Private Messages Enhancements - Private Message Quote Formatting

What is it?
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This mod arranges quotes in a PM to be in a "conversational" order instead of being nested. This solves the problem of displaying deeply-nested quotes. This mod also has an option to add a date/time stamp to quoted PMs.

Also, I'm not much of an html/css person - this mod mostly provides variables which can be checked in the template, and a bare-bones css file. If anyone comes up with css for a better looking format and wants to share it, please do (and maybe I'll put it in a later version).

(vb4 version is here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=292968)


Installation:
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Just import the product XML file from the Product Manager. This doesn't change stored PMs in any way (unless you enable the date/time stamp option - see below), so you can uninstall or disable the product at any time to go back to the original PM template.

If you'd like to customize the format, you can edit the kh99_pm_quote, kh99_pm_quote_bit, and/or the kh99_pm_quote.css templates.

If you want to add date/time tags to PM quotes, go to the adminCP options under "Private Messaging Options" and set "Add Date and Time to Quotes" to yes. Note that if you later uninstall this mod, any messages quoted while this option was on will still contain a date/time tag, but it will display after the name in a default format and timezone. If this is a concern, it's probably better that you don't enable this option.

Also note that the date/time option only adds the timestamp to newly quoted messages - it will not add one to quotes in existing messages.

Note: Because I forgot to set a product id for version 0.90, when upgrading from 0.90 to a later version the mod installs as a separate product so that it looks like this mod is installed twice. If that happens you should just be able to uninstall version 0.9.

History:
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1.0 (Jan 01, 2013)

• Fixed issue with white page on some forums
• All templates now cached (I hope).
  

0.91 (Dec 22, 2012)

• Fixed conflict with at least one mod that adds default text formmating
• Fixed problem with html in pm notification email
• Option to show only N newest quotes and hide the rest
• Optional Date/Time tag added to quotes in PMs
• Added enable/disable option for the entire product, in admincp
• Templates are now cached
  

0.9 (Dec 14, 2012)

• Initial Release

[Kolektor]

thanks for this. it's good to see that still there are coders making mods for 3.8.x series.

[ctrlbrk]

Looks good. But what about adding a date/time header to each quote box?

Also you need to cache your templates.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by ctrlbrk

Looks good. But what about adding a date/time header to each quote box?

I was just thinking about that a couple days ago. The existing quotes don't have that information available, but I'll see how hard it would be to add for new quotes.

Also you need to cache your templates.

I can't believe I forgot all about that. Thanks.

[ctrlbrk]

There is another (major) problem, apparently the formatting of emails is messed up with half-HTML half-CSS half-original text.

For example here is a PM email

http://screencast.com/t/ZgwWxxBq

[kh99]

Could you post the message (showing bbcode) that caused that?

[ctrlbrk]

Originally Posted by kh99

Could you post the message (showing bbcode) that caused that?

Best I can tell, any/all PM's that contain a quote (vb quote) will trigger the problem.

No bbcode being used or inserted by the user.

Examples:
http://screencast.com/t/iQOyaszXjY

First user sent "test 123" then second user replied "reply test", and the resulting email was:

http://screencast.com/t/bfJwu9uOTFQk

[kh99]

Oh, I see. I missed that you were talking about the email. I'll look in to that, thanks.

[Max Taxable]

I am watching this - I'm guilty of asking for this for v3.... So throw rocks at ME if it causes problems meanwhile I'll just wait and let the rest of you take all the risk!

[kh99]

Well, that's why it's beta - I haven't tested it a lot. I don't think I even looked at a PM email when this was installed because it never occurred to me that it could be a problem.

Edit: oops - I forgot to mark the vb3 version as beta....

[Max Taxable]

Normally I test stuff full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes, but on this one I'm not sure if will uninstall completely. Otherwise I would have right at it.