Private Messages Enhancements - Private Message Quote Formatting

What is it?
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This mod arranges quotes in a PM to be in a "conversational" order instead of being nested. This solves the problem of displaying deeply-nested quotes. This mod also has an option to add a date/time stamp to quoted PMs.

Note: I'm marking this "beta" because it hasn't been tested very much. If you try this, please let me know if you have any problems or would like it to work differently.

Also, I'm not much of an html/css person - this mod mostly provides variables which can be checked in the template, and a bare-bones css file. If anyone comes up with css for a better looking format and wants to share it, please do (and maybe I'll put it in a later version).

(vb3 version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=292996)


Installation:

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Just import the product XML file from the Product Manager. This doesn't change stored PMs in any way (unless you enable the date/time stamp - see below), so you can uninstall or disable the product at any time to go back to the original PM template.

If you'd like to customize the format, you can edit the kh99_pm_quote, kh99_pm_quote_bit, and/or the kh99_pm_quote.css templates.

If you want to add date/time tags to PM quotes, go to the adminCP options under "Private Messaging Options" and set "Add Date and Time to Quotes" to yes. Note that if you later uninstall this mod, any messages quoted while this option was on will still contain a date/time tag, but it will display after the name in a default format and timezone. If this is a concern, it's probably better that you don't enable this option.

Also note that the date/time option only adds the timestamp to newly quoted messages - it will not add one to quotes in existing messages.


History:
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0.91 (Dec 22, 2012)

• Fixed conflict with at least one mod that adds default text formmating
• Fixed problem with html in pm notification email
• Option to show only N newest quotes and hide the rest
• Optional Date/Time tag added to quotes in PMs
• Added enable/disable option for the entire product, in admincp
• Templates are now cached
  

0.9 (Dec 14, 2012)

• Initial Release

[goxy63]

Found what is the problem just now, problem is if message txt is wrapped with [COLOR] tags, check message with bb codes bellow:

[QUOTE=Administrator2][COLOR="Black"][B][QUOTE=Administrator2][COLOR="Black"][B][QUOTE=Administrator2][COLOR="Black"][B]testing testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testing[/B][/COLOR][/QUOTE]

testing testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testing[/B][/COLOR][/QUOTE]

testing testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testingtesting testing[/B][/COLOR][/QUOTE]

If no [COLOR] tags everything is just great :]

Thank you for your time

EDITED
I am using this mod, and this mod is setting users default txt color
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231923

[kh99]

Ah, great. Thanks, I'll look in to that tomorrow (and let's hope that it doesn't break the whole thing).

[goxy63]

Just tested in many different ways with color and bold tags, when in mentioned mod default color is excluded everything is working fine. That is if user manually choose color or bold txt your mod is working just fine which means that this mod is making trouble
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231923
Sorryz for problems, was thinkig its cause of your mod, probably I will just uninstall that mod as its not updated since 2010

Thank you for your time, cheers

[kh99]

Thanks. Yeah, I looked at it a little bit last night and came to the same conclusion - I'm not able to reproduce the problem no matter what I enter in the editor. At the same time, it doesn't look like that mod's doing anything wrong, it's just doing something different than what normally happens. So I'm still going to try to figure out a way to make it work. The biggest problem right now is my mod is a bit complicated, and I wrote most of it a couple months ago, now I don't remember how it works.

[jluerken]

Thanks kh99. Would be nice to add a "collapse" option so that only the last reply is completly visible and the rest is collapsed by default.
Should be an optional setting because I don't think everybody likes it.
For me this would be the option which makes this mod perfect ^^

[kh99]

I'll think about that. I had intended to have some different styles that were user-selectable, but finally decided that I'd never get it released if I tried to make it too complicated.

And as I mentioned in the description, if anyone wants to take a shot at improving the look of it, please do.

[justicechick]

Originally Posted by kh99

I'll think about that. I had intended to have some different styles that were user-selectable, but finally decided that I'd never get it released if I tried to make it too complicated.

And as I mentioned in the description, if anyone wants to take a shot at improving the look of it, please do.

WOO HOO!! Works great in my 4.2 solved a issue I had lots of complaints about. THANKS

[tbworld]

Nice mod KH99. I bet you put a few hours in this one! I had thought about doing something with this part of private messaging, but every time I looked at the code ... well you know.

Thanks!

[kh99]

Originally Posted by tbworld

Nice mod KH99. I bet you put a few hours in this one! I had thought about doing something with this part of private messaging, but every time I looked at the code ... well you know.

Thanks. Yeah, it's not very much code but it did take a while to work it out.

[craigvm]

great mod m8.installed