Hack to disable quotes in pm?

[NietzscheKid]

Hello

is there a posssibility to completely get rid of the automatical quotes that appear when you pm someone? When you reply to someone a couple of times, the nested quotes mess up my template. So, I am basically looking for a hack where when you respond to a pm the reply field does not take over the message in form of a quote.

[NietzscheKid]

Damn. I posted it in the wrong forum. I am using vb3 and posted in vb2. Sorry. Can someone please move this? I am sorry for the trouble.

[Boofo]

There are a couple of ways to do this. I prefer the Xenon way, through a file edit, but it can also be done by a template edit. The file edit is as follows:

In private.php

Find:

PHP Code:

    // allow quotes to remain with an optional request variable
    // this will fix a problem with forwarded PMs and replying to them
    if ($_REQUEST['stripquote']) 


REPLACE it with:

PHP Code:

    // allow quotes to remain with an optional request variable
    // this will fix a problem with forwarded PMs and replying to them
    if (true OR $_REQUEST['stripquote']) 


[NietzscheKid]

Thanks for your fast reply boofo.

But I am afraid this does not work for me. And I do not know why?

I still get the reply with quote only option. I tested this on my test forum but it does not seem to work eventhough I replaced the code as you described.

[Boofo]

Try this:

In the postbit and/or postbit_legacy template, find:

<if condition="$post['replylink']">
<a href="$post[replylink]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/reply_small.gif" alt="$vbphrase[reply_with_quote]" border="0" /></a>
</if>

Replace it with:

<if condition="$post['replylink']">
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'private'">
<a href="$post[replylink]&stripquote=1"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/reply_small.gif" alt="$vbphrase[reply_with_quote]" border="0" /></a>
<else />
<a href="$post[replylink]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/reply_small.gif" alt="$vbphrase[reply_with_quote]" border="0" /></a>
</if></if>

[NietzscheKid]

Actually I would be really happy if the pm quote system could work just like the post a reply function in normal threads where you just get the last quote and no nested quotes. Is this possible?

[NietzscheKid]

Duhh, Boofo!! You are brilliant!!

Of course the first hack works. I simply managed to login into my running site admin cp and wondered why it did not work in the test forum. LOL!!! Geeez. Talk about dumb users.

Thanks again boofo for the help. It works beautifully!

[lostgirl815]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Try this: (HTML code)

I know this is an old thread, but I had to thank you anyway. You have no idea how much I appreciate this code!

[Boofo]

Any time, young lady, any time.