[Release] - Mist's Hackless Quick Reply

Author - Mist (me)

Description - This adds a quick reply box to the bottom of every page you are on without any file hacking. All it requires is one template modification.

Screenshot - Attached in next post.

Installation File -

[RAGE-UAE]

Sweetness!! this thing roX

[MentaL]

i dont like it o_O..

[Dean C]

Hehe why not ? and thanks

[neocorteqz]

small question, i asked this in the other thread.. Can this be made to be forum Specific? I only want specific Forums on the Board to be able to utilize this. I have a Spam forum so I can keep the Spam outta the other forums. I just want to utilize it in that forum, and maybe one or two others. Thanks.

This is a good mod IMO. and saves the file hacking, and possible pains of rehacking them if you make a mistake. Which I constantly do

[Dean C]

^^ This can be done either with the logician's dynamic templates hack or by hacking

- miSt

[MentaL]

04-11-03 at 05:09 PM Mist said this in Post #63
Hehe why not ? and thanks

if u ask me.. it should inc an option in control panel to have it turned on or off

just my idea...

[Dean C]

Yes but that requires hacking my friend - and this is a template modification

- miSt

[MentaL]

anyone can modify a template a hack requires skill.. skill which i dont posses.. but im sure someone will make it since ive said it

[Dean C]

Yes but like i said - for that you should go to the hacked version of the quick reply thread

[Brad]

04-16-03 at 12:31 AM User_001 said this in Post #64
small question, i asked this in the other thread.. Can this be made to be forum Specific? I only want specific Forums on the Board to be able to utilize this. I have a Spam forum so I can keep the Spam outta the other forums. I just want to utilize it in that forum, and maybe one or two others. Thanks.

This is a good mod IMO. and saves the file hacking, and possible pains of rehacking them if you make a mistake. Which I constantly do

This sould work.

Stick this in the phpinclude: (edit the forumids part)

PHP Code:

if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'showthread.php') != false)
{
$textareacols = gettextareawidth();
$forumids = "1"; // forum ids quick reply will show in, seprate with comma's
if ($forumids==$forumid) {
eval("\$quickreply = \"".gettemplate("mist_quickreply")."\";");
} else { 
$quickreply = "";
}
} 


In the showthread template find:

<!-- first unread and next/prev -->
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="95%"  align="center">
<tr>
	<td><smallfont>$pagenav&nbsp;</smallfont></td>
	<td align="right"><smallfont>
	<img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/prev.gif" alt="" border="0">
	<a href="showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$threadid&goto=nextoldest">Last Thread</a>
	&nbsp;
	<a href="showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$threadid&goto=nextnewest">Next Thread</a>
	<img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/next.gif" alt="" border="0">
	</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- first unread and next/prev -->

Below that add:

$quickreply

Make a new template named mist_quickreply and populate it with:

<! -- hackless quick reply -->

<br />
<script language="javascript">
<!--
var postmaxchars = $postmaxchars;
function validate(theform) {
	if (theform.message.value=="") {
		alert("Please complete the message field.");
		return false; }
	if (postmaxchars != 0) {
		if (theform.message.value.length > $postmaxchars) {
			alert("Your message is too long.\n\nReduce your message to $postmaxchars characters.\nIt is currently "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long.");
			return false; }
		else { return true; }
	} else { return true; }
}
function checklength(theform) {
	if (postmaxchars != 0) { message = "\nThe maximum permitted length is $postmaxchars characters."; }
	else { message = ""; }
	alert("Your message is "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long."+message);
}
//-->
</script>


<table width="{contenttablewidth}" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="{tablebordercolor}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center" >
<tr>
<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" colspan="2">
<normalfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Post Reply:</b></normalfont>
</td>
</tr>


<tr valign="top">
<td width="20%" bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}">
<normalfont color="{pagetextcolor}"><b>Your Reply:</b></normalfont>
</td>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" width="80%">

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="newreply.php" name="quickreply" method="post" onSubmit="return validate(this)">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="postreply">
<input type="hidden" name="threadid" value="$threadid">
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="iconid" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="parseurl" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="email" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="disablesmilies" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="closethread" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenreply" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="signature" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="rating" value="0">
<textarea name="message" rows="7" cols="$textareacols" wrap="virtual" tabindex="1"></textarea>

<br />
<input type="submit" class="bginput" name="submit" value="Submit Reply" accesskey="s" tabindex="2">
	<input type="reset" class="bginput" name="reset" value="Reset Form" accesskey="r" tabindex="3">
<br />
<smallfont><a href="javascript:checklength(document.quickreply);">[check message length]</a></smallfont>
</form>


</td>

</tr>

</table>
<! -- /hackless quick reply -->

Note: This will add one query to forums that use quick reply (on showthread.php), this is because i put it in a template. You can avoid the query by hacking showthread.php or hard coding the template into phpinclude (something i dident want to do because of overhead). if you want to hack:

open showthread.php

Find:

showthread

Replace with:

showthread,mist_quickreply