Admins can view user's PM's

After some requests and a debate in the requests forum I've finally finished the majority of this hack. It allows the admin to find a user via the current method in the control panel then click view user's pm's. They are then shown all the pm's in the users folders.

Includes admin logging and is designed to use the cp.css file which is already used by the control panel. I considered adding a search feature but it would be hard without indexing all of the pm's the way vBulletin already does. This means it would be a very limited search.
You can also now select which admins can view user pm's this is done the same way that restriction to the adminlogging is done, the variable is at the top of pm.php

This hack involves uploading pm.php to the admin directory then following the instructions which requires you adding the two links within /admin/user.php

Updated 25th November 2001 @ 22:39

Update was to fix broken smilies by disabling them and to show pm's in all folders not just the inbox. To update simply upload pm.php to your admin folder again.

Scott

[FFMania]

I installed this hack, and when I go to pm.php, this is what I get.

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.5:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM user WHERE user.userid=
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Sunday 05th of May 2002 01:50:27 AM
Script: http://forums.ffinsider.net/admin/pm.php
Referer:

[Scott MacVicar]

ok if you had read any posts in this thread, you will see that you need to find the user then click show users pm's within the page.

Come on its in the post above yours LOL

[springbok]

Hi,

I am running 2.2.5, but it says "Viewing User PM's is restricted.". I have added the admin inot the pm.php file and checked the spelling very carefully, but it keep on saying this.

Any idea?

[Scott MacVicar]

you need to put in the userid, not the username

[springbok]

Its working now. Cheers

[kanima]

Either through the control panel or direct i get this

Warning: Failed opening '/com/ip-subspace.com/www/forum/admin/pm.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0

this is version vb 2.2.1

[Tungsten]

Nice hack. When I saw first saw this I thought "Nah... too much of a big brother tactic" but recently I had some complaints about a particular user sending very hateful and sometimes lewd PMs to other users.

Thanks to this hack I was able to dig into his PM box and see that the complaints were indeed true.

It's a power that could be used for good or bad, but it definitely helped out in this case. Kudos!

[kanima]

figured it out , rights issue.

[Scott MacVicar]

Yep kanima, if the file doesn't exist or php doesn't have permission to read the file you get that error

[ThePeak]

Great! Thanks PPN