Yeah you can remove them ... in this case it doesn't matter, because you are deleting the variable, then returning it (null)... no point.

Oh Ok.
And to think I'm a coder. :shrugs:

I see this article is nearly a year old, but I figured I'd ask anyway.

I'm using vBulletin 3.6.5.

Any idea why this isn't updating the user that they have a private message?

For example, this is what I see at the top right of my forum even though I have about 10 PMs sent using this script.
Thanks,
Brandon Drury

This took care of it.

Brandon

I know this is an old thread but does anyone have a proper solution for the problem brandon described in #13?

His fix doesn't work properly.
It does make the PM appear in the upper-right as unread and total.. but it does not allow for the new PM popup to appear.

Hey guys, thanks for this topic, it helps to send PMs on vBulletin 4.x version, but now I would like to read PMs of specific user using his ID or anything, do someone has an idea how to display them ?

@harmor19 - I am bumping this to recommend that this be moved to vBulletin 4 Articles as it is working on vBulletin 4.2.1.
A query though: How do you get a message to span multiple lines (like <br /> in HTML)?