send PM by username
 

I would like a hack where I can send a PM just by knowing the user's username (without the ID)

thanks a lot,

Dimava

You allready send PM's by username and not userid.

not that i know of... click on any PM link and it'll put the userid into the url

Why would you manualy type the entire URL to PM someone? If you look in the To box you will see the username. PM's have allways been sent this way, at least in v2.2.x.

i'm trying to put links to PM forum members from a php page outside the vbulletin files

Use this link:

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/private.php?s=&action=newmessage&userid=xx

Just find out the userid's of the person whom you want to PM. You cannot do it with usernames without doing up a new action section with a query to match userids to usernames.

hmm... in a normal html page, if you type in the name of the textbox in the url, it will show up in that textbox, isn't there a way to do it for this too