PM Preview 3.5 Edition

This is a 3.5 Rewrite of my old hack, now using the plugin system (woo hoo!)

install the attached plugin and then make the following modification to the pm_messagelistbit template.

find:

	<td class="alt1Active" id="m$pm[pmid]" width="100%">
		<div>
			<span style="float:$stylevar[right]" class="smallfont">$pm[senddate]</span>
			<a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]do=showpm&amp;pmid=$pm[pmid]"><if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$pm[title]</strong><else />$pm[title]</if></a>
		</div>
		<div class="smallfont">
			<span style="float:$stylevar[right]" class="time">$pm[sendtime]</span>
			<if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$userbit</strong><else />$userbit</if>
		</div>
	
	</td>

replace with:

	<td class="alt1Active" id="m$pm[pmid]" width="100%">
		<div>
			<span style="float:$stylevar[right]" class="time" style="font-size:9px;">$pm[senddate] @ $pm[sendtime]</span>
			<a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]do=showpm&amp;pmid=$pm[pmid]"><if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$pm[title]</strong><else />$pm[title]</if></a> (<if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$userbit</strong><else />$userbit</if> )
		</div>
		<div class="smallfont">
		<i>$pm[pmpreview]</i>	
		</div>
	
	</td>

Extras

To change the length of the preview
Goto the Plugin Manager and in Hook Location : private_messagelist_messagebit find PM Preview v1 click "Edit" and towards the end of it find 300 and increase/reduce the value to lengthen/shorten the preview.

ALTERNATIVE VERSION: Thanks to Erwin for the suggestion
If you would rather have the preview show in a tooltip rather than show it below the PM title then change the required code in pm_messagelistbit to:

alternative code:

	<td class="alt1Active" id="m$pm[pmid]" width="100%" title="$pm[pmpreview]">
		<div>
			<span style="float:$stylevar[right]" class="smallfont">$pm[senddate]</span>
			<a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]do=showpm&amp;pmid=$pm[pmid]"><if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$pm[title]</strong><else />$pm[title]</if></a>
		</div>
		<div class="smallfont">
			<span style="float:$stylevar[right]" class="time">$pm[sendtime]</span>
			<if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$userbit</strong><else />$userbit</if>
		</div>
	
	</td>

and that's all folks.. please remember to click the install and always tip your waitress.

[EasyTarget]

installed on 3.5.4 and working without any problems so far.

I would like to customize it though so that clicking anywhere on the preview opens the message instead of having to click on the message title, so I moved the </a> from after the title to after the pmpreview section, which did work.

However, now all the text has an underline under it. Is there a way to disable the underline under links in just the preview section without affecting all the other links?

[ramone_johnny]

Dammit, another hack installed and nothing.

Hang on - I do have something - an error!

private.php

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\vbforum\private.php(1456) : eval()'d code on line 1

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\vbforum\private.php(1456) : eval()'d code on line 1

Please help!

RJ

[rice]

ok..
just revisiting this...
will someone please advise what should hook location be set to for plugin??

thanks a lot

[akanevsky]

You don't need to worry about hook location, you simply import the xml.

[rice]

well it plug-ins default to ajax_start hook location...can't put it there because it conflicts with something else i have...
says its not a product see below

This file appears to be a Plugin, not a Product. Please use the Plugin Manager to add this file.

any help is appreciated.

thx

[rice]

mr newbie rice finally figured this out..thanks for patience all

hook location below:
private_messagelist_messagebit

mmmender-hope this helps you out.

cheers,

rice

[MissKalunji]

does this work with 3.6?

[Oblivion Knight]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

does this work with 3.6?

Yes, I have it working fine on my 3.6.0 installation..

[nix]

Originally Posted by Oblivion Knight

Yes, I have it working fine on my 3.6.0 installation..

Good to here. Gonna install it now. Loved this on 3.5

[Freezerator]

Very nice hack and a lot of happy members when i installed this, but only one question.

Can there be an addon or somekind so this is an user setting? So that an user can turn this on or off?