Turn bbcode permamanently ON and don't show "Format comments as" row

uzi

Is it possible to turn bbcode-format permanently ON for all comments of all users and then turn OFF the "Format comments as" row at the end of the text-input area?

Mark

It could probably be done as an extension. I haven't tried this, but my guess is that all you'd have to do is hook into the StringManager and remove the Text formatter from the formatters collection, leaving only the other formatters you have installed. If you only had the BBCode formatter installed, then the "format comments as" would disappear and the BBCode would be default.

uzi

hm, I found stringmanipulator in framework folder, is it this?

Dinoboff

I havn't try it yet but try to replace in BetterBBCode/default.php, Line 36 // Instantiate the bbcode object and add it to the string manipulation methods $BetterBBCodeFormatter = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewObject($Context, "BetterBBCodeFormatter"); $Context->StringManipulator->AddManipulator("BBCode", $BetterBBCodeFormatter);
by// Instantiate the bbcode object and add it to the string manipulation methods $Context->StringManipulator->Formatters = array(); $Context->StringManipulator->GlobalFormatters = array(); $BetterBBCodeFormatter = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewObject($Context, "BetterBBCodeFormatter"); $Context->StringManipulator->AddManipulator("BBCode", $BetterBBCodeFormatter);

Dinoboff

I just tested it (with something else than bb) and it work fine if no comments have been saved before in on other format. I will check tommorow if there is on other way to fix that, but you can change the format of your comments in the database.

Dinoboff

Ok, no need to change the FormatType in the database.

It should look like that :
(line 36)// Instantiate the bbcode object and add it to the string manipulation methods $Context->StringManipulator->Formatters = array(); $Context->StringManipulator->GlobalFormatters = array(); $Context->Configuration['DEFAULT_FORMAT_TYPE'] = 'BBCode'; $BetterBBCodeFormatter = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewObject($Context, "BetterBBCodeFormatter"); $Context->StringManipulator->AddManipulator("BBCode", $BetterBBCodeFormatter);

rabidgopher04

@Dinoboff Your solution looks wonderful and it's what I thought to do as well, but it just makes the Text and BBCode options disappear and then the BBCode tool bar is disabled. Any other suggestions from anyone? I would think it would be as simple as just adjusting something in the control panel, but unfortunately it's not.

Dinoboff

try to adapt that http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/3888/?Focus=46861#Item_24 to the bbcode formatter

chuyskywalker

Ahem

There are some bugs in it, but I don't plan on fixing them. View the source to see the "trick" to getting rid of the formatting options.

Dinoboff

You should replace // set the default formatter to BBCode $Context->Configuration['DEFAULT_FORMAT_TYPE'] = 'BBCode'; // by only having the BBCode option, you force all other formats to be parsed as BBCode $Context->Configuration['FORMAT_TYPES'] = array('BBCode'); // overwrite a user preference for showing/hiding the format selector radio buttons $Context->Session->User->Preferences['ShowFormatSelector'] = 0;
by if ( $Context->Session->UserID > 0 && $Context->Session->User->Permission('PERMISSION_HTML_ALLOWED') ) { //Make BBCode formater the only formatter available to post a new comment or to edit an old one $Context->Configuration['DEFAULT_FORMAT_TYPE'] = 'BBCode'; $Context->Session->User->DefaultFormatType = 'BBCode'; $Context->Session->User->Preferences['ShowFormatSelector'] = 0; }

Old posts with html format will be still be parsed correctly and users without html permission won't have access to the bbcode.