Quoting of messages makes messages too long

Whenever someone replies to a message from another user, the old message is quoted and shown under the new reply.

After a while of chatting the whole thing is getting longer and longer. So the users either have to delete old stuff from the message quotation (what can be terrible when doing it on and on again) or scroll a loooong way downwards to the answer box.

I know, that I can limit the characters and shorten the quote to 2/3 of its size before, but then I have the problem, that others are complaining about "Hey, I want to write a lot of sentecnes to my friend, burt I can't!)

So is it either possible to set the text field for the reply ABOVE the message or (not that cool, but maybe easier) disable the quoting of messages, that someone got before?

I hope, there's a solution for it, it's a little bit annoying to limit it or to scroll the whole day ^.^

I've now set HTML anchors in the code.

A good solution

Sounds like a good idea, will add this feature to uddeIM 1.5 (not the upcoming 1.5).

As of unknown reason I cannot post code here.

So I'll copy my post into an attachment.

Post edited by: schmatzler, at: 2008/11/26 14:08

I noticed, that my code posted above does not work with Joomla SEF.

So I modified it this way:

Instead of

[code:1]echo '<A href="#showform">»Go to textarea</A><p></p>';[/code:1]

I now use:

[code:1]echo '<A href='.uddeIMsefRelToAbs('"index.php?option=com_uddeim&task=show&Itemid='.$item_id.'&messageid='.$displaymessage->id.'#showform">go to textarea</A><p></p>');[/code:1]

I think, this should also work without SEF activated Now I can jump to the textarea again.