Remove Extra Quotes From PMs

Heres a quickie hack that will remove any extra quotes from PMs when you reply to them.

It will save you (and your users) time from deleting them yourself and also reduce the size of your PM Db

Example:

The first quote

becomes

The first quote

OK open up 'private.php' in your favourite editor then goto line 542, which should have:

PHP Code:

    eval("\$message[message] = \"".gettemplate("priv_reply",1,0)."\";");
  } else {
    $message = array();
  } 


and just above that place this

PHP Code:

    $message[message] = trim(preg_replace("~\[[b][/b]quote\](.*)\[/quote\]~si", "", $message[message])); 


Its as easy as that!

Enjoy!
Raz

[Boofo]

You really ought to try the disable codes sometime. That has got to be my favorite hacks of all time. Chen has it working here. It sure saves a lot of headaches and parsing problems.

Originally posted by Raz
Nah its fine, I've fixed the original post.

Just used a \\\\[ to get a \[

[Raz]

Originally posted by Logician
nice hack Raz.. it is small but useful

Yup, its one of those hacks that should have been included with VB in the first place.

[Raz]

Originally posted by Boofo
You really ought to try the disable codes sometime. That has got to be my favorite hacks of all time. Chen has it working here. It sure saves a lot of headaches and parsing problems.

It has nothing to do with BBCode, but the way it handles slashes (\)

[Boofo]

Yes, but it worked fine for Chen and I when we used it.

Originally posted by Raz
It has nothing to do with BBCode, but the way it handles slashes (\)

[Raz]

Chen used the [code]tag[/code]. The problem with slashes seems to be when using the [php]tag[/php].

[Admin]

Originally posted by Raz
Chen used the [code]tag[/code]. The problem with slashes seems to be when using the [php]tag[/php].

Yup, I noticed that as well and trying to fix that bug.

[Raz]

The problem may actually lay with the highlight_string() function.

Possibly doing a highlight_string(str_replace('\\', '\\\\', $data)) might fix it.

[Boofo]

You're right. I didn't try that. Strange that it would work fine for the code tags and not PHP.

Originally posted by Raz
Chen used the [code]tag[/code]. The problem with slashes seems to be when using the [php]tag[/php].

[Raz]

The only difference between those two 'quotes' is that the [php] tag makes use of the highlight_string().

Presumely its strips out any slashes it sees.

[Admin]

Let's see if I managed to fix this...

PHP Code:

$message[message] = trim(preg_replace("~\[quote\](.*)\[/quote\]~si", "", $message[message]));