Collapsable Quotes

As requested in this thread

Collapsable Quote Mod

What does it do?
==================
Sometimes, when others post lots of quotes, or very long ones, you might get the wish to hide the quoted text and only read the new posted message.
Now you can
This little mod makes the quotes collapsable, like the categories on the forumhome or other areas of vBulletin.


Installation
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To apply this go to:
AdminCP -> Style Manager -> Edit templates -> "BB Code Layout Templates" group -> Template: "bbcode_quote"

Edit that template, cut out (=delete) EVERYTHING that's in there and paste this back in:

<div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px; <if condition="$show['iewidthfix']">width: 100%;</if>">
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">

<if condition="$show[quoteid]=$show[quoteid] + 1 + $vbulletin->userinfo[lastactivity]"></if>

  <tr>
    <td class="tcat">
      <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('quote_$show[quoteid]')"><img 

id="collapseimg_quote_$show[quoteid]" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat{$collapseimg_forumid}.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
      <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">
        <a href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('quote_$show[quoteid]')">$vbphrase[quote]
        <if condition="$show['username']">($username)</if>: <em>(click to expand/collapse)</em></a>
      </div>
    </td>
  </tr>

<tbody id="collapseobj_quote_$show[quoteid]" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">
  <tr>
    <td class="alt2" style="border:1px inset">
      <if condition="$show['username']">
        <div><phrase 1="$username">$vbphrase[originally_posted_by_x]</phrase></div>
        <div style="font-style:italic">$message</div>
      <else />
        $message
      </if>
    </td>
  </tr>
</tbody>


</table>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript"> <!--
toggle_collapse('quote_$show[quoteid]');
--> </script>

Hit "SAVE" and you're done


*** If you are one of the lucky folks that have the "Template Manager" installed: ***
You can simply take the template .XML also supplied as download and import it via the template manager -> even faster and more easy done
(you might have to check "overwrite templates" when importing)


What else?
============
By default this collapsable quotes start up collapsed!
So if a user wants to read the quoted text he has to uncollapse it.

If you want it the other way round, users can collapse quotes they do not want to waste space for the moment:
Remove (or leave out at install) the last three lines of the template:

<script type="text/javascript"> <!--
toggle_collapse('quote_$show[quoteid]');
--> </script>

If that part is removed/left out all quotes start up uncollapsed and visible.


That's it.

Have fun

[TosaInu]

Originally Posted by Gizmo999

Thank you for explaining that better than I could.

That would be the first time Gizmo999 English is not my native language.

[Gizmo999]

Originally Posted by TosaInu

That would be the first time Gizmo999 English is not my native language.

its meant to be mine but I'm from the far north, almost into Scotland so my dialect is different

[Hellcat]

I might have an idea why this happens....
I'll look into this tonight and keep you posted!

[Zia]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

I might have an idea why this happens....
I'll look into this tonight and keep you posted!

thankx man...we are waiting.....
plz give a thought about ignore image in quote...


thnx

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by Zia

thankx man...we are waiting.....
plz give a thought about ignore image in quote...

thnx

You want [img] tags in quotes striped?
Or (IMO better) converted to [url] tags?

Hmm.... that would be a different thing, but should be possible to do pretty easy with a plugin at the right hook....

[high]* Hellcat thinks[/high]

[Zia]

thnx man...
did u figured out the probs..describe last post..

quote-inside a quote it showd the "paid subscriber link" ?

: give a deep deep think...
[high]* Zia offers hellcat a chilled bear & a cigar...[/high]

[Hellcat]

No clue where a subscription link could come from.

But I (hopfully) solved the "Later quote collapses/expands quote from earlier post" problem.

Replace this line:

<if condition="$show[quoteid]=$show[quoteid]+1"></if>

with this one:

<if condition="$show[quoteid]=$show[quoteid] + 1 + $vbulletin->userinfo[lastactivity]"></if>

Instsructions and attachments have already been updated, hopfully that does the trick, let me know if there are still issues

[Gizmo999]

Sorry

I applied the code change but its still the same only now the first quote opens "expanded" and has same problem - subsequent quotes are "expanded" clicking collapse closes the very first one

Thanks for the time and effort on this

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by Gizmo999

Sorry

I applied the code change but its still the same only now the first quote opens "expanded" and has same problem - subsequent quotes are "expanded" clicking collapse closes the very first one

Thanks for the time and effort on this

That might most likely be caused by vB's caching....
I experienced that myself during my experiments and didn't find a way (yet) to counteract it.

Try this:
On a post that seems to "ignore" the last modification to the template, edit and save that post and try again - should work now.

Try to post some some quote-posts in a test thread and look if everythings works there.
If it does -> it's the vB cache still pulling the old version of the template.

That cache is EVIL!
I disabled it on my boards....

[Gizmo999]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

That might most likely be caused by vB's caching....
I experienced that myself during my experiments and didn't find a way (yet) to counteract it.

I disabled it on my boards....

Is that the post caching in admin Cp>server settings/optimisation ?? sorry, I'm new to all this