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.

[peterjun]

How do I alow unregistered/guests to use the quick response box?

They have permission to post, and the box shows up for them, but when they try to post, I get an error message: "You did not specify a username for your post"

Is there any way to have the reply box just default to unregistered when the user is not logged in/guest?

Thanks so much!

[peterjun]

How do I alow unregistered/guests to use the quick response box?

They have permission to post, and the box shows up for them, but when they try to post, I get an error message: "You did not specify a username for your post"

Is there any way to have the reply box just default to unregistered when the user is not logged in/guest?

Thanks so much!

[mmmender]

has anyone tested this in 2.2.9 or 2.3? i can't get it to work but i really want to!!!

[Reno]

Thanks for telling me about the experience mmmender. I was about to try myself also on vB 2.3.

So, anyone tried this on 2.3 and does it work (except mmmender)?

[WEForums]

It works for vB 2.3.0. No errors.

What error are you receiving?

[Reno]

No. I don't get any errors. Just checking to see if there are errors or not. Thanks WEForums.

[EDIT] I CAN'T FIND THIS!!! :alien:

3. In the "showthread" template add $replybox right after the following:
// ##################################################
<!-- first unread and next/prev -->
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="95%" align="center">
<tr>
<td><smallfont>$pagenav&nbsp;</smallfont></td>
<td align="right"><smallfont>
<img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/prev.gif" alt="" border="0">
<a href="showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$threadid&goto=nextoldest">Last Thread</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$threadid&goto=nextnewest">Next Thread</a>
<img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/next.gif" alt="" border="0">
</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- first unread and next/prev -->
// ##################################################

[SVTBlackLight01]

I tried using the smilie box with this and didn't like the way it affected the display of the QRB or how it took longer to load the page.

To solve this problem and still enable the use of smilies, I just added a link similar to the "get more" in the normal reply.

If anybody is interested, in the showthread_replybox template replace:

<td bgcolor="{ secondaltcolor}" valign="top" nowrap><normalfont><b>Your Reply:</b></normalfont></td>

with:

<td bgcolor="{ secondaltcolor}" valign="top" nowrap><normalfont><b>Your Reply:</b><br><br>[<a href="javascriptpensmiliewindow(240,280,'')">Get Smilies</a>]</normalfont></td>

[RDX1]

I'm not gonna read through all the pages, but in my forums i keep getting this error in 2.3.0 (Both of my forums get it)

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare stripslashesarray() (previously declared in /home/*******/public_html/talk/global.php:31)

[Boofo]

Today at 03:29 AM SVTBlackLight01 said this in Post #947
I tried using the smilie box with this and didn't like the way it affected the display of the QRB.

To solve this problem and still enable the use of smilies, I just added a link similar to the "get more" in the normal reply.

If anybody is interested, in the showthread_replybox template replace:

<td bgcolor="{ secondaltcolor}" valign="top" nowrap><normalfont><b>Your Reply:</b></normalfont></td>

with:

<td bgcolor="{ secondaltcolor}" valign="top" nowrap><normalfont><b>Your Reply:</b><br><br>[<a href="javascriptpensmiliewindow(240,280,'')">Get Smilies</a>]</normalfont></td>

I couldn't get this to work. I joined the java and script and still it wouldn't work. You have an extra quote in your code, too.

[Reno]

Does the following really exist in vB 2.3?

// ##################################################
<!-- first unread and next/prev -->
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="95%" align="center">
<tr>
<td><smallfont>$pagenav </smallfont></td>
<td align="right"><smallfont>
<img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/prev.gif" alt="" border="0">
<a href="showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$threadid&goto=nextoldest">Last Thread</a>

<a href="showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$threadid&goto=nextnewest">Next Thread</a>
<img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/next.gif" alt="" border="0">
</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- first unread and next/prev -->
// ##################################################