Show Thread Enhancements - Nested Quotes

UPDATE 12/7/06: The hack is updated with CoreIssue's code edit mentioned in the posts. It's more simple and you only add one line to it. Tested on vb3.6.4 so it now works fine!

Difficulty: Extremely Easy
Time take to install: 15 seconds

Version Info
v1.01 Hack updated with CoreIssue simple file edit. Should work with all version of vb now.
v1.0 Initial Release

I made a suggestion on vb.com but it seems like the developers are not interested. But then a nice member rossco2005 helped me out since we both like the idea to have nested quote feature in our boards WHEN we click on the Quote button. Nested quotes are used in phpbb and IB forums. Nested quotes are used in VB's private message area, but for some reason they wont work for the forums.

So let me show you an example on how this works. Let say i made this post.

------Post #1------
There are 11 planets in our solar system
-------------------

And if someone (let say Bot) click on the Quote button and submit a new post it should turn out like this

------Post #2------

Originally Posted by XtAzY

There are 11 planets in our solar system

Welcome!
--------------------

But if another person (let say Bot1) hit the quote button for that previous post it will return this

------Post #3------

Originally Posted by Bot

No there are 20

You guys are both rong idiots!
--------------------

But instead we want it to turn like this when we click on the quote button

------Post #3-------

Originally Posted by Bot

No there are 20

You guys are both wrong idiots!
--------------------

Get the picture?

So here is the code modification on how to put nested quotes on your forums.

Files to edit: functions.php

In file functions.php, find:

function strip_quotes($text)
{
        $lowertext = strtolower($text);

Replace with:

function strip_quotes($text)
{
        return $text;
        $lowertext = strtolower($text);

Easy as cake! Go thank CoreIssue for this easy hack =]

Upgrading from 1.0 to 1.01
Replace the original functions.php from vb and then perform the edits.

Anyways i hope this is useful for peeps who need nest quotes. If someone can make it more advanced, like into a product or plugin, go ahead =]. I was hoping this can be built into the vb admin panel and lets u control how many nested quotes are allow per post, so that u dunt need to edit the file every upgrade or edit the file whenever u want to change the amount of nested quotes.

[Skedoozy]

I installed it. Would really like to see it work with more than 2 quotes as well. I set mine to 6 and still just get 2. :/

[Viper007Bond]

Thanks so much for this mod! Exactly what I've been looking for!

[Skedoozy]

X, you there?

[baronvonwalz]

You know, you can do it alot easier than this.

Find this:

function strip_quotes($text)
{

And follow it with

return text;

So it looks like

function strip_quotes($text)
{return text;

[CoreIssue]

Originally Posted by baronvonwalz

You know, you can do it alot easier than this.

Find this:

function strip_quotes($text)
{

And follow it with

return text;

So it looks like

function strip_quotes($text)
{return text;

Doesn't work on 3.6.4

You quote a post and all it says is

text

[baronvonwalz]

Erm, I'm sorry, I did that wrong.

It should be.

function strip_quotes($text)
{return $text;

[CoreIssue]

Originally Posted by baronvonwalz

Erm, I'm sorry, I did that wrong.

It should be.

function strip_quotes($text)
{return $text;

No sweat. We all miss it a bit at times.

That works. Thanks!

But for clarity of others

Find
function strip_quotes($text)
{

Replace with
function strip_quotes($text)
{return text;

Leaving that { will give a parse error.

Again, thanks! You do good work!

I only tried this on 3.6.4

[Nixonian]

Originally Posted by CoreIssue

No sweat. We all miss it a bit at times.

That works. Thanks!

But for clarity of others
....

And to be really, really sure, don't omit the '$'
So change

PHP Code:

function strip_quotes($text)
{ 


to

PHP Code:

function strip_quotes($text)
{return $text; 


And yes, thanks to that, nested quotes work perfectly again. As simple as that
Also tested on 3.6.4

[CoreIssue]

Thanks! Trying to help I just created another issue!

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by Nixonian

And to be really, really sure, don't omit the '$'
So change

PHP Code:

function strip_quotes($text)
{ 


to

PHP Code:

function strip_quotes($text)
{return $text; 


And yes, thanks to that, nested quotes work perfectly again. As simple as that
Also tested on 3.6.4

Many thanks. works like a charm