Here's an easy one, it barely took 4 minutes to do. :china:
This hack will add a quick replying box at the bottom of all threads, only if the user has permission to reply, so when you need to reply to something real quickly you don't need to click the Post Reply button and wait for the page to load.

Instructions are in the attached .txt file, and if you want a demo... just look below. :D

NOTE: For the vB 2.3.2 version please see this post.

Extras:

• If you want users who have the Use Email Notification option ON, to automatically subscribe to threads they reply to with this hack, see this post.
  
• If you want to add an option for each user to turn this feature on and off, please see this post.
  
• If you want smilies in your quick reply box please see this post.

cool :cool:

Its kinda similiar to this one though:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ighlight=quick

Sorry, I didn't know this already exists.
Still mine only shows up for users that can reply to the thread, not to all users. :)

How about throwing a switch in the User CP so the user can toggle it on/off?

Nice job! It would be great to see this in vB 3.0. :cool:

Seems to be a hit with my members

*clicks on install*

Very cool, Chen!

I'm planning to install it with a small variation: as I don't like that textbox at the end of the thread, I'll put a button or a link near the existing [Post Reply], something like [Quick Reply], and will open a javascript page with the textbox as you proposed.

What do you think about ? :)

Thanks a lot for sharing your work.

P.S.: what about closed threads ? Are they managed ?
Thnx

Great addition :) A quick install, painless and easy.

Im posting using it right now!

Thanks. :pleased:

Mark - I don't really think that's necessary.

Jawelin - That would pretty much ruin the whole idea of a quick reply box, because if you open it in a new window you have to load all the global, sessions, etc. stuff just like on the regular new reply, so I don't think it would be much faster, if at all.

does it work on 2.2.1? i tried to install it and the box didnt show up :p

FireFly did u think add some smile icons in that function~~

and nice job :up:

Well since it's running here and this forum is running 2.2.1, the answer would be yes! ;)

hmm yeah, the box just didnt show up :)

this code appears at 2 places. the first one is at line ~55 and the 2. one at 230. after which one must i add the changes to it?

Very useful hack

Thx a ton :)

never mind, i forgot to upload showthread.php :) duh hahahahahaha

cihangir - thanks, I fixed the text file in the first post.
Neopiper - that's probably why the hack didn't work for you, try again now.

it works great, thx firefly :)

This looks great Chen! How would I add the smilie box to the left of it though as my members love their smilies:D

Great will be installing this one for sure.

JTMON - Add this line:
to showthread.php right after this:
then use $clickysmilies in the showthread_quickreply template to add the box with the smilies in it, but you will also need to add these two lines:
to the template right after the <form> tag. That should work. :)

Wow this is even handier than I thought... :D

Pretty cool hack but I have one question.

Is there a way to not have it show within closed threads?

It won't show up in closed threads for your users, but it does show up for you because you (as an admin) can still post, even in closed threads.

Cool!!! I didn't test as a regular user. Thanks for clearing that up for me. :D

EDIT: Yeah, I just checked as a regular user and it does display in closed threads.

Wait... I think you are right. :o Let me check it, k? :)

Pretty sweet Chen

yes and fun to use!

It does display to regular users in closed threads. =/

Need to try and make it dumb user friendly, becuase we have plenty of those @_@ dumb users.

:D I love it!!! I haven't added the smilie box yet, though. I think I'll leave it as is, if they want smilies they can click 'reply'. :D Good work, Firefly!!!

How about putting a preview button on the form and have it submit to the newreply.php page with the preview shown? :)

FireFly thanx again for cool hack:) working fine.
for the smillies
where should I add this, can u please explain?

thanx

FireFly a few of my users would like quote buttons on it. How exactly would I make two quote buttons under the message field? I was thinking even just two text buttons under the message field right next to the "[check message length]" button. All they need to do is one put the [ quote] tag in and the other put the [ /quote] tag in. Unless you can do something fancier, this is all I require. Can you please add this to it?

Thanks for any help you can provide. I love the hack, It would be nice to have colaspable tables that users could contract or expand that had icons and that saved their settings, but that would take more than 4 minutes. :D

hmmmm this is pretty neat indeed!

Yet are there any other people out there with me, that think this will increase spam, as how easy it is to reply?

thats probaly why I wouldn't install it, but none the less great hack chen!

Very nice twist on the original hack (which really wasn't anything but a template edit), Firefly! I've installed it w/o any problems, but I've added a preview button. "Preview is good... preview is ...good". :D

if you want to add the smiles do what firefly said and then find
this in quick reply templete
Your Reply:</b></normalfont></td>

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------change to
Your Reply:</b></normalfont><p>$clickysmilies</td>

excellent. :D

ugh! i may have to install this one. i didn't want to butcher my forums any more... :mad: ;)

this is a very quick reply

for anyone who added the smilies to the side of the replybox
i found that changing the number or rows in the textarea from 7 to 15 makes it look a lot better

also, the right is crying for the most popular vbcode options ie quote, img etc

Another great hack!

Parker