excellent hack! i'll test it later when i get time, but it sounds really good.

Is it absolutly mandatory that we shut down our vb to run the query?

>>Is it absolutly mandatory that we shut down our vb to run the query?

hahah no, that is your choice! It's advised but not mandatory.

I get this error after running the query:

Error
SQL-query : [Edit]

ALTER TABLE 'user' ADD 'pmunread' SMALLINT(6) DEFAULT "0" NOT NULL

MySQL said:

You have an error in your SQL syntax near ''user' ADD 'pmunread' SMALLINT(6) DEFAULT "0" NOT NULL' at line 1

Sorry, extra quotes got in there somehow. This is the correct query:

ALTER TABLE user ADD pmunread SMALLINT(6) DEFAULT "0" NOT NULL;

That works and I've updated the text file. Thanks.

this is a great hack.. :) i think a good mod would be to have it blink in a little table, right beside the nav bar. alot more visible. just a suggestion.

regards,
nakkid.

Thanks man. Nice new logo up top there.. If you want to make your site blink, more power to ya ;) Most people use image buttons and not text links like I do, so substituting a GIF with an animated new PM gif would be the way to go.

excellent point.. and thanks for the logo thing.. ;)

this works great! thanks overgrow!

i like the looks of this. i did everythin up til this point here:
"4) Change your site-wide Private Messaging link. Mine is located in my PHP
parsed header file and I do something like this:

if ($bbuserinfo[userid] > 0 and $bbuserinfo[pmunread]==1)
$pmstyle=" style=\"color:#ffdc00;\"";"

I am terribly n00b on that. I honestly have no clue what that means or where to look for it.

<shame>
haha