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.

[Lucrecia]

I saw on this site that they also have a drop down option to choose a smilie. What would be the code to put that in?

http://www.ffimpulse.com/forum/showt...?threadid=7900

[Sal Collaziano]

How exactly do you get the EMAIL and SIGNATURE feature in there? Is there simply something in the code you must turn on? Or is it a recent addition? When I installed this hack, I never saw these options anywhere. But now, I'm seeing them...

[rharbison]

Your members will love this one!

I installed it and traffic has probably doubled...

[Pabs]

I'm getting script errors after installing this hack.

It says this:


Line: 1388
Char: 63
Error: Unterminated String Constant
Code: 0

[N.B.]

Thanks, nice work

[BigJohnson]

Very great hack but having one problem here though. My checj message length button doesnt work and my smilies when i click on them dont work. What could be the prob? I am so lost i think it is something with the java or something i don't know so i diced to ask the professionals

Here is my Template for ReplyBox

<script language="javascript">
<!--
var postmaxchars = $postmaxchars;
function validate(theform) {
	if (theform.message.value=="") {
		alert("Please complete the message field.");
		return false; }
	if (postmaxchars != 0) {
		if (theform.message.value.length > $postmaxchars) {
			alert("Your message is too long.\n\nReduce your message to $postmaxchars characters.\nIt is currently "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long.");
			return false; }
		else { return true; }
	} else { return true; }
}
function checklength(theform) {
	if (postmaxchars != 0) { message = "\nThe maximum permitted length is $postmaxchars characters."; }
	else { message = ""; }
	alert("Your message is "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long."+message);
}
//-->
</script>

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="newreply.php" name="vbform" method="post" onSubmit="return validate(this)">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="postreply">
<input type="hidden" name="threadid" value="$threadid">
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="iconid" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="parseurl" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="email" value="$emailbox">
<input type="hidden" name="disablesmilies" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="closethread" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenreply" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="rating" value="0">
<script language="Javascript" src="vbcode.js"></script>
<script language="Javascript" src="vbcode_language.js"></script>

<tr>
	<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" colspan="2"><normalfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}" class="thtcolor"><b>Post Reply</b></normalfont></td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" valign="top" nowrap><normalfont><b>Your Reply:</b></normalfont></td>
	<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}">
		<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
		<tr valign="top">
			<td><textarea name="message" rows="7" cols="$textareacols" wrap="virtual" tabindex="1"></textarea><br>
			<smallfont><a href="javascript:checklength(document.vbform);">[check message length]</a></smallfont></td>
        	<td nowrap valign="bottom"><smallfont>
        	  <input type="checkbox" name="email" value="yes" $emailchecked> Subscribe to thread<br>
        	  <input type="checkbox" name="signature" value="yes" $signaturechecked> Show signature<br>
        	  <br> </smallfont></td>
		</tr>
		</table>
	</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>

<br>

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
<tr>
	<td align="center"><normalfont>
	<input type="submit" class="bginput" name="submit" value="Submit Reply" accesskey="s" tabindex="2">
	<input type="reset" class="bginput" name="reset" value="Reset Form" accesskey="r" tabindex="3">
<input type="submit" class="bginput" name="preview" value="Preview Reply" accesskey="p" tabindex="4">
	</normalfont></td>
</tr>
</table>

</form>

Please help thanks so much. I took out the smilies just for now because they were causing to much hassle. thanks.

[mentalblocks]

just tried to install this. Didn't work. I'm not sure on the #3 in the instructions,

I've put $replybox into the template just as that. Does it need to be in {} or some other syntatic supports?

[BigJohnson]

Please help. If i cant get the smilies to work then i dont think I am going to keep this hack then. Please help i really enjoy this feature.

[RobP]

This hack worked with vb version 2.2.5 but after we upgraded to 2.2.6 this has now stopped working, the code is in place where it should, the reply box doesn't appear

[BigJohnson]

^^^BUMP^^^