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.

[Admin]

JTMON - Add this line:

	$clickysmilies = getclickysmilies();

to showthread.php right after this:

	$textareacols = gettextareawidth();

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:

<script language="Javascript" src="vbcode.js"></script>
<script language="Javascript" src="vbcode_language.js"></script>

to the template right after the <form> tag. That should work.

Wow this is even handier than I thought...

[SWFans.net]

Pretty cool hack but I have one question.

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

[Admin]

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.

[SWFans.net]

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

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

[Admin]

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

[Dade]

Pretty sweet Chen

[nafae]

yes and fun to use!

[SWFans.net]

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.

[Rose]

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'. Good work, Firefly!!!

[Mark Hensler]

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