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

[Courage]

Somethig is strange. The deleted PM are still in the DB but on the folderid is -1 !!!

This is normal ?

[Restless_ca]

Lovely hack. Very very nice.

[kreftt]

i dont think this is normal. this hack doesnt change a thing in the code to delete a pm though

[Courage]

Look in to the database using phpmyadmin. You will see that the mesages that you have sent to others are still there ! (even if you dont have any message reported on sent folder)

They have folderid = -1

[ap0c]

installed, good hack

[kreftt]

05-12-03 at 02:35 AM Courage said this in Post #174
Look in to the database using phpmyadmin. You will see that the mesages that you have sent to others are still there ! (even if you dont have any message reported on sent folder)

They have folderid = -1

im sorry i cannot reproduce this.
after i delete my messages from sent folder the percentage bar drops down like it should, the number behind the folder says 0 like it should and the followng query:

SELECT COUNT(*) AS FROM privatemessage WHERE userid=1 AND folderid='-1'

results in 0 too, just like it should. and there is really nothing to change by my hack that could cause this behaviour.
feel free to send me over your files AND your templates that start with priv_ to kreftt[at]uni.de
your board-url would be nice too.

greets

kreftt

[RetroDreams]

Has anyone looked into the ability to delete custom folders in the main PM Center view?

[padblaz]

wow, really nice
thanks for this hack, my users already love it

[MarkL]

I don't see the PM Quota Bar. I have the Quota part, but there is no bar going across. Can anyone help me? :$

[MarkL]

*bump* Anyone? :$