PM Preview 3.5 Edition

This is a 3.5 Rewrite of my old hack, now using the plugin system (woo hoo!)

install the attached plugin and then make the following modification to the pm_messagelistbit template.

find:

	<td class="alt1Active" id="m$pm[pmid]" width="100%">
		<div>
			<span style="float:$stylevar[right]" class="smallfont">$pm[senddate]</span>
			<a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]do=showpm&amp;pmid=$pm[pmid]"><if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$pm[title]</strong><else />$pm[title]</if></a>
		</div>
		<div class="smallfont">
			<span style="float:$stylevar[right]" class="time">$pm[sendtime]</span>
			<if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$userbit</strong><else />$userbit</if>
		</div>
	
	</td>

replace with:

	<td class="alt1Active" id="m$pm[pmid]" width="100%">
		<div>
			<span style="float:$stylevar[right]" class="time" style="font-size:9px;">$pm[senddate] @ $pm[sendtime]</span>
			<a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]do=showpm&amp;pmid=$pm[pmid]"><if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$pm[title]</strong><else />$pm[title]</if></a> (<if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$userbit</strong><else />$userbit</if> )
		</div>
		<div class="smallfont">
		<i>$pm[pmpreview]</i>	
		</div>
	
	</td>

Extras

To change the length of the preview
Goto the Plugin Manager and in Hook Location : private_messagelist_messagebit find PM Preview v1 click "Edit" and towards the end of it find 300 and increase/reduce the value to lengthen/shorten the preview.

ALTERNATIVE VERSION: Thanks to Erwin for the suggestion
If you would rather have the preview show in a tooltip rather than show it below the PM title then change the required code in pm_messagelistbit to:

alternative code:

	<td class="alt1Active" id="m$pm[pmid]" width="100%" title="$pm[pmpreview]">
		<div>
			<span style="float:$stylevar[right]" class="smallfont">$pm[senddate]</span>
			<a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]do=showpm&amp;pmid=$pm[pmid]"><if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$pm[title]</strong><else />$pm[title]</if></a>
		</div>
		<div class="smallfont">
			<span style="float:$stylevar[right]" class="time">$pm[sendtime]</span>
			<if condition="$show['unread']"><strong>$userbit</strong><else />$userbit</if>
		</div>
	
	</td>

and that's all folks.. please remember to click the install and always tip your waitress.

[ShadowOne]

works great with 3.5.1.....thanks for the great hack...

[Megareus Rex]

Excellent hack, I loved it on 3.0.

*installed

3.5.3 no problems, quick question:

How do I change the alt background of the preview area? Currently it's the same color as the message title (alt1) and I'd like to make it alt2.

/me clicks install

[lamilein]

Originally Posted by Chris-777

3.5.3 no problems, quick question:

How do I change the alt background of the preview area? Currently it's the same color as the message title (alt1) and I'd like to make it alt2.

[high]* Chris-777 clicks install[/high]

quick and dirty: edit the xml file of the plugin and re-install it

better: [APM] Advanced Product Management 2.0.3 and edit the html online in the vB database

[VBUsers]

installed and works great thanks!

[Oblivion Knight]

Cool.!

I'm using the tooltip edit, and replaced the 300 with:
$vbulletin->options['threadpreview']

Eventually you may want to consider turning this in to a product, with it's own setting(s). There's plenty of room for expansion with this..

[Ramsesx]

Very nice, thank you

[drex]

mine only shows the list of messages, and no preview.

i don't know WTF is wrong.

i uploaded the plugin. where does the HOOK go? mine is at ajax start. if i put it to pm_messagebit, i get a bunch of errors.

please help!

[hotwheels]

Originally Posted by drex

mine only shows the list of messages, and no preview.

i don't know WTF is wrong.

i uploaded the plugin. where does the HOOK go? mine is at ajax start. if i put it to pm_messagebit, i get a bunch of errors.

please help!

You are going into the plug in manager right? In the plugin manager, locate your pm preview and click edit........toward's the end of the code, you will see something like this:

$pm['pmpreview'] = strip_quotes($pm['message']);
$pm['pmpreview'] = htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbc ode(fetch_censored_text($pm['pmpreview']), false, true), 75));

and where the 75 is, that will probably be 300 or so on your's, change it to what ever you want..............i am still using his older version, and it work's like a champ.

[drex]

yep, that's where i am at

PHP Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
- <plugins>
- <plugin active="1" product="vbulletin">
  <title>PM Preview v1</title> 
  <hookname>private_messagelist_messagebit</hookname> 
- <phpcode>
- <![CDATA[ 
$pm['pmpreview'] = strip_quotes($pm['message']);
$pm['pmpreview'] = htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbcode(fetch_censored_text($pm['pmpreview']), false, true), 300));

  ]]> 
  </phpcode>
  </plugin>
  </plugins>

any ideas?