New PM Popup Replacement

[high]PLEASE CLICK INSTALL IF YOU INSTALL THIS[/high]

This mod changes the default New PM Popup to open a nice looking, closeable html popup within the page.

It tells you who sent the latest message as well as what the title is.

The window then gives you the option of viewing the message (in which case it opens another window and closes itself), viewing your inbox (again it will close the popup), or to just ignore the new message and close the New PM popup.

A screenshot is attached to show you what the popup will look like.

To install all you need to do is make 1 template edit to each of your skins, upload 1 XML plugin file, and upload 1 file with your ftp client.

[high]Installation[/high]

First go to your pm_popup_script template and replace it with this code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/fixed_position_ie.js"></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
    var agtbrw=navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
    var operaaa=(agtbrw.indexOf('opera')!=-1);
    var head="display:''";
    var folder='';
    function expandit(curobj)
    {
        if(document.getElementById(curobj))
        {
            folder=document.getElementById(curobj).style;
        }
        else
        {
            if(ns6==1||operaaa==true)
            {
                folder=curobj.nextSibling.nextSibling.style;
            }
            else
            {
                folder=document.all[curobj.sourceIndex+1].style;
            }
        }
        if (folder.display=="none")
        {
            folder.display="";
        }
        else
        {
            folder.display="none";
        }
    }
</script>
<style type="text/css">
#pm_popup {
    position:fixed;
    top:250px;
    border:1px solid;
    width:64%;
    margin-right:18%;
    margin-left:18%;
}

</style>
<div id="pm_popup">
    <table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
        <tr>
            <td class="tcat">
                <span class="smallfont" style="float:$stylevar[right]">
                    <a href="#" onclick="expandit('pm_popup');">Close</a>
                </span>
                $vbphrase[new_private_msg]
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="panelsurround" align="center">
                <div class="panel">
                    <div align="center">
                        <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    $vbphrase[newest_pm_from] <b>$newpm[fromusername]</b>, $vbphrase[titled]<b>'$newpm[title]'</b>
                                    <br />
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <if condition="$shownewpmpreview">
                            <tr>
                                <td class="smallfont" style="padding-top:20px;">
                                    $newpm[message]
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            </if>
                            <tr>
                                <td align="center" style="padding-top:20px;">
                                    <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=$newpm[pmid]">$vbphrase[read_message]</a>
                                    (<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=$newpm[pmid]" target="_blank">
                                        <span class="smallfont">$vbphrase[open_new_window]</span>
                                    </a>)
                                    <br /><br />
                                    <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/private.php">$vbphrase[go_to_inbox]</a>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        </table>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-top:$stylevar[cellpadding]px">
                    <form>
                        <input type="button" class="button" value="$vbphrase[close_popup]" onclick="expandit('pm_popup');" />
                    </form>
                </div>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div>

The above step will need to be done for each of your skins.

Next, go to the plugin manager:
Go to your admincp -> Expand Plugin System in the nav -> Click Manage Products -> Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Add/Import -> Browse to the xml file included in the zip -> upload

Now access your FTP and upload the attached 'fixed_position_ie.js' file to your clientscript/ folder. This js allows Internet Explorer to do fixed positioning meaning that the popup stays in place as you scroll the screen.

That's it, enjoy.

[high]How To Enable Preview[/high]
To enable the preview in the popup (view the screenshot to see what it looks like), just edit the plugin called "New PM Popup Window Preview" with the following instructions:
Go to your admincp -> Expand Plugin System in the nav -> Click Plugin Manager -> Click edit next to the "New PM Popup Window Preview" plugin

Now find, right at the top, this line:
$newpmoption['showpreview'] = false;

Change to:
$newpmoption['showpreview'] = true;


The preview is now enabled. To change how many characters are shown in the preview, go back to editing the plugin and change this line (near the top):
$newpmoption['maxcharacters'] = 100;


[high]To uninstall this hack just revert the pm_popup_script template then delete the uploaded file (/clientscript/fixed_position_ie.js) and the plugin.[/high]


Thanks to COBRAws for adding phrases.

Tested and works fully in the vB3.5 series (vb 3.5.0 ("Gold") up to 3.5.4).
Should work in vb3.6, the variables look to be the same.
This will probably work in vb3.0 series too but I don't remember if I've tested. I'm not promising.
If anyone wants to confirm that it fully works please PM me or post here.

[Lizard King]

<script type="text/javascript">
	<!--
	//pm popup script
	var winobj = window.open("private.php?do=pmpopup", "pmnew", "menubar=no,scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,resizable=no,top=  50,left=50,height=275,width=410");
	if (winobj == null)
	{
		alert("$vbphrase[window_open_failed_blocker]");
	}
	// /pm popup script 
	//-->
</script>

You may want to change the first template to this one everybody installs in a different directory

[Keyser S?ze]

see i dont get this, cuz the default PM popup works fine if u have a popup blocker running, but this does not, how come?

[Aeolian_X]

Had to use Lizard Kings script above to get it to work, but it still doesn't show the PM sender's name for some reason.

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by Aeolian_X

Had to use Lizard Kings script above to get it to work, but it still doesn't show the PM sender's name for some reason.

There are couple bugs with it.
1. is as you mentioned senders username is not visible
2. if you have unread pm and you receive a new one , it doesn't give any warning
3. ıf you receive more then 1 pm it only shows 1 pm received.

P.S : It is not my script , there was a error and i just figured it out.

[rossco_2005]

Originally Posted by Lizard King

<script type="text/javascript">
	<!--
	//pm popup script
	var winobj = window.open("private.php?do=pmpopup", "pmnew", "menubar=no,scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,resizable=no,top=  50,left=50,height=275,width=410");
	if (winobj == null)
	{
		alert("$vbphrase[window_open_failed_blocker]");
	}
	// /pm popup script 
	//-->
</script>

You may want to change the first template to this one everybody installs in a different directory

Sorry that is what i meant to put, i just copied from the wrong style. :disappointed:

[rossco_2005]

Originally Posted by Lizard King

There are couple bugs with it.
1. is as you mentioned senders username is not visible
2. if you have unread pm and you receive a new one , it doesn't give any warning
3. ıf you receive more then 1 pm it only shows 1 pm received.

P.S : It is not my script , there was a error and i just figured it out.

Just fixed number 1, in the template pm_pmpopup '$newpm['username']' should have been '$newpm['fromusername']'...I have no idea how that got changed, i guess i (again) copied from the wrong style.

Number 2 i dont understand, are you saying if you have more than 1 PM the popup doesnt come up at all, or that it doesn't come up for each of the PMs? :blink:

And number 3 is how it's supposed to work, it only tells you the latest PM, not all of them.

[weaver]

Works fine for me.

[weaver]

Actually this morning I noticed that something about it is not working correctly. Yesterday when I tested it, I clicked on go to inbox and that worked fine. This morning when I clicked 'read this message' I received an error message:

Invalid Private Message specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator.

This is the link it tried going to:

/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=

For some reason it's not adding the id number at the end of the link.

[rossco_2005]

Originally Posted by weaver

Actually this morning I noticed that something about it is not working correctly. Yesterday when I tested it, I clicked on go to inbox and that worked fine. This morning when I clicked 'read this message' I received an error message:



This is the link it tried going to:

/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=

For some reason it's not adding the id number at the end of the link.

Thanks, in pm_pmpopup, $newpm[id] should be $newpm[pmid]

[akanevsky]

Come on, this is 3.5 and it has AJAX.
Why don't you make it AJAX based instead, rather than a popup that often won't work (after being cut off by firewall)