Editpost preview

This is what the hack does: It let's you preview a message when you're editing it, you can only preview when you're posting or replying the way it is now:

It works on my testserver, but I've not tested on a 'live' forum, but it seems to be working allright...

Instructions

1 Backup your editpost.php file!!! and open the original one...

Then:

after:

PHP Code:

if (!isset($action) or $action=="") {
  $action="editpost";
} 

insert:

PHP Code:

if($preview AND $action="updatepost")
    $action = "editpost"; 

after:

PHP Code:

if ($action=="editpost") {

  // draw nav bar
  $navbar=makenavbar($threadinfo[threadid],"thread",1); 

insert:

PHP Code:

  if($preview)
  { $parseurl=iif($parseurl=="yes",1,0);
      $email=iif($email=="yes",1,0);
      $allowsmilie=iif($disablesmilies=="yes",0,1);
      $signature=iif($signature=="yes",1,0);
    
    $previewmessage=$message;
    
    if ($parseurl) {
      $previewmessage = $postinfo[message]=parseurl($previewmessage);
      }
    
    $previewpost=1;
    $previewmessage=bbcodeparse($previewmessage,$foruminfo[forumid],$allowsmilie);
    $postinfo[message]=$message;    

    if ($signature) {
      $previewmessage.=bbcodeparse("\n__________________\n$bbuserinfo[signature]",0,$allowsmilies);
    }

    eval("\$postpreview=\"".gettemplate("editpost_postpreview")."\";");

    $parseurlchecked=iif($parseurl,"checked","");
    $postinfo[allowsmilie] = $allowsmilie;
    $postinfo[showsignature] = $signature;
    $postinfo[iconid] = $iconid;
    $postinfo[title] = $title;
    $previewchecked=0;
  }
  else{
       $postinfo[message]=htmlspecialchars($postinfo[pagetext]);
    $parseurlchecked="CHECKED";
  } 

Replace:

PHP Code:

 $postinfo[message]=htmlspecialchars($postinfo[pagetext]); 

with:

PHP Code:

//$postinfo[message]=htmlspecialchars($postinfo[pagetext]); 

replace:

PHP Code:

   if ($checkid=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT subscribethreadid FROM subscribethread WHERE userid='$userinfo[userid]' AND threadid=$threadinfo[threadid]")) {
    $emailchecked="CHECKED";
  } else {
    $emailchecked="";
  } 

with:

PHP Code:

   if(!$preview)
      $email=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT subscribethreadid FROM subscribethread WHERE userid=$userinfo[userid] AND threadid=$threadinfo[threadid]");
  $emailchecked=iif($email,"CHECKED",""); 

Make a new template called 'editpost_postpreview' with the following content:

 <table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=1 cellpadding=4>
<TR bgcolor="#6c6081">
<TD valign=middle><smallfont color="#afa3c5"><B>Post Preview:</B></smallfont></TD>
</TR>

<tr bgcolor="#DEDEDE">
<td><normalfont>$previewmessage</normalfont></td>
</tr>
</table>

<br>

then edit your 'editpost' template:

insert the '$postpreview' variable at the appropiate place (look into the 'newthread' template for an example)

and replace:

<INPUT TYPE="Submit" NAME="SUBMIT" ACCESSKEY="S" VALUE="Submit Now">

with:

<INPUT TYPE="Submit" NAME="preview" ACCESSKEY="P" VALUE="Preview">
<INPUT TYPE="Submit" NAME="SUBMIT" ACCESSKEY="S" VALUE="Submit Now">

All done! Enjoy

I'll be working on the pm-preview btw

No-one's interested?

Sure i will use them both, I just wasn't doing much with hacks yet until 2.0 is released. I didn't want a beta 3 to come out and have to re-hack a bunch of stuff.

It would be great if you wrote a upgrade script that you ran and it automatically fixed the things, that way you could just update the script for each beta released.

Hi there,

hopefully didn't overlook something in between,
but I definetely would appreciate to use that hack!

Does it work for 2.0.1?
Did you have a solution meantime for PM Preview - I know there's a hack, just interested if you worked on it, too.

Thanks,
-Tom

[Minimazz]

Yes Mas*Mind, I am very interrested in that hack !

I run v 2.2.1 is your hack fixed for that version ?

any update since your former post ?

waiting for news, see you

[Shenlong]

great hack Mas*Mind

[Stretchr]

Thanks Mas*Mind! I really missed having the ability to preview my edited posts, especially when I'm using vB code. I keep finding myself using HTML instead and then I have to go in again and edit. This is a really good idea!

[LuBi]

Does this work on 2.2.2?

[bitbender]

Sweet Work!