Not much of a release, but should be 1.1.4 compliant.

Please discuss here: http://www.vbulletin.org/hacks/hacks...=gethack&id=36

Nice new features.

Thanks

Since your probably the person in the know. Is this the version of PM that is going to be in version 2.0 or at least is the 2.0 version going to be compatible?

I don't want to install this now and then have to try and convert the tables when 2.0 comes out.

Thanks for you help.

Very good point mr wluke (love sitepoint btw, great stuff )

Will v2.0 use the same tables, column names etc... at your poll hack (ed).

Suppose this really should have been asked before.

http://www.e-tones.co.uk

Yes.

I've a Problem with the hack. The makeprivtables.php3 doesn't work:

Database error in vBulletin: Invalid SQL: ALTER TABLE usergroup ADD canusepm TINYINT (4) DEFAULT '1' not null
mysql error: Duplicate column name 'canusepm'
mysql error number: 1060
Date: Saturday 04th of November 2000 07:22:49 PM
Script: /makeprivtables.php3
Referer:

can anybody help me?

[Edited by g1gabyt3 on 11-04-2000 at 04:23 PM]

You probably have already installed PM v1.2.0 so in your db is already column canusepm.

I think you should read upgrade-templates.txt. :D

I can't find the following lines to change in showthread.php:

What did I wrong?

You're reading the upgrade instructions I believe, which you don't need to do for 1.1.4 - since it's a fresh code installation.

anyway, insert that code under:
$userinfo=$post;

i am thinking of adding in the pm hack now :)

do the control panel, censor function work on pm messages ?

ed, in the instructions for member.php there's 2 instances of
one in start coppa and one in start modify profile
so do i replace both ?

the first instance which I think is modify profile.

thanks i installed it and modify profile is the 2nd instance if my short term memory is correct :)

is there away to add a announcement like template bit aboave the pm table in private.php - so to announce private news to members while they are checking their messages ?

now i have a problem, the pm messages are not getting deleting when i check the box to delete them ?

[Edited by eva2000 on 11-11-2000 at 05:45 AM]

also when i moved a message to another folder, it disappears from the inbox but does not make it's way to the new folder ? i send another test message and my moved message reappears at the inbox folder ?

Damnit. I installed 1.2.0 because this was farther away and I thought that was the latest hack. )()(*@#)($()@$. Thanks for the new hack!

does this hack only work for VB 1.1.4 like it says on the site and in the text file?

The instructions are for 1.1.4 only.

Ed, I have the previous version (1.2?) running on 1.1.4 without any problems. Should I upgrade then? Are there any new features that were added specifically to this release? I had a look at the upgrade text file and could not see anything new. Am I missing something?

anyone have instructions for installing this version on 1.1.3, instead of 1.1.4?

Hey Ed,
first... GREAT HACK as always! ;)
Now, I applied it to my board but I noticed that on the private.php page instead of the "[Send A Private Message]" wording there's a line like __________________ still linked to private.php?action=newmessage&password=&reply=fals e . How can I fix this?

Edit the templates. :)

i changed all the .php extensions into .php3 extensions and there are still numerous glitches in the code. either there is no file found, or the screens are completely white. other than that it was a smooth install. what else do i have to change over to php3?

nevermind - i have to find and replace all the .php extensions in all the edited files and private.php(3).

thanks.

I was going into the right direction but didn't notice there were two instances of this wording... :)
Tnx anyway.

Works absolutely perfect.

was wondering what i should do if i have the version php3 of my board

and this pm hack seams compatible with only php boards

how should i do this please answer :)

Do a mass search/replace of .php with .php3 in the included PHP files [mainly/all makeprivtables.php] Note the dot! .php, .php3. Then rename the files.

What about PHP4? Would it work too?

gah more trouble :/

Parse error: parse error in /www/trportal/wtfxp/forum1/makeprivtables.php3 on line 3

in makeprivtables.php3 on line 3 it says

require("global.php3");

i already uploaded the global file i edited then tried to ran but still the same message appeared

what is wrong ?

php4 has the simple .php extensions. php3 relates to .php3 extensions. IE there is no .php4, but rather .php. i am assuming that .php will serve as PHP's predominant extension through versions PHP5 and up until the language becomes extinct.

[Edited by Universal Sea on 12-03-2000 at 10:23 PM]

How do I get the private message menu bar to appear when people first go to the forums? I have it working correctly, I just want that bar there to promote it more.

in my index.php, the lines:

$lastuserlink = "<a href=\"private.php?action=show&msgid=$lastsent[msgid]&password=$bbpassword\">$lastuser</a>";
} else {
$lastuserlink = "<i>No one</i>";
}
eval("\$pminfo .= \"".gettemplate("pmloggedin")."\";");
} else {
eval("\$pminfo .= \"".gettemplate("pmloggedout")."\";");
}

are all there.. so I'm not sure why it's not getting those templates (and those templates are there) and not working.

You didn't add the link to forumhome like instructed.

Ed? :)

No, don't bother. The only difference is the instructions.

OK, thanks :)

By the way, a couple of small things I thought you might want to know about:

1) Upon sending a Private Message, the script checks to see if the title (among others) is empty. If it is, it tells the user he left one of the fields empty. However, if a user puts, for example, one SPACE in the title - that message goes through. However, your script then trims these spaces, and the message is delivered without a title, and hence without a link to click on.

Granted, this only happened rarely on my BB, but for the 3-4 times that people complained, I made a small change whereby I added a function that adds (no subject) to such PMs.

2) Your templates were missing the <input type="hidden" name="replyto"> field, and therefore messages that were replied to did not get a new icon. Took me a long while to figure that one out! :)

By the way, I must commend you: this has been one of the most significant additions to our BB since its inception several years ago.

Cheers,

Bira

Thanks for the heads up bira. Would you mind posting your fix and which templates need this?
Thx.

Do you think you'll include on a next release the popup notifiy window with sound alert that was included on UBB? You know... whenever there's a new PM, a popup comes up playing a sound and telling you something like "you have a new PM, check it now!". :)

If someone does a quote it
QUOTE]Originally sent by Shakhan:
[QUOTE]Originally sent by Savage:

puts that above in the messages, it doesnt parse them?

Thanks

Everything else seems to work so far.

Or do you have to choose between the two?
Thanks