Custom post.php for test purposes?

[Snickers]

I was wondering to create a custom post.php it has the same function as the "reply mode".

With the panel and all its features, BUT no: additional options, no topic/subject title and ONLY Preview option?

Any one seeing where I am going with this?

I snapped the "reply panel" off from:

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/Themes/default/help/posting.english.html since I couldn't get a edited copy of

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source/post.php to work.

So I do have the panel, but it does not have preview option? (the preview option, where you can click preview and it does the fetching preview option..

SO either make a copy of sources/post.php and remove a lot of coding from it, OR take the one from

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/Themes/default/help/posting.english.html  and add the preview code.

Anyone willing to help?

[Oldiesmann]

Modify Themes/default/Post.template.php - look for template_postbox()

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Ok, I took from
function template_postbox(&$message) and copied the whole text from there to the end.

then I made a new file, wrote <?php and then pasted the text in..

I checked the file, and it showed blank?

oh and by doing this, will i get the preview to work still?

and if I only remove subject title, additional options, post and spell check, how to do it? (i read the whole file but couldn't figure it out)

and wouldn't it say hacker attampt?

[Snickers]

Ok, that might have sounded a little confusing....

How is it possible to take a copy of  Themes/default/Post.template.php put it into a new file and modify it so you can run it alone (ex: website.com/reply_mode.php)

But with title removed, additioninal options removed, post and spell check removed..

So you can pretty much just use it for testing?

[Seta Soujiro]

It's a template file not an independent file--so you can't just take it and try to run it--it just contains template functions.  Here is what you need to do--make a copy of your current template in the Admin panel, and just switch your profile to use the copied template, and then you can test it from there.

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come again?

oh and its supposed to be an independent file anyone can use

ex: www.yoursite.com/reply_test.php

where you can only test/preview posting

[Snickers]

Is my post that confusing?

[Seta Soujiro]

Is my post that confusing?

lol, yes.

[Snickers]

lol

okay.

I want a file which EVERYONE can access, and the file contains the reply panel and nothing more.
The reply panel will be like the normal one BUT NO Additional options, NO "post/submit" option and NO subject title box.

So it can only be used for typing something and press preview..

[Snickers]

Com'on!! 

I can't be that horrible at explaining 

[Seta Soujiro]

>>How is it possible to take a copy of  Themes/default/Post.template.php put it into a new file and modify it so you can run it alone (ex: website.com/reply_mode.php)<<
It's not designed to do this.  It's just a template file.  It contains functions that are called--it is not stand-alone.  If you create a copy of your current template, and then set users to use this, they will use the modified version.