht. ?ber den Logician Template Conditions Hack. :)

I love this hack!! Great work Filburt! ;)

[N9ne]

Today at 05:55 PM Kars10 said this in Post #17 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=370038#post370038)


Hab ich bei mir auch gemacht. ?ber den Logician Template Conditions Hack. :)

I love this hack!! Great work Filburt! ;)


Oh oh, German practise:

"I have done this myself using Logician's conditional templates hack"

Something like that eh?

[Xenon]

exactly :)

Kars10, kannst doch jetzt nicht einfach hier mit deutsch anfangen :D

[Kars10]

@ Ni9ne, very Good!! Exactly that!! ;)
@ Xenon, sorry die Gewohnheit ... :(

[N9ne]

Today at 06:03 PM Xenon said this in Post #19 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=370049#post370049)
exactly :)

Kars10, kannst doch jetzt nicht einfach hier mit deutsch anfangen :D


And you said something about not talking in German everytime in threads, "Kars10, can you not in every thread discuss in German" lol, I worded that badly, but it was a word to word translation.

Anyway, I'm taking this too off topic...so um I'll stop now :)

[N!ck]

Great idea!

[Boofo]

Good one, Turtle Guy. ;) Thanks!

[Intex]

Very cool hack m8 :cool:.

[Kars10]

@ Filburt, how can we integrate this to Firefly?s Quickreplybox?? :confused:

Kars

[ULTIMATESSJ]

i've been looking for something like this for my forums, it's very useful for mods and admins who have to deal with the same spammers and problems

[Boofo]

For anyone interested in having this show only to Admins and SuperMods (and Mods, if desired), use Logician's Dynamic Templates hack (and if you're not, shame on you!) and just do a conditional in the usercpnav template for the link in the navbar and the $jscannedbits in the newreply template. ;)

[Chris Gwynne]

I was going to suggest that to Mist, Boofo :p

This is the way I'm doing it and it works well. :p

[Boofo]

The only drawback is that they can still run the cannedtext.php file from the url bar and save text that way. ;)

[Rose]

Isn't there a way to prevent certain usergroups from viewing certain php files?

[filburt1]

Well by editing the PHP file yes:

if (!in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], array(list of bad usergroupids)))
{
...
}

[Link14716]

Or... if (in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], array(list of bad usergroupids))) {
exit;
}

Nice hack. :)

* Link14716 (c)licks install. :)

[Chris Gwynne]

Well, only YOU know about cannedtext.php in the first place. So, I don't think it's a problem. :)

[Boofo]

So, if we replace both instances of this:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 or $ctmax == 0) show_nopermission();

with this:

if (!in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], array(5, 6, 7)) or $ctmax == 0) {
show_nopermission();
}

in the cannedtext.php file, then we should be all set? ;)

[filburt1]

Yup, looks right.

[Schorsch]

Yesterday at 06:30 PM filburt1 said this in Post #14 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=370022#post370022)
It can if you write it yourself :p

yeah man i'm not a hacker! great support here :(

[filburt1]

As the title clearly states:
The hacker cannot guarantee to provide support for this hack.
So I don't think the one star rating was really necessary, now was it? I'm a busy man, I can't customize every hack I write for every user who asks.

[Schorsch]

1 star ? I gave u 5!

!!BUSH SUCKS!!

[filburt1]

Well somebody did, circumstances just seemed to point to you.

That Bush thing was sure out of nowhere...

[Boofo]

He's busy working on his math. ;)

[Xscape]

Hmm... I like the idea... And I installed...

But I don't get why I see nothing in under
"Edit Canned Text"

[filburt1]

If the textboxes are empty it's because you haven't defined any custom text yet.

[Xscape]

No, there's just nothing there. The table ends after "Edit Canned Text".

[filburt1]

Then you didn't install the hack correctly, or you're not using my normal requirements of PHP 4.3.0 and vB 2.3.0 RC3.

[Boofo]

To have the usercp navbar appear at the top of the page in your cannedtext page:

NOTE: You may want to edit the first part here. I have 9 items in my navbar. You may have less or more.

Add this:

$cpnav[1]="#1C5780";
$cpnav[2]="#1C5780";
$cpnav[3]="#1C5780";
$cpnav[4]="#1C5780";
$cpnav[5]="#1C5780";
$cpnav[6]="#1C5780";
$cpnav[7]="#1C5780";
$cpnav[8]="#1C5780";
$cpmenu[9]="class=\"fjsel\" selected";
$cpnav[9]="#13486D";

Above this:

eval("\$cpnav = \"".gettemplate("usercpnav")."\";");

And put:

<br>
$cpnav
<br>

In the cannedtext template right BELOW this:

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="95%" align="center">
<tr>
<td width="100%"><normalfont>
<b><img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/vb_bullet.gif" align="middle" alt="$bbtitle - powered by vBulletin version $templateversion">
<a href="index.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">$bbtitle</a>
&gt; Edit Canned Text</normalfont></td>
</tr>
</table>

You will have to ajust the colors accordingly since vb.org parses them out here. But you should all get the idea. ;)

[pattox]

I dont seem to have permission to access cannedtext.php, I am admin...

[filburt1]

With my original cannedtext.php? It will load if your userid is not 0 (i.e., you're not a guest). Make sure you're logged in.

[pattox]

You do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
You do not have permission to access the page that you were trying to. Are you trying to edit someone else's post or trying to access administrative features? Check that you are allowed to perform this action in the Forum Rules.
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
Logged in user: Owen [logout]

[filburt1]

What are the first few lines of cannedtext.php?

[pattox]

<?
if ($_POST['action'] == "save")
{
$templateused = "standardredirect,redirect_cannedtextsaved";
require("./global.php");
if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 or $ctmax == 0) show_nopermission();

$userid = $bbuserinfo['userid'];

// force the update to work if the rows don't exist yet
$DB_site->query("DELETE FROM cannedtext WHERE userid = $userid");
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO cannedtext (userid, number, contents)
VALUES ($userid, 1, \"\"), ($userid, 2, \"\"), ($userid, 3, \"\"), ($userid, 4, \"\"), ($userid, 5, \"\")");

[lalo landa]

the same happends to me....
do U know what's goin on?

[filburt1]

Make sure that you have the canned text settings correct in the admin CP

[lalo landa]

there's options only in the MAIN options of the vb?
because the only settig that i see is the max of words...

[lalo landa]

the problem is in here

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 or $ctmax == 0) show_nopermission();

I take out the line and works grate.. but.. the unregistred can access

[lalo landa]

Ready

change the line
if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 or $ctmax == 0) show_nopermission();

for
if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 ) show_nopermission();


and works fine but U can't disable the "service"

[Boofo]

I think you need to go to the Admin CP and open the cannedtext options and save it for it to work right. I am using the same code (with a few usergroupids added) that you took out and it works fine for me. ;)

[pattox]

yea, that woz the problem. I didnt realise that installer added the settings...

[filburt1]

What's more the installer makes the settings defaults of not 0 so it's weird that it happened. Either way that line works: if the user is a guest or the system is disabled, then deny access.

[Boofo]

filburt, you might want to add that to the instruction file where they have to go to the options and hit enter to make it work. ;)

[filburt1]

I have to edit my install script to edit the options template too (stupid vB way of doing settings...).

edit: I can't until I get home anyway because it's tricky to compress stuff in OS X.

[Boofo]

Whenever is fine. It will save you a lot of "it's not working, what's wrong" messages. I know how much time you need for math. Just trying to help. ;)

[Boofo]

filburt, I put this hack in the newthread.php too, but I want to make sure I have to code in the right spot so as not too mess with anything else in there. I put the code for this hack below the following code:

// check to see if signature required
if ($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0 and !$previewpost) {
if ($bbuserinfo[signature]!="") {
$signaturechecked="CHECKED";
} else {
$signaturechecked='';
}
if ($bbuserinfo[emailnotification]) {
$emailchecked="checked";
} else {
$emailchecked='';
}
}

Is that ok or do I need to move it somewhere else?

[filburt1]

It should be pretty much anywhere after the permission checks and before showthread is eval'ed.

[Boofo]

Well, it's in the Start New Thread section and the only permissions in there are for the poll posting. That is the last section of the file and a few lines up from the dooutput newthread. Hopefully it will be ok there.

[drumsy]

Why does the "Canned Text" Nav option display correctly when accessing my User CP but when I click on anything else like Edit Options or Private Messages, it get's blacked out?

[drumsy]

Bump! :)

[filburt1]

I think it's a bug, look at that whole block of the same code with indicies 1 to 7 and add the 8th where appropriate.

[Boofo]

filburt, is there a way to allow canned text to be added to the message instead of writing over anything we have in the message box when we use it? Right now, if I write anything in the message and click any canned text, it erases what is there and inserts the canned text.

[filburt1]

Edit the Javascript added via the template mod (no, don't know how).

[Boofo]

You and me both. ;) I'm disappointed now, filburt. I thought you were the "Ultimate Hacker" these days, capable of almost anything, with all of the great hacks you've been releasing. ;)

Does anyone else reading this thread know how to accomplish this?

[filburt1]

Today at 04:09 PM Boofo said this in Post #70 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=373744#post373744)
You and me both. ;) I'm disappointed now, filburt. I thought you were the "Ultimate Hacker" these days, capable of almost anything, with all of the great hacks you've been releasing. ;)


I'm working on yet another addition to the Major Additions category :p

[Boofo]

Well, I guess we'll just have to see if you keep the "Ultimate Ultimate Hacker" status after you release it then, huh? ;)

You're going to have to do something pretty amazing to recover from this, though, I'm afraid. :p

[drumsy]

Yesterday at 11:12 AM filburt1 said this in Post #67 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=373608#post373608)
I think it's a bug, look at that whole block of the same code with indicies 1 to 7 and add the 8th where appropriate.

I'm not quite following you....:(

[drumsy]

Bump! :)

[sabret00the]

Great hack, will be installing this on my boards soon

[Boofo]

filburt, how do we make it so the canned text boxes have 2 on each line instead of one box on each line and wasting all that space?

[filburt1]

Just edit the cannedtext template but you'll loose the ability to dynamically show the correct number of textareas.

[Boofo]

If I knew how to do it, I wouldn't have bothered you with it. ;)

I'm still new at tables, but isn't there a way to make it do 2 tables side by side for each line and do it something like that?

[filburt1]

Would be more efficient to make it 4 columns instead of the 2 it is now.

[Boofo]

Ok, how can we do that?

[filburt1]

Would take too much time to explain, would prefer to just help with the normal hack :)

[Mathiau]

Ignore - got it - just had to change and save an admin option and they show!

wicked hack m8 - u rule!

[+Fares+]

filburt1 , help me with this please everything was fine , except this one to selet the canned text ..

as u see in the attach file ..the rest are working more then great except this didn't appears ..

[filburt1]

Make sure you followed the instructions and that you ran the script properly for all style sets.

[+Fares+]

same thing i followed everything all over again but still can't get the it man :(

[+Fares+]

evertyhign thing works more then great now :-)

any way to use the canned text in the PM too ?

Great work man !:)

[filburt1]

Yes, just get the appropriate info from the cannedtext table and use the same routine I did to clean it for Javascript.

[vB-Host.com]

In template new reply I have...
$message</textarea><br>
<smallfont><a href="javascript:checklength(document.vbform);">[check message length]</a>$jscannedbits </smallfont></td>

but if I reply to a message .. http://www.vb-host.com/forum/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=20 there is no place to get the canned text from... only the message lenth.

[filburt1]

Do you have any canned text set up in your user CP?

[vB-Host.com]

yes I sure do ... three different ones and the limit is set to 25 in the acp options

[filburt1]

Then I don't know what to say. Make sure you followed the instructions to the letter.

[vB-Host.com]

redid the hack three times.. ran the installer three times... nothing

[yxboom]

I had the problems of no permission to access the canned text but did what Boofo said to just click Save in the Admin Options and it worked without any alteration to the hack. Just FYI :)

[Boofo]

I wouldn't trust a whole lot of what Boofo says. He's wrong more than he is right.

[Chris M]

I'll vouch for that Bob;):p

Nice filby;)

Satan

[Intex]

Works great. Excellent idea Filburt1. I had a problem initially. I couldn't see the canned text drop-down and had the permission denied message when selecting the link for the Canned Text in the usercp.

I read a little further on and noticed that the reason was because you needed to visit the admincp and just save the options to activate everything. Once I'd done this - everything worked fine. May be a good idea to update the instructions to help others :).

* Intex clicks install.

[Boofo]

Today at 11:57 AM hellsatan said this in Post #95 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=402943#post402943)
I'll vouch for that Bob;):p

Nice filby;)

Satan

You're only saying that because it's true.

Test time! Ok, Chris, you should know this one, then. How do I edit the javascript to allow me to add the canned text to a message instead of it replacing a message in a reply?

[reismarktq2]

Test time! Ok, Chris, you should know this one, then. How do I edit the javascript to allow me to add the canned text to a message instead of it replacing a message in a reply?You guys are going to be kicking yourselves: Changing the code so that the canned text is added to the message instead of replacing the message only requires the addition of ONE CHARACTER to ONE LINE of code.

In the newreply template, find:if (number != 0) document.vbform.message.value = cannedtext[number];Change it to:if (number != 0) document.vbform.message.value += cannedtext[number];Just goes to show you that nine hundred-ninety-nine times out of a thousand, the answer is simpler than we expect it to be...

Now I have a question of my own: Any idea how I can add the canned text drop-down to my newthread.php, so that my users can use their canned text when posting a new thread?

[filburt1]

That won't insert it at the caret, but still good nonetheless ;)

[Boofo]

Thank you very much, reismarktq2. That works a lot better than it did. Any idea how to reset the drop down after we pick a canned text from the listing so we can add more than one per message if needed?

By the way, I have it in the newthread also. Basically just do the same thing in newthread as you did in the newreply and it will work. ;)

[reismarktq2]

Boofo: That was my guess, but I asked the question because I couldn't find the same block of code in newthread.php as in newreply.php, and I wasn't sure where to put the hack code in the file. Where did you put it in newthread.php?

As for adding more than one canned message - the code as is doesn't prevent you from doing that. If you click on the listing and pick another item, it still will add it. It's just a visual rather than a function distraction right now.

[Boofo]

If I pick a canned text from the drop down I have to set the drop down at the default (Select canned text:) before I can do another pick from the listing. I want it to go back to the default after I have picked a canned text from the listing so I can pick another one instead of having to manually going back to the default first. Does that make any sense?

In newthread, I put the same code for newreply after this:

if ($bbuserinfo[emailnotification]) {
$emailchecked="checked";
} else {
$emailchecked='';
}
}

[reismarktq2]

Today at 08:04 AM Boofo said this in Post #102 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=407469#post407469)
If I pick a canned text from the drop down I have to set the drop down at the default (Select canned text:) before I can do another pick from the listing. I want it to go back to the default after I have picked a canned text from the listing so I can pick another one instead of having to manually going back to the default first. Does that make any sense?Unfortunately, it doesn't to me, because I don't have to go back to the default... I can just select the next item and it'll add it without a problem.

In newthread, I put the same code for newreply after this:

if ($bbuserinfo[emailnotification]) {
$emailchecked="checked";
} else {
$emailchecked='';
}
} Thanks, this did the trick. :)

[Boofo]

Maybe it's because I only have 1 canned text in there now. I'll add a few more and try it. ;)

Glad you got it working in the newthread. I also have it in the editpost but I only have it turned on for Admins and Mods.

If there a way to have it add the canned text wherever the cursor is at? Or do we need to go in the js files for that?

[Holidazed]

Boofo, your addon for the newthread is awesome. However, you also need to follow the newreply template instructions on put them in the newhtread template instead. Works like a charm.

Awesome hack filbert. How do I add this to the PM system. I am constantly getting PMs that require the same reply. Can we add this there?

I would also like to see and option to turn off the PM Canned text like the Thread Canned text canned be turned off.

[Holidazed]

Well, it seems that only Admins and Moderators can make use of this hack. Can somebody please tell me how to make this available to everybody?

[Holidazed]

Come on guys!! I need a bit of help here.

[proxyMX]

Canned Text is sorta a macro tool then?

[Sadie Frost]

Well, it seems that only Admins and Moderators can make use of this hack. Can somebody please tell me how to make this available to everybody?

I just installed this and it worked fine for registered members as well :)

[Crank]

i have installed but am having trouble trying to integrate to the quick reply box on my site. anyone able to help please?

[Nutz]

Any chance of this being converted to 3.5?

Thanks,
Mat

[GrantHorizons]

Yes - VERY useful - but 3.5 PLEASE! :)

[Nutz]

I found the same type of hack for 3.5 :)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=103027&highlight=quick+clip

Thanks,
Mat