[RELEASE] Private Messaging (PM) Hack, v 1.2.0

It's HEREEEEE!

version 1.2.0, with so much increase functionality, including:
* Checkbox deletion/moving
* Lightbulb/last message by on index.php
* Icon for "Send Private Message" in posts
* Multiple folders for organization of PMs
* Designation of replied to messages
* Message quotas (untested, but should work fine)
* Sends email when message box is full
* Message forwarding
* Previous/Next PM when viewing
* Direct link to last message from index.php
* Receive email when PMed
* Usergroup function to turn off PMs
* Individual ability to turn off PMs
* index.php code bugfixed
* VERY simple PM stats (/private.php?action=checkstats)
* Banned IP checking
* and more...

Stats I posted elsewhere too:
* 35+ templates
* 4 new profile fields
* 3 new tables
* 1 new field to usergroup table

I was able to set up a stock 1.1.3b3 test board and the hack installed successfully. Upgrading shouldn't be a problem either, except for the template changes. I HIGHLY suggest you overwrite the templates in upgrade-template.txt and re-edit from there.

All other instructions should be located in the .zip.

<download removed -- see http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...?threadid=4405 >

[Edited by Ed Sullivan on 01-02-2001 at 07:13 PM]

You can't append numbers to the "name" attributes.

action3 should be action
table2 -> table
password3 -> password

etc, etc, etc.

Thanks for the help Mike, but it's still not fixed

The original problem occured because I was playing around a lot with Dreamweaver editing the template, and copying the form around a couple times led to the problems.

Here's the current status:
I can jump from folder to folder with no problem.
When I hit delete, I get the message that the file was deleted, but when transferred back to my inbox the message is still there.
When I try moving it to a different folder, I get this message "can't move to nonexistant folder."

Here's my code one more time:

<form action="private.php" method="POST">
<div align="center"><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica"><b>Checked Items:</b></font>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="domove">
<input type="hidden" name="table" value="$table">
<input type="hidden" name="password" value="$password">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete">
<FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica"><b>or</b></font>
<input type="Submit" name="submit" value="Move">
<FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica"><b>to</b></font>
<select name="select">
<option value="0">Inbox</option>$folderjump
</select>
</div>
</form>

<input type="checkbox" name="msgs[$msgid]" value="yes">

Thanks again. If you want to see it in action, here's a link to my forum http://www.basswriters.com/forums

The <select> part is wrong. Should be:

<SELECT name="thefolder">

And FYI, the default templates are included with the hack, so you might wanna take a look at those.

okay i am game Ed ... going to install PM this weekend most likely, so is there anything going to be added or modified to it between now and then ?

Installed everything and maked a few changes to the templates to fit my Board, but:

In the USer Profile:
Receive Email On PM ON/OFF

this didn't Work! I can check On or Off, when I go back to the Profile it's still off!
In case off get private message in the profile it's also on Off, but you get pm + same prob here like the one above with the email!

Can anyone help???

http://www.star-trek-forum.de

The_Sisko

Ed:

If you get a private message and then read it, if you go back to the main forum index you shouldn't have an indicator that tells you that you have a new message should you? Doesn't this get automatically set so that it is no longer a new message and just gets kept in the total count?

The way that I see it now is that it tells me that I have a new message all the time even though I read it. Shouldn't this get reset?

Am I missing something here?

Parker

Parker - I use vB's last visit time to determine if the message is new or not. Completely unrelated to read or not (I don't even track if it's been read at all anyway)

So what is the lag time between when your last visit time and new visit time when the pm will no longer show you that you have a new private message?

Parker

More correctly, it uses the same method as the rest of the light bulbs on index.php - it draws from your cookie.

So, whenever that is updated.

Ed:

Ok, I see that now. Is there anyway that you could write it so that you could make a private message as being read once you have read it? What I am trying to do here is reset the new message count to zero once you have read a message.

Parker

[Edited by Parker Clack on 08-08-2000 at 09:26 AM]