all good suggestions - ill put a spreadsheet together when I get home of "Development requests" or something.
U can't put a quote button unfortunately for the same reason as other PMs cannot be put into replies... it posts the form twice. I spent many hours trying to figure it out to no avail - so when it failed even when all the code was right, i had to put it down to a conflict of diff technologies.
Matt:
U can't put a quote button unfortunately for the same reason as other PMs cannot be put into replies... it posts the form twice. I spent many hours trying to figure it out to no avail - so when it failed even when all the code was right, i had to put it down to a conflict of diff technologies.
So, copy and paste it is then
(Good morning Matt)
I thought you could have multiple forms on a single webpage. Have a look at the XHTML standard on the W3C official site.
Alternately, look at XForms (an XML derived standard).
Thirdly, if you make the Reply form a secondary form, then you could add a [Formar to me] button on the InBox message form, like you have the [Reply] and other buttons.
Finally, you could just add a profile option to allow the auto forwarding of the full message rather than just the notification that a message had arrived. That means we can decide whether we want to go onto the site and send a reply. :-)
It's good to make users come back to the site - rather than just looking at their PMs in an email. We want returning visitors :-P
The issue isn't with forms, its a javascript issue. If theres default text, then the javascript for some reason submits the form twice (Once with blank content and once with the full message).
I've been thinking of a way to resolve it, like creating a "threaded" type of PM string, so you can click to see the PM that you replied to.
It's all a lot of work though - for very little improvement to service. For now, I think having the original message under the text box is good enough, and it also keeps the data to a minimum (No duplicate content in the databse everytime you reply).
The forwarding button, and "email me a copy" thing should be very easy to implement, and i'll do it asap as its a good feature thats easy to make.
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