Quick Edit! -Edit posts directly from within the thread itself

This hack will allow your users to edit their posts without having to load the editpost page..

How it works: In the bottom right-hand corner of all your posts will be a small Quick Edit icon (users will only see it in posts which belong to them).. When you click it a text box will drop down below your post allowing you to edit it instantly in the thread itself.

This will save you a lot of time when fixing those spelling mistakes, typos, or broken links. It should also help save on bandwidth since your users will no longer need to load the editpost page.

Very easy to install.. 2 file edits, 2 template edits, and 1 template to add.

Known bug: Quick Edit will NOT work with Opera web browsers. Those who use Opera simply won't see the option to quick edit (icon will be invisible when viewed in that browser). It'll work fine in other browsers such as IE or firefox.

Support: Due to work my time is limited as of late so this hack is released AS IS with no support. However, several questions have already been answered in this thread.

Update (7-25-04): Fixed a minor bug with the QE window moving further to the left with each click in mozilla/firefox browsers. To update simply replace your showthread_quickedit template with the new one. Thanks to sv1cec for this bug fix.

Add Ons:
*Show the "delete post" option for those who have permission in the Quick Edit form (also adds edit reason). (by sv1cec)
*Show the "edit reason" field in the Quick Edit form. (Requested by Convergys)
*Alternate Quickedit icon image (by ryancooper)
*Another alternate Quickedit icon (by sv1cec)
*Another alternate Quickedit icon (by charlesk)
*Yet another alternate Quickedit icon (by iguanairs)
*Give users the option to disable quick edit in the usercp (by pco)



If you find this hack useful please click the install button.

Screenshot attached:

[zetetic]

Just found another little bug, Evil.

Quick editing posts produces this in the action column of the moderator log:

Post edited by 3 on at .

[sketch42]

is it possible to add bbcode buttons to the quick edit?

[EvilLS1]

Originally Posted by tmhall

Just found another little bug, Evil.

Quick editing posts produces this in the action column of the moderator log:

Post edited by 3 on at .

Do you by chance have it set so that mods can edit other user's posts with quick edit? If so, thats why.

[EvilLS1]

Originally Posted by sketch42

is it possible to add bbcode buttons to the quick edit?

I think so. You'd just need to copy the necessary code from the editpost template and put it in the showthread_quickedit template. Should be really easy.

[zetetic]

Originally Posted by EvilLS1

Do you by chance have it set so that mods can edit other user's posts with quick edit? If so, thats why.

No, but admins do so I guess that's where the problem was coming from. Is there a way I can fix it to record properly for admin edits?

[EvilLS1]

Originally Posted by tmhall

No, but admins do so I guess that's where the problem was coming from. Is there a way I can fix it to record properly for admin edits?

I'm not really sure as I don't use the version which allows admins to edit all posts.. But you could try adding this to the showthread_quickedit template:
<phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]" 2="$date" 3="$time">$vbphrase['post_edited_by_x_on_y_at_z']</phrase>

[PhoenixBB]

Originally Posted by EvilLS1

PhoenixBB,
Are you sure that you have "do not subscribe" selected in your User CP under options for Default Thread Subscription Mode? The reason I ask is because I just checked again on my site and its not doing that. As long as that line of code is removed and you're using the exact template from the first post of this thread there's no reason it should add the subscription.

Hi,

Actually I don't have those Options. Because I've turned off email on the board (got too many bounced mails, people forget to empty their boxes or give fake addies) I removed those parts from the templates. For the subscription folder it now just shows options to Move or Delete. If I'd left the email ones in I'd have been hassled to turn it on again.

The posting templates, including Quick Edit, have references to subscriptions totally removed, and if they want to subscribe to a threa/forum they do it via the links. I would have left the 'do not subscribe' in if there had also been a 'subscribe', but the other Options were relating to email, so just having 'do not subscribe' when posting would not have been helpful if they were thinking of subscribing. IYSWIM!

New Registrations are set to not automatically subscribe (via VB Options) so nowhere are there any Options to automatically subscribe if one hasn't used the option in Quick Links.

There are only a few of us registered on the test board and for everyone any thread they reply to or start shows up in their UserCP even though it shouldn't. In post 6 on this thread, someone had something similar and you suggested the email 'update 9999' thing would stop it. Tried that, no joy. You are saying now that to stop it you should have that line removed which confused me, as without it this was still happening. But either way it's still happening.

My only concern here is for the many people who never go into UserCP, so will never get to empty things, it could get really full in there, and they won't be able to differentiate between threads they have really subscribed to, via the Forum Tools, and ones they have no interest in even though they posted in them.

[EvilLS1]

PhoenixBB,
If you'll give me a link to your forum and set me up a test user account I'll check it out for you. It doesn't do that on either of my forums so I can't check it there.

[350Chevy]

Nice hack Evil! Clicking install..

[EvilLS1]

Thanks 350.