UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas quick reply hack

I have seen it around, basically it's a small box at the bottom of showflat.php that would allow you to directly insert text and respond to the topic, of course it would be without all the features like greamlins and stuff, and it would have a link saying that if you want more posting features you should go to postreply.php.
see and example here:
here
at the bottom of the page.
I really find that one quite useful and interesting, would it be too difficult to create?
what do you think?
luke01

There is a hack on UBB.C that gives these feature - I think it is currently being used over at https://ubbdev.com. However in flat mode one would not know which message the box would reply to - however in threaded view I could see it working better as the visible message would be the one replied to.

So it would be a great idea in threaded view, and would perhaps encourage that option to be used more.

Ian

in flat mode you would just be replying to the last post. Much the same as a reply icon at the top and bottom of the page does in ubbskin-type templates.

I like the idea as well... very handy, decreases server load and bandwidth

posted by AllenAyres:

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in flat mode you would just be replying to the last post. Much the same as a reply icon at the top and bottom of the page does in ubbskin-type templates.

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True - this would be a great asset if it is possible - sadly it is beyond my skill level at the moment...

This is what I have so far....

code:

<table><tr><td>
<form method="post" enctype='multipart/form-data' action="{$config['phpurl']}/addpost.php" name="replier">
<input type="hidden" name="postername" value="{$user['U_Username']}" />
<input type="hidden" name="Board" value="$Board" />
<input type="hidden" name="Cat" value="$Cat" />
<input type="hidden" name="Reged" value="$Reged" />
<input type="hidden" name="page" value="$page" />
<input type="hidden" name="Main" value="$Main" />
<input type="hidden" name="Parent" value="$Number" />
<input type="hidden" name="view" value="$view" />
<input type="hidden" name="what" value="showflat" />
<input type="hidden" name="sb" value="$sb" />
<input type="hidden" name="o" value="$o" />
<input type="hidden" name="oldnumber" value="$oldnumber" />
<input type="hidden" name="fpart" value="$fpart" />
<input type="hidden" name="vc" value="$vc" />
<input type="hidden" name="replyto" value="$ResUsername" />
<input type="text" name="Subject" maxlength="{$config['subjectlength']}" class="formboxes" size="60" value="$Subject" /><br />
<textarea cols="60" rows="10" class="formboxes" name="Body"></textarea>
<br />
<br />
<input type="submit" name="textcont" value="{$ubbt_lang['TEXT_CONT']}" class="buttons" />
</form>
</td></tr></table>

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It's not filling in the name to reply to correctly, tho I think it gets the rest right. If someone has time to look at it, thanks... if not, I'll work on it some more later

OK, slowly inching my way there This is my current code:

code:

// -----------------
// Get the post info
   $Board_q = addslashes($Board);
   $query = " 
      SELECT B_Username,B_Main,B_Subject,B_Body,B_Approved
      FROM  w3t_Posts 
      WHERE B_Number = $Number
      AND   B_Board  = '$Board_q'
   "; 
   $sth = $dbh -> do_query($query);

// ---------------
// Assign the stuff
   list($ResUsername,$Main,$Subject,$Body,$Approved) = $dbh -> fetch_array($sth);
   $dbh -> finish_sth($sth);

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that goes above the appropriate print statement
then this is added below where it looks best
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<table><tr><td>
<form method="post" enctype='multipart/form-data' action="{$config['phpurl']}/addpost.php" name="replier">
<input type="hidden" name="postername" value="{$user['U_Username']}" />
<input type="hidden" name="Board" value="$Board" />
<input type="hidden" name="Cat" value="$Cat" />
<input type="hidden" name="Reged" value="$Reged" />
<input type="hidden" name="page" value="$page" />
<input type="hidden" name="Main" value="$Main" />
<input type="hidden" name="Parent" value="$Number" />
<input type="hidden" name="view" value="$view" />
<input type="hidden" name="what" value="showflat" />
<input type="hidden" name="sb" value="$sb" />
<input type="hidden" name="o" value="$o" />
<input type="hidden" name="oldnumber" value="$oldnumber" />
<input type="hidden" name="fpart" value="$fpart" />
<input type="hidden" name="vc" value="$vc" />
<input type="hidden" name="replyto" value="$ResUsername" />
<input type="text" name="Subject" maxlength="{$config['subjectlength']}" class="formboxes" size="60" value="$Subject" /><br />
<textarea cols="60" rows="10" class="formboxes" name="Body"></textarea>
<br />
<br />
<input type="submit" name="textcont" value="{$ubbt_lang['TEXT_CONT']}" class="buttons" />
</form>
</td></tr></table>

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The bottom part needs to be cleaned up a bit more to make it pretty, but that's the easy part The main problem I am having now is there's no posting icon associated with the post, so it messes up the front page.

How is this one coming?

Could be an excellent asdition for users,

I was kinda stuck at that above point. I am not sure if it was a conflict between the ubbskin forum I was testing on or not. I need to try it on some clean files and see where the problem is. Any help from the peanut gallery is appreciated

wheeee

hmmmm.. doesn't make the smilies

:)

:p

does it filter html?

<table>
<tr>
<td align="center">
blah
</td></tr></table>

ok, just doesn't work with smilies

It also breaks the link to your post icon on the main index.

Does it do markup at all?? www.ubbdev.com

[edit]Nope..what about if I edit?[/edit]

ya... there are known bugs ;)

I'll publish what I've done so far and see if there are fixes found.

A few buggies to work out.... but otherwise it's pretty cool. I think it would encourage those who never post to add their 2 cents every once in a while.... which would be good. Very simple.

not to mention it saves on bandwidth

did I fix the broken icon?

Yes it appears so!!!

ok, testing smilies





www.ubbdev.com

I wonder if all the UBB Code works:

Poll in Quick Reply
It worked
It didn't work

Hey it did.
Good job Allen!