Archive becomes text version of forums..
 

Sorry for the unintuitve title, I couldn`t think of anything better... basically what I`m trying to do is add a quick reply to the archive so that it can be used as a "text only" version of my forums..

I co-admin an "adult" forum, and some members visit during work hours (naughty I know) but we`d like to offer them the option of browsing and posting without viewing the graphics of the site..

but after a few hours bashing my head against a wall I`m still no closer to getting this working... anybody got any idea how/if this can be achieved..

It might be a hack that is usefull for other forums too..

Thanks..

Giving this a bump in the hope someone might have an idea how to get this to work.

Why not use the Archive build into vB3 ???

http://yourforum.com/forum/archive/index.php try this there is only text

Greetings

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to add a reply system into the archive would require lots of unnessary files making the archive less archivsh

if you users want a text only version of the forum make one? :P

Would it? My first idea was that a "quick reply" box could be added to the thread view on the archive (that bit was easy) and the vbulletin existing newreply could be used so that permissions, bbcode parsing, etc, etc.. where all kept in check.. but this is where I`m having my problem as the threadid isn`t been sent to the newreply so it`s coming back with a thread not specified page, I`ve checked and the threadid of an archive page is the same as the threadid of a forum page.. just can`t figure out how to capture that id and send it.. (and then the other hurdle after that, is redirecting someone back to the archive page if they`ve come from that, without screwing up the existing reply system)