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| Posted: 28 Sep 2009 19:57 | ||
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Greetings --
I'm comfortable with PHP and MySQL and have thoroughly searched the forum for any clues regarding the topic that I am bringing up in this post. I'd like to add a "Quote" button to each post (including the original post) in any given topic. By pressing this button, a user will be transported to the "Post Your Reply" box. Where it gets tricky is here... I'd like for the message content of the post where the "Quote" button was pushed to be placed within the "Post Your Reply" box. The bulk of this already occurs when we are signed in and choose to "Edit" a post. The contents of the post we want to edit is placed within a "box" similar to the one used for the "Post Your Reply" box. I'll happily make my finished modification available to the entire SEO Board community once I figure out how to implement this. Right now I just need a little bit of guidance. For example, this appears to be the relevant "edit post" code found in vtopic.php: Code:
[ <a href="'.$forumscript.'?a=editpost&p='.$p_id.'">'.$lang['edit'].'</a> ] I suppose I'll need to create a function called "quotepost" instead of "editpost" and essentially duplicate most of what is happening within the "editpost" function? Any guidance would be appreciated! |
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| Posted: 29 Sep 2009 08:48 | ||
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| You are on the right track, if you want this. The quote would need to reload the page though, while currently you just type into the message box. | ||
| Posted: 01 Oct 2009 17:49 | ||
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Update --
I'm making good progress. So far, I have basically created a copy of the "editpost.php" and have called it "quotepost.php" -- I am making changes within that file. Also, I am carefully editing "vtopic.php" as well as adding new entries to the "eng.php" file. Oh, and I also created a new template file called "userquotepost.htm" so that I could add the "quote" bbcode to the textarea html section as well as to change some of the wording references. To be honest, I am trying to keep track of all the various changes that are being made, but regardless, I will certainly provide the raw source files to it all when I am finished and am assured it works -- and I will document every change so others can see what modifications were made, etc. The only possibly "bloat" related issue that I can see occurring is when someone replies and "quotes" the entire message that they are responding to as opposed to certain lines/sentences. This could (in the long run) take up more MySQL database space -- are there any other possible "bloat" issues that I'm forgetting or not aware of? |
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| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 01:25 Last Edited By: NXN | ||
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UPDATE: I'm still tweaking things. The more I look
at the mess of code I've created, the less enthusiastic I am about pushing forward. There comes a point where so many random little edits add up to a potentially unstable code foundation. The good news is that I've become *extremely* familiar with SEO Board's code and really thing it's AMAZING. Easily the most incredible forum platform I've played around with from a coding standpoint -- and I think it's because everything is so incredibly organized! |
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| Posted: 07 Nov 2009 09:24 Last Edited By: bdkekos | ||
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The good news is that I've become *extremely* familiar with SEO Board's code and really thing it's AMAZING. Easily the most incredible forum platform I've played around with from a coding standpoint -- and I think it's because everything is so incredibly organized! I agree. 
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