Allow quotes to be quoted

[Andy]

The [ Quote] tag is not quotable.

For example if I put in a quote like this...

this is an example

if someone replies w/ quote my quote will be erased. Its not good to have part of the original message lost if your quoting a reply.

[FASherman]

The [ Quote] tag is not quotable.

For example if I put in a quote like this...



if someone replies w/ quote my quote will be erased. Its not good to have part of the original message lost if your quoting a reply.

I don't see that as a bad thing. I would rather avoid wasting database space with N levels of quotes.

[Andy]

I'm not as concerned with disk space as I am with people being able to follow a reply.

The reply w/ quote feature is one of the most important functions in a forum sotware like vBulletin. Sometimes people will use the [QUOTE] tag in a reply many times. To have these quotes lost when it is quoted is a problem.

The problem lies with having more then one quote per post. The software doesn't know how to handle that.

[Marco]

Quote 1

Quote 2

Quote 3

It can handle nested quotes just fine, just for some very odd reason they're stripped off when you use Reply w/Quote.

[merk]

It can handle nested quotes just fine, just for some very odd reason they're stripped off when you use Reply w/Quote.

They are stripped off using the regex_ bbcode functions.

I cant see why its really that big of a problem for general uses (sometimes its much better that they are stripped), but i can sometimes see a need for it. Though, having the "Topic Review" below the new post window, and being able to modify the post yourself adding quote tags, that its not a problem at all.

I would like to see an vBulletin Option to set the depth of quote tags that get stripped. Mike is probably the only one that could work out a über-regex-function that could do it!

[cirisme]

It strips it so that they don't get too nested. At least that's what happened in vb2. Let's find out:

Innermost quote

Edit: okay vb2 stopped parsing after about 2 or 3 layers. The new regexes must have fixed that

[Andy]

Where can I locate the regex_ bbcode functions?

[Mike Sullivan]

$pagetext = trim(strip_quotes($pagetext));

In newreply.php. Remove the call to strip_quotes there.

[Andy]

$pagetext = trim(strip_quotes($pagetext));

In newreply.php. Remove the call to strip_quotes there.

Hi Mike,

It would be nice to know where I could add that line in the PM script. That way the PM's would be the same as thread posts and you would only see the last reply quoted.

[BenSjoberg]

vb2 stopped parsing after about 2 or 3 layers. The new regexes must have fixed that

It was three, check it out: http://forums.wdwinsider.net/showthr...&threadid=1254

[Andy]

I think the best solution for nested quotes is to simply not allow them. If a user manually puts in a second quote tag, when they click on submit, if more then one quote tag is found, then an error message pops up and informs them that this is not allowed. Same thing for PM's. They are far too difficult to read with all the nested quotes. Trim the last quote like it is done in the thread posts.

Simplicity is the mother of invention.

[merk]

How would you tell the difference between a quote that was already there, and one that was entered by the user?

[Marco]

I think the best solution for nested quotes is to simply not allow them. If a user manually puts in a second quote tag, when they click on submit, if more then one quote tag is found, then an error message pops up and informs them that this is not allowed. Same thing for PM's. They are far too difficult to read with all the nested quotes. Trim the last quote like it is done in the thread posts.

Simplicity is the mother of invention.

That may be your opinion, but if something like this would ever be done I would prefer it be made optional. I think nested quotes are quite handy, and so do my users.

[jilly]

DISABLING THE AUTOMATED QUOTING FEATURE?

How can I disable the automatcic quoting of each post in a reply?