[RELEASE] Private Messaging Hack (v0.9) !!!!!!!

Woo-freaking-hoo!

Here it is, the vB PM hack! NEWLY CHANGED TO VERSION 1.2.0 - please reference this thread now: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...?threadid=1772

It can be downloaded from here: http://www.enter.net/~rmsullivan/pmhack1.2.zip . The instructions are included within that.

Demo at: http://www.magic-singles.com/cpa/forums/ . If you MUST register to test it, ok, I guess. I'll be adding screenshots so you know what it's like soon.

Now UPDATED to version 0.9.15 !!!! Several bug fixes, additional support for linking to posts and nicer delete methods (thanks bira!)

Please note that the UBB import script has NOT been done yet - sorry. Soon though.

Enjoy! Post and questions/comments/bug reports here!

[Edited by Ed Sullivan on 07-16-2000 at 11:31 PM]

Yes, bira, I did. (why is it always me who has problems ?! )

Thanks for the templates - i'll finish tinkering with those for the 'internal pages' then add them and see where we end up

Wow, 30 actual replies in like 10 hours

Bad time to go to sleep, eh? Now, 5 minutes after I get up, back to coding....

Anywho, I'll patch up my code for v1.1.2 ASAP, which'll probably be in the next 10 minutes

Also, I'll try to fix any other problems I can and add a mass delete feature - might be easy, not sure how PHP handles checkboxes (Perl doesn't like them)

So, anyway... v0.9.1 will be coming out soon

Ed, not sure why, but my 'edit ignore list' link is returning a document with no data error. Is this working elsewhere ?

Ed,

Seeing as we've made a few hacks to your hack () - can you please let us know, when you post v0.91, the changes so we won't have to start from scratch?

By the way, another option I would really like to see is an icon or a link ("send private message") that I can add to the user's post, the user's profile and the user's memberslist line -- similar to the email/www.

It shouldn't be hard. If you can just give me the syntax for the url (something like private.php?action=newmessage&password=&reply=fals e?userid=$userid) then I can take it from there

Oh and again - thank you for this fantastic hack!

Originally posted by Craig Antill
Ed, not sure why, but my 'edit ignore list' link is returning a document with no data error. Is this working elsewhere ?

working perfectly fine here.

Craig, are you sure the makeprivtables.php returned successful results? It sounds like you're missing some stuff

Erm, well it said it did... *wished he'd never started*

Craig: Expect even more fun over the next few days as this hack undergoes 'rapid development'. I mean we've messed around with it quite a bit in just these few hours.

We've got the rewritten 1.1.2 version to come next.

Like bira said the addition of a 'message this person' icon on each post seems the most important add on for the moment.

But also what will need to be done is for the front page a last message time and who the last message was by including the 'blue arrow' to give it a consistent look.

That's all very nice, but i'm more concerned about getting my system up and running right now Any idea why this is broken on my server ?

I have just taken a look and I have the following tables in my database, should I have any more, and if so, how do I create them ?

privatesent
privatercvd

OK,

To have an icon on posts with "send Private Message to USERNAME" create an icon of your choice, upload it to the bb images dir, and then go to edit the postbit template.

Add, where you have the profile, email, etc., the following:

<a href="http://www.atlasf1.com/bb/private.php?action=newmessage&table=privatercvd&reply=true&touser=$username"><img src="images/YOURICON.gif" border=0 alt="Send private message to $username"></a>

That's it -- tested and proven to work

Originally posted by Craig Antill
That's all very nice, but i'm more concerned about getting my system up and running right now Any idea why this is broken on my server ?

I have just taken a look and I have the following tables in my database, should I have any more, and if so, how do I create them ?

privatesent
privatercvd

Craig, if you don't mind losing the changes you made to the pm templates, then just run makeprivtables.php again - it will delete and rebuild the necessary tables.