This may be impossible to do, but it has been requested by my girls on the UBB (which hopefully will be on Vb when I get my new server which is why I'm posting this here).

They want to be able to see someone "online" and be able to send them an instant message. Example, I see Martin on the "currently online" section on the front page. I click on his profile, and there is a link that says "send him an instant message" where I can fill out a form and it sends it to him. Martin instantly gets some type of notification, maybe a popup, or some noticable way that appears on any page he is on. He clicks on it, and then he can send an instant message back to me.

would be nice, but wouldn't the PM hack be better for this ? i mean i hate to have say 100 online members instant message me at the same time :eek:

You'd think, but my visitors want instant messaging so they can chat when they are both online. You don't know you have a PM unless you go to the front page or check your email for a confirmation.

Unless you can get PM notification on all pages....
Ed???

[Edited by Me2Be on 08-03-2000 at 02:50 PM]

Humm this would be nice... and I don't think too difficult either.

-Chris

actually i have seen the PM hack done that way shown on showthreads template bit over at fanforum.com - one big vbulletin there too :) check out the FAQ forum if you can find it on the frontpage.... the top of each thread has the PM notification

Thanks Eva - just checked it out and I like the way that is done. Their Vb is quite slow, must be all the visitors on there (150)!

yeah i know fanforum is slow and a bit buggy, i think it could be their customisation... cause i registered fine, but my sister was caught in a loop on sign up there... she kept pressing agree and kept getting redirected to the initial sign up page :eek:

150 online users is alot, i wonder how long it took them to do the customisation... so many templates :rolleyes:

i am thinking of doing the PM hack that way too, so how would one do that ? maybe justifies a new thread :)

Putting the PM indicator on every page would be easy but time consuming. Just think of all the templates you would have to edit, UGGGHHHH!

Putting something in fivelinks would be the way to do it I think. The little light indicator and then a link to private.php

It's very easy.

Turn on PHP in your Header and paste all the index.php code in there.

Should work great.

Well, actually - that would bring up the PM code, but you might want to edit the templates so it's a full table, and then remove the $pminfo link from forumhome.