Module: Quick Reply

I released version 1.0.5 of the module. This release fixes two templating issues.

Removed a </style> tag from the css template file. This one was a left behind from early development, when the stylesheet was not yet incorportated in Phorum's css structure. For me, this bug caused the color popup menu in the editor tools to fail, but depending on the installation, the effect of the bug might be different.

Modified the templates a bit, to fix a rendering issue in Firefox. The border around the quick reply editor would not always show up on all sides.

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Maurice Makaay
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I posted version 1.0.6 of this module. This version implements compatibility with the Spam Hurdles module version 2

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/24/2018 04:43PM by Voltius.

Moving the editor up is cumbersome. The reason for that is that it will not play well in a threaded view. Flat view is easy, but the other views need consideration.

I did also think about this and came up with a module that tries to push the same kind of workflow: the user must click before being able to reply. It does so by hiding the editor until the user clicks a reply link. See this module thread for more info.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/24/2018 04:44PM by Voltius.

Extending on this mod does not really make sense. It is way too specific for that. It would be a different module altogether or possibly an extension of the hide reply mod.
Note however that moving the editor around is not as easy as it might look. Each time that the user clicks on a reply link, the editor form variables must be updated to match the expected variables for the server script. This is taken care of in the quick reply editor mod, but not in the editor hiding mod (which will reload the page when needed). Therefore, it's not a trivial hack to implement your moving editor. It would require a big mix of the two modules and a fair bit of additional code to handle the specific functionality.

The problem with hybrid is that the messages get smaller and it's easiest to push the editor into the message boxes. Therefore, the editor gets smaller too. Of course, it could show in its full width with some cool coding, but I didn't really care to do so. I enjoy the quick reply option a lot more (it's the only thing that I use when doing a basic reply, because it is so nice and small).

For me the two modules serve their own purpose. Quick reply provides a super quick commenting system, while hide editor is targeting at having more structured threading by blocking those pesky newbies that simply scroll down and start typing ;-)

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Maurice Makaay
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I am experiencing problems with the Quick-Reply module. This is the error message I receive:

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Ajax Phorum API call succeeded, but the return data could not be parsed as JSON data.

More information is needed. Run firebug in firefox, open up the console, generate the error message. After that, open up the request on the firebug console and check what data is being returned by Phorum for the quick reply Ajax request.

Normally, this kind of message means that there's either a PHP error or some warning(s) that break the JSON data that is returned by Phorum.

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Maurice Makaay
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Thank you, I could not generate more info with Firebug, there is no error message except the pop-up window. I have also received:

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There was an error in the Quick Reply Module. Please inform the module author about this error: unable to find message info

I will reinstall.

Reinstall will probably not help.

If you are unable to produce the response from the Ajax request through firebug (which is not a matter of Firebug handing it over to you, but a matter of you going to the console and viewing the requests), then I cannot help you.

I'm guessing that some of your own coding is breaking the quick reply module, possibly because of PHP warnings or so. I am not psychic enough however to tell you what to do.

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Maurice Makaay
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