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.

[MikeL]

Very nice but I get a runtime error line 274 anyone else...

PS I'm a newbie... be kind.

Thanks

[Pulsorock]

What if I allow Guest/Unregistered users to post in my boards. Is there a way I can prevent them from using the quick reply box to post and in that way preventing that what they type appears with no name in the author field?

[Boofo]

We installed the quick reply box, which by the way is a great hack. We installed bira's expand and contract like you have here and now when we use the reply box it gives us this error:

No thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster.

Firefly, have you run into this problem yet and do you have any idea what might be causing it? Thanks in advance.

[Chris M]

@Boofo - How do you mean?

Will it not allow you to post?

If not, maybe you should check your "showthread" template again, and make sure you havent put the $replybox, or the code it tells you to put in, in the wrong place...

Satan

[Learner29]

this is an excellent hack. I love it. I tried it and it works very fine.

[Sketch]

nice work, Firefly. Works weel.

Sketch

[Learner29]

> nice work, Firefly. Works weel.

IMHO, this Quick Reply Box hack is one of the very best hacks I ever used.
It works nice, it is VERY useful, and I personally did not have ANY error
with it, though I installed it on four different bulletins.

can I send a flower (F) to FireFly. ?

[ForKmaN]

I installed this hack and it seemed to work fine, but it started giving me syntax errors because of the JavaScript with the checking message length part of the hack, is there someway I can fix this?

I was going to uninstall it but I'm not sure if this code for this hack is interfering with other hacks.

[Jawelin]

Originally posted by akaler
[...]
Two suggestions

A. I noticed that when you do a quick reply, it doesn't add that particular post to your subscribed threads. Is there a way to turn that on? Or perhaps in an update, give a checkbox someone hits to subscribe... a little "subscribe to thread" box would be cool.

A lot of people don't even know they're subscribed to threads when they reply the normal way. A checkbox system would not just give them a choice, but give them awareness, too.

Look at Post #272 and more...


Instead, I'm still looking for a way to check if the current page is the last page of the thread .... Anyone ?!?!? :disappointed:
Thnx

[Admin]

Jawelin: Try

if ($pagenumber == ceil($totalposts/$perpage)) {

But you will need to move the hack down a bit I think... mess with it a little.