Question

How to have "close as duplicate" as default behaviour on closing a question?

What do I have to change in qa-page-question-view.php? Or somewhere else?

What about the javascript that displays the duplicate (default) after clicking on "duplicate".

Thanks!

Answer 1

In function qa_page_q_close_q_form(...) in qa-page-question-post.php, change this line:

'value' => @$in['duplicate'],

... to ...

'value' => @array_key_exists('duplicate', $in) ? $in['duplicate'] : true,

Comments

wonderful!

Is it demanded too much if we add this 'tiny thing' as an admin option? Or is it indeed too tiny? ... ah, just leave the q2a core code untouched ;)

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Got a php warning for the hack:
PHP Warning:  array_key_exists() [<a href='function.array-key-exists'>function.array-key-exists</a>]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /qa-include/qa-page-question-post.php on line 489

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I edited the answer and hopefully that should solve the problem.

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Did not solve it, I am still getting the php error message "The second argument should be either an array or an object".

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As I see, from qa-page-question.php line 254 you are calling the function:

$qa_content['q_view']['c_form']=qa_page_q_close_q_form($qa_content, $question, 'close', @$closein, @$closeerrors);

However, nowhere $closein is defined? (which gets $in in qa-page-question-post.php, above.

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OK, try adding an @ sign to before array_key_exists(...).

On your other point, $closein is defined in qa-page-question-post.php which is included by qa-page-question.php when appropriate.

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ah okay, that was invisible to my text search :)

Thanks, that worked:
'value' => @array_key_exists('duplicate', $in) ? $in['duplicate'] : true,

(just edit your answer in case others change that too, thanks gid!)