Private Messaging Hack...

No, I'm not asking for it, nor am I asking when it's coming, because I already know. Why do I know? Well, because I'm writing it

Not THAT far in yet though, but with school ending very soon (next Tues.), I look to have it done by say... June 20-25, since I go on vacation very soon after that

Ummm... yeah, so watch this space

Nice to see you help out the community and give the people what they want!

Mafukie! I love that smiley in your sig! That rules!

Sweeeet Can't wait!!

It seems the most improtant hacks are made, or are in the making (memberlist, user image, PM)
Can't wait

hehe, lovely smilie
I remember that some boards had a great ammount of moral debate over that one.

Well, I may actually be ahead of a June 20 release date: I got a lot done.

* Logging in
* Viewing message list (a la forumdisplay)
* Viewing message
* Installation script

For the basic script, all I need to do is add the reply/new message functions, which are almost the same.

So, if you want to give me some feature requests (like ignore or something), please do.

As I said, if the script continues to advance at this pace and there isn't much bug fixing, it'll be out before the 20th - 15th/16th maybe

Woohoo!

Also, I talked to John about it a little and he said he's going to include an upgrade path from my version to the official version *cheers* The monopoly is almost complete! (sorry, inside joke kinda)

Also, if I can, I'd like to include an import feature from the UBB PM's, but I'm not sure how that is going to work. Don't worry, I'll try *more cheers*

[Edited by Ed Sullivan on 06-08-2000 at 09:59 PM]

Ed:

Just make sure that when someone post a message or replies to one that their password is encrypted.

With the UBB private messages the username and password can be seen and if you run any type of log analysis file all that information is available from the log files.

I look forward to this hack for sure.

Parker

can't wait!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Parker Clack
Just make sure that when someone post a message or replies to one that their password is encrypted.

Actually, your username/pass doesn't get passed through the query string - the hack uses vB's cookies (which means that you must have cookies enabled, sorry)

Jeez, I may have to push this release date UP again

The basic features are fully functional now:
"forumdisplay" like views for:
* received messages
* sent messages
(Separate tables, so you'll have your own "sent items" type folder)
Message view:
* vB code
* signatures
* icons
* smilies (anyone want the checkbox to disable smilies?)
Replying/New Message:
* Auto-filling in of some fields
* umm... Linking to memberlist

Note lack of ignore feature now

Also found my first major bug: if the user doesn't store their username/password, they can't login Hopefully I'll be able to work around that without rewriting the whole thing...