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.

[AlexisPPP]

just testing to see how this works

[AlexisPPP]

interesting

[Boss-Hog]

Sorry if this has been posted already but I don't have the patience to read through 35 pages. I am running version 2.3.4 and have implemented this hack, along with the smilie addon. The feature works fine but when members use the quick reply box, it does not increment their post count by one. I have double checked to make sure I have the code exactly as it should be, and it appears that I do. How can I make the user's post count add one when he or she uses the quick reply box, much like the reply button will (and still successfully does) do? Thanks!

[mikester]

Originally Posted by tHe Rk

Did you put:

$clickysmilies = getclickysmilies();

in twice on showthread.php?

" $textareacols = gettextareawidth(); "shows up twice in the script (for newer vB versions anyway). You have to add "$clickysmilies = getclickysmilies(); " after both of the times its in the script. Hope that helps, it worked for me on 2.3.4

OK, been trying to get this going on the board I help admin and with no luck. I have tried the smilies hack posted here, but without success. I am under the impression I am running 2.3.4 from this line at the top of the cp:

Control Panel (Version 2.3.4)

But when I looked for $textareacols in showthread.php, I only found it once:

amd:/home/mlc/portal/smilies # cat showthread.php | grep textareacols
        $textareacols = gettextareawidth();
amd:/home/mlc/portal/smilies #

This board was upgraded from an older version of vB, so maybe it is in limbo and neither hack will work?

I got the quick reply box going using the hack for 2.3.2, and that went smoothly. When I make the change to showthread.php outlined in the smilies hack I just get a blank page when I try to view threads. Any ideas?.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

[Rickk]

I might be posting this again, but I browsed like every other page searching quickly for it (out of 91 pages, thats a lot of looking!) But I couldn't find it...

Anyway...
Is there a way to add the posticons to the QuickReply? Perhaps in a little scrollable frame (I wish)? Maybe a drop down menu?

Thanks in advance!!

(Edit, was this really my first post? Wow. I've been here forever but never posted...)

[PDIDDY]

hOW DO i MAKE THIS QUICK REPLY BOX APPEAR AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH THREAD AND NOT ON TOP?

[Zachery]

USE VB3!

lol, the template edits have changed, there should be a post detaling this somewhere.

[John Diver]

Could someone please tell me what I have to do so the smilie box is optional, or so you can expand it just when needed using javascript?
I done a search in the topic but cant find the answer and went through a load of pages, but theres far too many to go through.

Hope someone can help

Thanks
John

[ry@n]

guess no one has asked about this in 2.3.5 have they?

can't seem to get it to work.

[Randomlove]

it does work with me on 2.3.5