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

[LouChipher]

>... should be done, worked for me.

no..

[DiSS Troya]

excellent job on the hack!

[kreftt]

could u attach your private.php then here please?

i think thats the easiest if i take a look at your code...

kreftt

[Mystics]

Hi,

if you have an user on your ignore list, and get a PM from him, you can't see the PM but the Gauge Hack counts it to the number of total PMs.

On the start page (index.php) you don't see this PM, because the the ignored users are excluded.

To fix this you should replace (in private.php and private2.php):

PHP Code:

  $msgcount = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS messages FROM privatemessage WHERE userid=$bbuserinfo[userid]"); 


with

PHP Code:

  $ignoreusers="";
  if (trim($bbuserinfo['ignorelist'])!="") {
    $ignoreusers='AND fromuserid<>'.implode(' AND fromuserid<>',explode(' ', trim($bbuserinfo['ignorelist'])));
  }
  $msgcount = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS messages FROM privatemessage WHERE userid=$bbuserinfo[userid] $ignoreusers"); 


Mystics

[sub]

Awesome hack!

[kreftt]

sorry im late.

thanks a lot, i didnt even notice the bug as i dont use the ignorelist

i updated the zip with your fix, thanks again

greets

kreftt

[JulianD]

Hey kreftt, great hack!! I don't know why I missed it when it was released! But now I founded it and I think it's great! Thanks! Going to install it tomorrow!

Thanks again!

[eg_92901]

Great hack. No problems installing and it is so much easier to use than the default PM settup. I do have 2 questions though:

1. The font and color of the table header text for the "Folders" "Add Folders" and "Quota" tables don't match the rest of my site. I've had this problem on other pages too. Anyone know how I can fix that?

2. How do you make it so you see how many messages are in each folder like the example screenshot shot?

[Ordovicium]

I love this hack. Thank you very much.

[kreftt]

eg_92901:

1)
my fault fault, i didnt use the tableheadtextcolor-replacement

at the moment, the font&color for "Folder" and the other two are set to <normalfont><b>Folder</b></normalfont>

this means it should at least be the right font. to give it the same color like your other table headings, try sth like:

<normalfont color="{ tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Folder</b></normalfont>

WITHOUT the space between the { and the t

note: this is to be found in PRIVFOLDER template easily be searching for "Folder<"

2)this is the addon made by matt and posted in the beta-releases forum too.
( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=36840 )

note: this addon works fine on vbb 2.24, thats what the screenshot was made of. in 2.25 the code parts this addon depends on were changed and at least i have been unable to port the addon over to 2.25. so if you are already running 2.25, consider using a test board first...

and if u get the addon to run on 2.25 --> post it

greets

kreftt