Improved PM Folderview

TESTED ON 2.3.0 AND FOUND WORKING

What does it do?

You know it happens to me pretty often that my users wonder why they cannot receive any more pm's. the standard question "did you check your sent items folder?" is answered with the standard question "do i have a sent items folder?"...

to avoid that, this hack shows the user on the privatemessage mainpage which folders they have in a list with the ability to add a folder without having to switch to the folders template.

aditionally, i modified the pmgauge enhanced hack by WWW.TOTAL-IMPACT.COM aka princeton a little and included it.

so, its nothing special, but maybe some people like it.
note: im new to this, so the code might be very ugly...

instructions:

1) follow instructions.txt

Credits: The_Sisko, mystics and boofo for finding bugs and helping with the code

Please notice this add-on by matt that allows you to have the amount of messages in each folder displayed next to it. Working on 2.2.9 too.

NOTICE: If you installed the private messages backup hack by Cano2 which is found here, you will have to to change a bit in the instructions.txt:

where it says to find:

PHP Code:

  //get correct folder name
  if ($folderid=="0") { 


you will need to find the SECOND instance as the private message backup hack adds another instance of this code to the file.

NOTICE2: if you installed the PM Quota by Usergroup Hack by g-force2k2 that can be found here then the solution to make both work together is here

please click install if you use it, thank you

kreftt

[refertech]

What version of IE you using?
I'm using IE 6 sp1 and mine works fine.
vb 2.2.9

[msimplay]

weird it works fine for me too
explorer 6

[kreftt]

please put your templates in textfiles and send them to kreftt@gmx.com, then i will have a look

thanks

kreftt

[Alien]

Hey, just wanted to pop in real quick and say thanks for an awesome hack.

Installed and working flawlessly in vB 2.3.0 final!

Regards,
-Jason

[Frozen Dreams]

Hey Krefft - I have seen this hack on about every VB I have been a member at so far - so I installed it too ... however the images dont work for me ...
I don't get the %-bar unterneath the quota (however it displays how much I used up in numbers) ... I checked and the images are loaded up to the correct folders.

I am german too - so maybe pm me or contact me on msn
would be great if you could help me there - awesome hack it is - and I want it to work

[kreftt]

pm sent

[RetroDreams]

How do you get it so you can delete folders?

[ogden2k]

Awesome hack! Only problem is, I can't get the folder count to show. I read through about all of the posts here... I have vB 2.3.0

[kreftt]

@RetroDreams

you can use the normal way by clicking on "folders" and deleting from there. unfortunately i dont fully understand the code vbb uses for the deletion of folders so i cant make a little "delete"-button besides each folder in the list.

@ogden2k

you might want to check the first post as it contains a link to the addon that enables the messages count in each folder.

greets

kreftt

[Courage]

One of my users has this problem:

I has no PM (sent or Received), but the hack show 81% occupied

See the image