Quote Topic in IM

[pulpitfire]

I'd like a button to reply, with quote, to someone's topic, by IM.

[nil]

Ctrl + c then Ctrl + v.  Works like a charm...

now you are just randomly throwing out ideas pege. 

[pulpitfire]

Ctrl + c then Ctrl + v.  Works like a charm...

now you are just randomly throwing out ideas pege. 

it's not a random idea.  at the time of this post, i was just in an actual case in a forum, where someone posted way outside the guidelines.  i didn't want to respond to it in the thread, but by IM.  we have a reply button on the threads so you don't have to copy and paste everything, so why not have it so you can reply to someone's thread, with quote, in IM?

[Grudge]

Well - I guess it could possibly be a useful feature for admins to have - otherwise it seems like yet another feature that would get like 0.001% utilisation - IMHO

[[Unknown]]

Actually, I like this feature, but it's really a mod thing.

-[Unknown]

[nil]

Are you talking IM (AIM, Y! IM, MSN, ...) or PM?

[Ben_S]

PM I'd imagine, the rest would make no sence :p

[Anguz]

perhaps is the reply with quote tag was simpler, like, instead of

Code Select Expand

[quote author=Ben_S link=topic=4955.0#msg49708 date=1074367344]here goes the quoted message[/quote]

it'd only ask you the msg id

Code Select Expand

[quote msg=49708][/quote ]

as an option and load the rest from the db (poster, topic,  date, message) when posting it, then it could be easily used in PM or Reply without needing a special button for it, just add the msg id to the quote tag and that's it

edit: [bug] I wrote the quote code inside code tags, but the function is still putting an opening quote tag in the second code block, should it do that? -edit: added a space to the closing tag to avoid the problem

[[Unknown]]

Well, I think it just checks for [ quote ]/[ /quote ] and counts them up... it'd be annoying to fix .

The reason so much is in the [ quote ] tag is because it means no database query has to be used to get the rest of the information.

-[Unknown]

[Anguz]

Well, I think it just checks for [ quote ]/[ /quote ] and counts them up... it'd be annoying to fix .

The reason so much is in the [ quote ] tag is because it means no database query has to be used to get the rest of the information.

-[Unknown]

I thought that was the case, and the tag could remain with that format actually... my idea was that instead of querying the db each time it's displayed, have the tags changed to the long format by the post function before saving to the db or previewing, like the /me code changes to

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[[Unknown]]

Yeah, I was actually considering a few things like that.... [board]1[/board] and stuff, maybe even.

-[Unknown]

[Anguz]

Yeah, I was actually considering a few things like that.... [board]1[/board] and stuff, maybe even.

-[Unknown]

great! (^_^)

what would a tag like the [board] one do?

btw, I'll take this chance to request a couple of new tags that'd work the same way -replaced before saved- that I mentioned in the Mod Ideas area at yabbse.org, but still want (~_^)

http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?thread=26680

that's the thread... the only difference is that there I was thinking of the [sort] tag to be saved like that, but now I think it's better to sort before saving, otherwise it'd have to be done each time it's displayed

[Anguz]

I found this mod for YaBB SE in page 19 or so of Completed Mods hehe... 
http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?thread=15331

it doesn't work the same way as I suggest, since it's not a time stamp, but it did give me the idea that the stamp should probably work in a way that shows the user's local time, cause the way it is, I think it'd show the poster's time only

so it'd probably be better to write the time between [time] tags and parse it on display to show the right time for the person reading it

[[Unknown]]

I would parse on post to make it a timestamp, this would be faster.

-[Unknown]

[Anguz]

I would parse on post to make it a timestamp, this would be faster.

-[Unknown]

that's what I thought too, since it's saved and that's it

[pulpitfire]

I would parse on post to make it a timestamp, this would be faster.

-[Unknown]

that's what I thought too, since it's saved and that's it

no he didn't.  he's making that up.