Download PMs to File (for all 2.x.x versions)"

HACK UPDATED NOV 27TH 2001 - WORKS WITH ALL 2.X.X VERSIONS!

Since I was asked to make this available, here's my hack for downloading Private Messages (as many as you select) at once into a local txt file.

This is helpful if you need to clear out your PM folder(s) due to quota limitation, but don't want to lose those messages.

In effect, it works like an e-mail RFC archive.

Installation Instructions:

1. Open private.php.

Find:

  if ($delete!="") {
    $what="delete";
  }

Immediately AFTER it put:

PHP Code:

  if ($download!="") {
    $what="download";
  } 


Find:

}

// ############################### start delete ###############################

Immediately ABOVE it (make sure you put it ABOVE the } ) put:

PHP Code:

if ($what=="download") {
    if (is_array($privatemessage)) {
        header("Content-disposition: filename=messages.txt");
        header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
        header("Pragma: no-cache");
        header("Expires: 0");

          while(list($key,$val)=each($privatemessage)) {
            $downloads=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT touserid,fromuserid,dateline,title,message FROM privatemessage WHERE privatemessageid='$key' AND userid=$bbuserinfo[userid]");
            $tousername=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT username FROM user WHERE userid='$downloads[touserid]'");
            $fromusername=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT username FROM user WHERE userid='$downloads[fromuserid]'");
            $msgdt = vbdate($dateformat,$downloads[dateline]);
            $msgtm = vbdate($timeformat,$downloads[dateline]);
            $wordwrap = wordwrap($downloads[message],75,"\r\n");
            
            print("Date/Time Sent: $msgdt, $msgtm\r\n");
            print("From: $fromusername[username]\r\n");
            print("To: $tousername[username]\r\n");
            print("Subject: $downloads[title]\r\n\r\n");
            print("$wordwrap\r\n");
            print("==========================================================================\r\n\r\n\r\n");


        } //end while
    
    } else {
      eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_pmnoselected")."\");");
      exit;
   }
} 


Note for Foreign Users: replace the words 'Date/Time Sent', 'From', 'To', 'Subject' in the above code with whatever wording in your language that suits you.

Save file and upload.

2. Edit template privfolder.

Find:

$massforwardlink

Immediately after OR before it (it does not matter), put:

or <input type="submit" class="bginput2" name="download" value="Download" style="background-color:#606096;color:#FFF788;font-size:10px;font-weight:bold">

Note for Foreign Users: replace the word "or" and the value "Download" with whatever wording in your language that suits you.


That's it!

Usage: select one or more messages in one of your Private Messages folder and click on "Download". You will be prompted to save messages.txt on your hard drive (a Windows filename & folder selection dialogue will pop up).

Cheers,

Bira

[bira]

Originally posted by veedee
Great looking hack.

I run about 7 styles on my website, does this mean i have to hack the templates 7 times ?

~veedee

Do you actually have a different templateset for every style though?!?

Run a search in the Control Panel -> Templates for $massforwardlink. If you have more than one template with it, you can do a search/replace of

Search for: $massforwardlink
Replace with: $massforwardlinkor <input type="submit" name="download" value="Download">

At your peril though

[veedee]

yeah different templates

will do what you told me, cheers me dear

[smelialichu]

Abyone got any ideas on how to solve my prob? i got it so the filename includes the date. i can tell you how if anyone's interested, iy's fairly simple. In fact very simple

[bira]

Actually, wordwrap() is a built-in function in PHP.

Perhaps, though, it's only in PHP4 or something.

[slip]

i installed everything exactly as it should be done, yet when i try to download some pm's, i just get a blank page (completely blank, no errors)

any help?

[NORRITT]

Hi, if i click in the user cp on the link 'Private Messaging' I get just the following error messsage:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in e:\apache\apache\nsdocs\forum\private.php on line 695

[zarkov]

restore private.php and see if that works then rehack.
You probably deleted a , or } or something.

See my hack based on this one to Email the selected PM's to the registered email address here
http://161.58.84.213/forum/showthrea...threadid=18991

[NORRITT]

I did it three times!

[zarkov]

did it work OK when you re up the original file?

[NORRITT]

yes