"Attach Picture" add-on for quick reply box...

This template mod lets you attach images in the "quick reply box".

This one has been bugging me for a long time so I did it this morning. It doesn't qualify as a hack since it's only a template modification but it's a highly functional template mod and your users will love you for it.

You must have already installed Chen's Quicky Reply Box to utilize this template mod. Look here for his hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=34597

Below is the code that get's inserted into the "showthread_replybox" template that you add for the quick reply box...

this one is real simple...

look for this line:

PHP Code:

<td bgcolor="#DFDFDF"  valign="top" nowrap><normalfont><b>Your Reply:</b></normalfont></td> 


and replace it with this line:

PHP Code:

<td bgcolor="#DFDFDF"  valign="top" nowrap><normalfont><b>Your Reply:</b></normalfont><BR>
<smallfont>Attach file:&nbsp;<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="$maxattachsize_temp">
<input type="file" class="bginput" name="attachment"><br>
Max size: $maxattachsize bytes&nbsp | &nbsp;Valid types: $attachextensions</smallfont></td> 


ps: #DFDFDF should be replaced by 'secondaltcolor' in curly braces


viola! - you're done!

[Dean C]

Nice mod

Regards

- miSt

[flup]

Can;t find the line your pointing add, i actuallu cant find YOUR REPLY in my showtread_thing :P

I also search "manually"

[jeffj]

hey flup... you can't find the line because vb won't let me post the line exactly as it appears. It will not let me post
{ secondaltcolor } (without spaces). It keeps changing it.

[Tony G]

Nice mod, doesn't make it a quick reply though if you have all the options on the reply page on the quick reply.

[corsacrazy]

looks good on my qr !

[Tony G]

Wow thats one feature-full 'quick' reply.

[corsacrazy]

lol i nor members can b botherd to load up the reply form, so i just incorporated it all plus more

[jjj0923]

Originally posted by corsacrazy
lol i nor members can b botherd to load up the reply form, so i just incorporated it all plus more

I'm with you! my members hardly ever use the separate reply screen. They always use the qr box and nor they love it.

[Tony G]

Thing is to get them to use it you make the quick reply box like it is here, only the typing box. Adding all those features on quick reply make new reply useless. But with extra options on the new reply screen not able on the quick reply make it somewhat useful.

[jjj0923]

Lod Dexter...your argument is without merit because they are "features" of the quick reply box, not requirements.

The entire idea for the box to begin with (read original post) is to save people from having to click through to another screen, load another php module, etc.

The quick reply box with or without lots of extra features is still a quick reply box. If you choose to limit your forum members to not being able to access additional features in the quick reply box then that's your business. You should do what I do on my forums and conduct polls to see what features the members like and and they don't like. I have taken features off my forum because my forum members "poo poo'd " them. To summarily decide what's best for your forum members without asking them...the people that make your forum what it is; is a disservice to your forum members.




ps: maybe new reply - SHOULD be useless.

[Brad]

I limit mine to smilies cause i think all the options on the quick reply box look ugly. heres what mine currently looks like (scroll to the bottom )

http://www.kousetsu.net/forums/showt...&threadid=1465

[Smoothie]

Originally posted by jjj0923
Lod Dexter...your argument is without merit because they are "features" of the quick reply box, not requirements.

The entire idea for the box to begin with (read original post) is to save people from having to click through to another screen, load another php module, etc.

The quick reply box with or without lots of extra features is still a quick reply box. If you choose to limit your forum members to not being able to access additional features in the quick reply box then that's your business. You should do what I do on my forums and conduct polls to see what features the members like and and they don't like. I have taken features off my forum because my forum members "poo poo'd " them. To summarily decide what's best for your forum members without asking them...the people that make your forum what it is; is a disservice to your forum members.




ps: maybe new reply - SHOULD be useless.

Exactly my opinion. Here's a screen of my QRB

[Tony G]

It doesn't look attractive. Thats why a whole new page was made for replies. Something simple like whats here on vB.org doesn't look half bad but clogging up your topic pages with all those features on the same page doesn't look right.

Thats why I simplify it as much as possible, and make users use reply when they want to see extra features. Don't like to see a default page go to waste. And forums looking good is a top priority for me.

[jjj0923]

I thought some of you might to look at the results of my efforts. I added code to showthread and I cycle through 10 different backgrounds in the quick reply box...