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.

[-=dm=-]

FireFly thanx again for cool hack working fine.
for the smillies

$clickysmilies

where should I add this, can u please explain?

thanx

[Gutspiller]

FireFly a few of my users would like quote buttons on it. How exactly would I make two quote buttons under the message field? I was thinking even just two text buttons under the message field right next to the "[check message length]" button. All they need to do is one put the [ quote] tag in and the other put the [ /quote] tag in. Unless you can do something fancier, this is all I require. Can you please add this to it?

Thanks for any help you can provide. I love the hack, It would be nice to have colaspable tables that users could contract or expand that had icons and that saved their settings, but that would take more than 4 minutes.

[Psychdrone]

hmmmm this is pretty neat indeed!

Yet are there any other people out there with me, that think this will increase spam, as how easy it is to reply?

thats probaly why I wouldn't install it, but none the less great hack chen!

[Martin CX]

Very nice twist on the original hack (which really wasn't anything but a template edit), Firefly! I've installed it w/o any problems, but I've added a preview button. "Preview is good... preview is ...good".

[epi]

if you want to add the smiles do what firefly said and then find
this in quick reply templete
Your Reply:</b></normalfont></td>

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------change to
Your Reply:</b></normalfont><p>$clickysmilies</td>

[Twig Deez]

excellent.

[Jakeman]

ugh! i may have to install this one. i didn't want to butcher my forums any more...

[fonzerelli_79]

this is a very quick reply

[fonzerelli_79]

for anyone who added the smilies to the side of the replybox
i found that changing the number or rows in the textarea from 7 to 15 makes it look a lot better

also, the right is crying for the most popular vbcode options ie quote, img etc

[Parker Clack]

Another great hack!

Parker

[snyx]

this is awesome man, I saw the hack awhile from someone else back but it wasnt complete, or somthing.... oh well, looks great, I plan to install it asap.

[larryz]

If you want the Quicky Reply Box to not appear when the thread is closed, you can simply wrap an if statement around it.

ORIGINAL:

if (($bbuserinfo['userid']!=$thread['postuserid']) and (!$getperms['canviewothers'] or !$getperms['canreplyothers'])) {
        $replybox='';
} elseif (!$getperms['canview'] or (!$getperms['canreplyown'] and $bbuserinfo['userid']==$thread['postuserid'])) {
        $replybox='';
} else {
        $textareacols = gettextareawidth();
        eval("\$replybox = \"".gettemplate('showthread_replybox')."\";");
}

New:

if ($thread[open]) {
     if (($bbuserinfo['userid']!=$thread['postuserid']) and (!$getperms['canviewothers'] or !$getperms['canreplyothers'])) {
             $replybox='';
     } elseif (!$getperms['canview'] or (!$getperms['canreplyown'] and $bbuserinfo['userid']==$thread['postuserid'])) {
             $replybox='';
     } else {
             $textareacols = gettextareawidth();
             eval("\$replybox = \"".gettemplate('showthread_replybox')."\";");
     }
}

[SWFans.net]

Worked great larryz. Thanks.

[MikeWarner]

nice - I'll install this later!

[TurboFC3S]

Great hack, and so easy! Works perfect for me ...