Am I missing something obvious - how to print a single post?

[lemonadesoda]

I would like to be able to print a single post in a thread. But I don't see how to do this. In 3.x it was possible to click the post number and get just the individual post to display (showpost.php?#), and then you could print that view. But in 4.x if you click the post number you get showthread.php?# and the whole thread again, but not an individual post. I can't find a way to print off just one single post... Any help much appreciated.

On our board, users would find a print-post button much more useful than "multi-quote"! I guess everyone uses their boards in different ways.

[Lynne]

There is no showpost.php page in vB4 to show a single post. You will have to write one if you wish to show a single post to print out.

[lemonadesoda]

Oh, that is really bad news that showpost.php has been dropped. I would think it an obvious feature: to be able to print a specific post you are interested in.

[zackw]

Originally Posted by lemonadesoda

Oh, that is really bad news that showpost.php has been dropped. I would think it an obvious feature: to be able to print a specific post you are interested in.

You can print a thread with the printthread.php file.

At the end of your URL put this:

somesite.com/printthread.php?t=##threadID##

So perhaps it would look like /printthread.php?t=45487

That's all there is to it, a nicely formatted, printable view of the thread.

The pagination works by the global or user setting for posts-per-page. And sadly there isn't an "option" to make image attachments viewable. I'm working on that part. You'd have to customize the code to show every post and not have a limit.

Cheers