Reason for post edit

I won't talk too much, it's been a very very long day.

This hacks lets your users specify the reason for editing their post.
If you ever worked with CVS (and alike), you can write the reason you edited the file.
I thought it'd be cool to have the same thing here.

So when you edit a post, you'll see a text box at the bottom, for you to enter the reason for editing the post.
That's instead of the ridiculous:
Just fixing a type --Chen.
messages at the bottom of the post.
If you leave the box empty, nothing will be displayed.

This is installed here, so if you want a demo just edit one of your posts here.
(don't forget to wait 2 minutes before editing, that's the setting here)

Download the installed (attached), upload to your admin folder and run from your browser.
Most is automatic, but you need to edit 2 files and 2 templates (1 edit each).

That's it, feedback!

[Mone']

working great on 2.2.6

testing.............

[Kyle_TX]

I'm having the same problem on my boards. I installed it and even checked over it all several times and it won't show the reason for edit in the posts. I can put in a reason when I edit.. that shows up fine. But once I submit, it's not in the post. I'm going to try uninstalling it and re-installing and see if that helps.

[Kyle_TX]

ok, That fixed it. For some reason, there was an error the first time I installed it. It didn't do everything that it was suppose to do. All I did was uninstall, reinstall and it worked. I didn't even have to edit anything.

Great hack!

[Crunch]

only hack i havent been able to install. how strange. maybe its 2.2.6?

[Boofo]

Mine was working fine already but I tried this to see what it would do and it is great! I can leave the "show edited by" turned off for the Admin and it will still show the "edited by and reason" ONLY if I put in a reason. If I do not put in a reason, the edited by never shows up. This is great for correcting spelling errors or minor stuff and not having to keep turning it on and off for the Admin to get the edit reason to show. Thanks a lot!

(Works great on vb 2.2.5 by the way)

Originally posted by w00t-0wner
in editpost.php replace


with



now the reason and time of edit _always_ shows up when a reason is given.

tested on vb 2.2.2

[Crunch]

ahh i know what it is. the template was never added. what is the info I put in there?

[FleaBag]

Seems to be working well on 2.2.6.

[Admin]

Ahhhh!!!!!

[FleaBag]

Ahhhh? LOL...

[Massiel]

Does this hack work with version 2.2.2? Pretty cool Firefly!