Send PMs (automatically)

[Antivirus]

Does anyone know if there's a setting which can be used within ($pmdm->set(...)) for whether or not to parse html? In other words, if the text sent in the PM is allowed to use html?

[fly]

Was something changed on 3.6? This code no longer works:

PHP Code:

    // create the DM to do error checking and insert the new PM 
        $pmdm =& datamanager_init('PM', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_SILENT); 
        $pmdm->set('fromuserid', $fromuser['userid']); 
        $pmdm->set('fromusername', $fromuser['username']); 
        $pmdm->set_info('receipt', false); 
        $pmdm->set_info('savecopy', false); 
        $pmdm->set('title', "Important information regarding your registration!"); 
        $pmdm->set('message', "[center][b]AUTOGENERATED PM[/b][/center] "); 
        $pmdm->set_recipients($userinfo['username'], $fromuser['permissions']); 
        $pmdm->set('dateline', TIMENOW); 
        $pmdm->save(); 


I haven't changed any of the code from 3.5 since the upgrade, so something in there no longer works. Any idea what it is?

Okay, I got it working, but there is no popup for the user about a PM. Any ideas?

[Cebby]

This seems like a good place to ask

I'm creating a link in a vB powered page (template) for a user to send a PM to me on a specific subject (just like you can do with EM very easily). I want it to open the PM, address it, and fill in the title of the PM, then wait for the user to enter their message.

Can this be done in 3.6.1?

[DigitalCrowd]

I have to do this to get private messages to update correctly in most cases. In a few specific cases, I don't have too. But, don't remember off the top my head which one.

$db->query_write("UPDATE vb_user SET pmunread=pmunread+1,pmtotal=pmtotal+1 WHERE userid=$userid");

That will do the trick everytime.

[HPIA]

Where does this go exactly XD?

[CyberRanger]

Originally Posted by Andreas

If you want to send PMs no matter if the PM box of the recipient is full or not:

PHP Code:

$botpermissions['adminpermissions'] = 2; 


Thx for the wonderful tutorial. I've used your guide to develop an add-on to one of my products.

The only item that I can't get working is overriding the mailbox full restriction. I've used the code above but setting adminpermissions to 2 doesn't seem to work. In class_dm_pm.php, $overridequota = false seems to need to be set to "true" but I can't figure out how to do that.

If you have a few minutes, I'd really appreciate help in figuring out how to set the variables so that the user will receive the PM even if his mailbox is full and he receives PMs only from buddies and sender is not on the list and not board staff.

I'm pretty sure that can be achieved by setting $overridequota = true, just can't figure out how to do that.

In class_dm_pm.php, line 80:

PHP Code:

var $overridequota = false; 


while starting at line 370:

PHP Code:

        // run through recipients to check if we can insert the message
        foreach ($users AS $lowname => $user)
        {
            if (!($user['options'] & $this->registry->bf_misc_useroptions['receivepm']) AND !$this->overridequota)
            {
                // recipient has private messaging disabled
                $this->error('pmrecipturnedoff', $user['username']);
                return false;
            }
            else if (($user['options'] & $this->registry->bf_misc_useroptions['receivepmbuddies']) AND strpos(" $user[buddylist] ", " $fromuser[userid] ") === false AND !can_moderate() AND !$this->overridequota)
            {
                // recipient receives PMs only from buddies and sender is not on the list and not board staff
                $this->error('pmrecipturnedoff', $user['username']);
                return false;
            }
            else
            { 


But I don't see anyway to set $overridequota without hacking class_dm_pm.php.

Thx!

[Acido]

What's the trick to Automatically parse links in text ?

[mrpaint]

Originally Posted by Acido

What's the trick to Automatically parse links in text ?

Just use BBCode such as [url]
[code]text

My problem is: it isn't count my auto-PM into PM's quota. I found this in the previous page but it is too.... (no word to say!)

I have to do this to get private messages to update correctly in most cases. In a few specific cases, I don't have too. But, don't remember off the top my head which one.

$db->query_write("UPDATE vb_user SET pmunread=pmunread+1,pmtotal=pmtotal+1 WHERE userid=$userid");

That will do the trick everytime.

Any new ideas?

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by CyberRanger

The only item that I can't get working is overriding the mailbox full restriction. I've used the code above but setting adminpermissions to 2 doesn't seem to work. In class_dm_pm.php, $overridequota = false seems to need to be set to "true" but I can't figure out how to do that.

I had the same issue. What I found by searching through all the vB code is a couple of places where overridequota was referenced. All that is required to set this to send the PM even if the recipient's mailbox is full is to:

PHP Code:

$pmdm->overridequota = true; 


Here is how my code looks with this:

PHP Code:

$pmdm =& datamanager_init('PM', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY);         

$pmdm->set('fromuserid', $vbulletin->userinfo['userid']);
$pmdm->set('fromusername', $vbulletin->userinfo['username']);
$pmdm->set_info('receipt', false);
$pmdm->set_info('savecopy', false);
$pmdm->overridequota = true;                   // Force pm send even if recipient's mailbox is full
$pmdm->set('title', $title);
$pmdm->set('message', $message);
$pmdm->set('dateline', TIMENOW);
$pmdm->set('allowsmilie', true);            

$pmtousernames = implode(';', $pmto_users);
$pmdm->set_recipients($pmtousernames, $botpermissions);
$pmdm->save(); 


Hope this helps everyone that was running into similar problems.

Mark

When testing my auto send pm's code I kept seeing users that had pmpopup (popup-based pm notification) not being updated when I sent my auto pm.

If a user has pmpopup notification on this column should show as "1" in the user table. If they receive a new message and haven't read it yet it should show as "2" in the user table. The two denotes that there is an unread popup.

In the case where I was sending a message to multiple recipients I noticed that only the last of the recipients that also had pmpopup notification was having the pmpopup column updated to "2" while other's weren't.

In debuggint this problem I found that in the forums/includes/class_dm_pm.php file that line 557:

PHP Code:

$popupusers = array(); 


is reinitializing the array and therefore causes any previous userids that have pmpopup enabled to be lost (since its within a foreach loop processing all the users)

To resolve this I've commented the line out for now and also filed a bug report with vBulletin to get it resolved in a future release. I found this is 3.6.1 and also in 3.6.3.

Hope this helps some others that found problems in getting this mod working as expected.

Mark

[Blaine0002]

Would i need to change anything to stick this into a cron?
If so what would i change

If i dont need to change anything is it because im using 3.6.0 that its not working?