Quoting in forums

Wednesday 09 March 2005 12:50:20 pm

I've looked into the quotation functionality with simpletags, and using them to manually enter quotations works great.

Now I want to add a quote-button to all forum entries in my forum, that by clicking lets the user 1) Go directly to a new forum reply-form, and 2) having the message that "belonged" to the quote-button already present in the form (In other words like a normal quote button in most other forums).

I've looked into ezhttp, but can't get it to pass things to edit templates. I also thought about somehow getting the nodeID of the quoted forum entry, and then fetching it in the edit template, but since this also requires passing stuff to an edit template, it didn't work out.

I'm stuch here, and would appriciate alternative approaches to this. Does anyone have any experience with this, or have any ideas as to how to make it work?

Wednesday 09 March 2005 1:29:48 pm

This could work, but seems to have the same problem as using ezhttp. The form posts to <i>content/action</i>, but it then redirects to content/edit. The view parameters (and the ezhttp, I guess) is lost in the redirection. Am I doing anything wrong here?

This is my form code:

        <form method="post" action={concat("content/action/(node)/",$:item.node_id)|ezurl}>

        <input type="hidden" name="ContentNodeID" value="{$:item.object.owner.main_node_id}" />
        <input type="hidden" name="ContentObjectID" value="{$:item.object.owner.id}" />
        <input type="hidden" name="ViewMode" value="full" />
        <input type="hidden" name="privat" value="{$:item.object.data_map.privat.data_int}">

        <input type="hidden" name="NodeID" value="{$:item.object.owner.main_node_id}" />
        <input type="hidden" name="ClassID" value="47">
        <input type="image" name="NewButton" value="reply" src="/share/icons/reply.gif" alt="Svar!" title="Reply!">
        </form>

Wednesday 09 March 2005 1:59:53 pm

Thanks again, I'll look into it :)

Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:31:17 pm

Hi Brendan :)

I haven't had time to look deeper into this yet. Pauls ideas seem to be the best so far.

I need this functionality several places in my eZ site though, so I guess it's just a matter of time before I have to start looking into it again.

Please let me know if you find a working sollution for this :)