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.

[NSeXcellent]

Originally posted by Allstar DC
NSeXcellent: that coding was in answer to hellsatans question about how to add the smiles to the replybox.

thats how i have done it and it does work.

if it isn't working then you must have done something wrong

Yes that is what I was attempting to do... I installed the quick reply box, then that addition there, but i get no smilies for the quick reply box

[AviationForum]

Arrgh!

I installed everything exactly as it was supposed to be, but when I try and reply using the Quick Reply Box I get a "no thread was specified" error message.

[AviationForum]

HELLLLLLLLLLLP!

[Martin CX]

Well... if you installed everything exactly as you were supposed to, you should be flying... but the error message sounds like something you'd get if this; " <input type="hidden" name="threadid" value="$threadid">" was omitted from the "showthread_replybox" template.

:ermm:

[rebirth]

can someone do a hack that adds the signature and automaticly parse urls checkboxes to the quick reply?

[desi]

how do i make this hack work in vbulletin 2.2.5 ...
i just bought the license and most of the hacks at aren't for 2.2.5 and also the older versions aren't available for download ....

could someone pls explain me what to do now

cheers

[chr@nox]

very nice hack m8...i had an old one of this which did work on 2.2.5 but it gave a runtime error
thanks alot!!

and cihangir...the one at 230 is the one u need to have

[James Cridland]

For an even quicker reply, position the cursor in the message box so your user can just start typing without selecting the box in the first place.

To do this, I tried adding this at the end of the template:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!--
document.vbform.message.focus();
//--></SCRIPT>

...but it doesn't do the job sometimes. Wonder where I'm going wrong?

Second, one of my users says (not unreasonably) "why does it appear on every page of a thread... why not just the last one"... I'll go hunting for a reason.

[Martin CX]

Originally posted by desi
how do i make this hack work in vbulletin 2.2.5 ...
i just bought the license and most of the hacks at aren't for 2.2.5 and also the older versions aren't available for download ....

could someone pls explain me what to do now

cheers

The hack works fine in 2.2.5. The code changes between the latest versions are often not very big, and thus most hacks work for 2.2.5 or 2.2.6 even though they were made for 2.2.1, for example.

[Martin CX]

Originally posted by rebirth
can someone do a hack that adds the signature and automaticly parse urls checkboxes to the quick reply?

Basically, you need to include "<input type="checkbox" name="parseurl" value="yes" $parseurlchecked>" and "<input type="checkbox" name="signature" value="yes" $signaturechecked>" to the layout (and some text labels for the check boxes, obviously ) and add it to the "showthread_replybox"-template where you want them. Afterwards remove "<input type="hidden" name="parseurl" value="yes">" and
"<input type="hidden" name="signature" value="yes">" from the template.

It isn't very hard. Have fun! :rambo: