Private Message Workbench: Read, Search, Delete, Report and more

PM Workbench v1.00 Beta 5

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Hack: PM Workbench
Version: 1.00 Beta 5
Author: MarcoH64
vB Version: vBulletin 3.5.0. RC2
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Important Notice:
Depending on the modules installed, a privacy statement might be added to your board.
This Privacy Statement can not be removed or hidden by any means. Failure to comply would be against the TOS
of this hack, and you would not be allowed to use it.

If your board already has a Privacy Notice covering reading Private Messages by Administrators, you can PM me a link to that statement on your board (provide test login if needed) and your email address, and i will mail a Plugin to remove the Privacy link.


What is this hack?
PM Workbench offers you a variety of tools for working with or extending the standard vBulletin Private Message System.
It is a Modular System that will allow you to add those functions that you need for your board. New Modules might be added later.
The system is fully phrased and options can be set in vBulletin Options.
Permissions to use Modules are given using the includes/config.php for increased security.
Currently no file or template edits are needed.

More modules might be added later. For some i am waiting for new hooks to be implemented in RC3.



Donations are always welcomed to PayPal: marcoh64 AT gmail.com

Currently Supported Modules:

PM Workbench - Report PM

This Module adds a Report PM icon to the postbit when users are reading a PM. The reports and send to the PM Folder of the
userid defined to receive them. Administrators who are given access can read the reports, the original PM, and add notes to them.

Features:
- Access to the PM Reports is controlled in your config.php for added security
- Add report button to PM's, no template edit needed.
- Usersw can give a reason for the report.
- Reported PM's can be seen without modifications to them (PM's are not forwarded, but just added to the inbox of the report userid).
- PM's are fully parsed
- Notes can be added to reports.


PM Workbench - Read/Search Private Messages

This Module let administrators who are given permission, search and read PM's

Features:
- Access to the PM's is controlled in your config.php for added security
- PM's can be searched for:
- Keyword (title and/or body)
- Username (sender/receiver/both, optional exact match)
- Send date after
- Send date before
- With a simple click read the PM and see who still have it in their folders.


PM Workbench - Performance Pack

Add extra indexes to the pmtext table for faster searching.


Known limitations:
The 'Report PM' module might not work on some heavily modified Styles. I will be (hopefully) posting another (beta) hack for that tomorrow.

[Mag1c]

someone help, i installed the upload folder to my forum root, then installed the basic plugin then the pm search plugin.. but there is no "pm workbench" bar to view the pms in my admin cp

[Alfa1]

Marco; please see the suggestions in this thread on vbulletin.com.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

@Mag1c

Did you upload the contents of the upload folder to your forumhome directory?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

@Alfa1

First of all i don't have much time to work on any of my modifications, so a new (3.6) version with added functionality is not very likely to happen soon.

Also the suggestions in that thread (only read the first post) are mostly aimed at the end-user. This modification is more an admin tool. Also some of the suggestions seem outdated.

[Alfa1]

I can imagine that coordinating this site will take up your time. Would you feel for the idea to have another coder look into expanding and port your add-on?
There is a lot of potential in your already superb hack. Like a merge with the now dead keyword alerts and PM report threads.

[mlbvb]

Thanks SOOO much T2DMan!! That Array thing has been bugging me forever now!! Your edits worked like a charm!!

I really hope that other coders can keep this mod alive and up to date!

[GSM_electronic]

I keep getting this errors on the header of the PM page:

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of [runtime function name](). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in .../httpdocs/forum/private.php(194) : eval()'d code on line 9

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of [runtime function name](). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in .../httpdocs/forum/includes/functions_mh_pmwb.php on line 23

Hack was fully working on my site, some time ago...

Any help?

[Alfa1]

I just moved servers. When accessing the PM workbench, I am getting this message:

Sorry, you don't have permission to access the administrative controls on this page.

If you need to access this page, ask your lead administrator to enable your permissions for this page using the Administrator Permissions section of the control panel.

I am the leading admin and all my permissions are set correctly in the Administrator Permissions section of the control panel.

Any idea's?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Did you also add your userid to the config.php? (see install notes)

[FlyBoy73]

Marco, any plans to upgrade this to 3.7x?