Need some help auto-PMing a user

[fly]

I had this posted in another thread, but it was off topic from the original post...

All I need to know is what exactly is going on in these SQL queries belowso that I can pass the right stuff to the variables to get the PM to go through.

Thanks for any help.

Originally Posted by flypaper

And I was talking in the Ucash/Ushop forum yesterday and someone mentioned PMing a member after they were 'theifed'. I liked the idea and tried to poke around and see if there was a function to send PMs like creating threads, but couldn't find one.

Hmmm. Looks like there isn't a function to do it, but these DB queries do:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "pmtext\n\t(fromuserid, fromusername, title, message, touserarray, iconid, dateline, showsignature, allowsmilie)\nVALUES\n\t($bbuserinfo[userid], '" . addslashes($bbuserinfo['username']) . "', '$title', '$message', '" . addslashes(serialize($tostring)) . "', $iconid, " . TIMENOW . ", $signature, $disablesmilies)"); 


PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "pm (pmtextid, userid, folderid, messageread) VALUES ($pmtextid, $bbuserinfo[userid], -1, 1)"); 


PHP Code:

$DB_site->shutdown_query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user SET pmtotal=pmtotal+1 WHERE userid=$bbuserinfo[userid]"); 


Can anyone explain how I pass whatever is needed in these queries and/or what the queries are exactly doing?