Quick Reply Box

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.

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.

[KuraFire]

There is still no news about making this a selectable option in the User CP ?

[Admin]

No KuraFire, sorry I'm just not gonna bother. Sorry to sound harsh.
(I'm just SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO goddamn tired of adding options to the user cp... it's like, the worst thing you could do ever! I'm just waiting for v3 so this can be done more easily... )

[KuraFire]

Okay well no worries, it's only my co-admin that wants it selectable, everyone else is liking it this way (as am I, big time, it saves on bandwith a bit as well! ^_^) but I was just wondering if it was being done nonetheless, cos IF SO I would use it.

No worries, I'm glad even that you're not gonna both with it. Saves *me* the effort of hacking the pages as well!

Oh ps. could you please look at the link in my sig? I sent ya a PM but the PM tracking doesn't show it. Weird... :/

[fury]

Excellent hack! For some reason, however, adding the clicky smilies to the template causes showthread.php to take a lot longer to finish loading. What I mean is, the posts load, and then the last post on that page is the last thing you see for about 20 seconds, and then finally the bottom bar with the new thread and post reply buttons, as well as everything below it shows.

I did exactly as you said, put $clickysmilies = getclickysmilies(); after the $textareacols... line and then put $clickysmilies in the template along with those two <script> tags after the <form>. After I did this, it began the symptoms as I described above.

I appreciate any help I can get on this.

[fury]

Bumpaw00t.

[Admin]

fury, you can't eat the cake and leave it whole. (or however you say it )

The page will obviously slow down when you load 20 more images in it...

[kill yourself]

ummmmm........
I did everything as directed.
It's not working for me


ugh...

[Warlord]

Installed, and added the code Firefly posted to make it only visible to Admins when a thread is locked, works great!

How would I go about adding the "Lock Topic with reply" feature to that?

[Erwin]

It works in 2.2.2 with no problems. I installed the smilie box for a short time, but it slowed the threads down too much, so I took it out, and left a link to the post reply page.

[Admin]

Warlord, do you have that hack installed?