Away message for users

Hi,

This is something that is common in IRC - /me is away

In BBs, a user is either online or offline (or invisible).

But, on my Bulletin Board, the folks created such a community that every time someone goes on a holiday or goes offline for a while, he/she posts a new thread to annouce they're 'away.

So, I wrote a hack allowing a user to change his/her status to "away", including a return date and an away reason which will show up in their profile.

Likewise, the online/offline icon in postbit and buddy list will change to an away icon (a very faded version of the 'offline' one).

Some demo captures:

The Edit Profile screen, when a user is NOT away:



The Edit Profile screen when a user IS away:



The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user IS away:



The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user is NOT away:



The postbit icon when a user is away:




How to install:

Download the attached zip file. Upload away.gif to your images dir (or create your own away.gif).

Upload install_awayuser.php to your admin dir and follow the instructions.

Cheers,

Bira

newest version by sho here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...606#post287606

[Bedhead]

That was it.
This is great!
Thank you for your quick responses.
I wish you all the best in the new year.

[bira]

you too babe, thanks

[Meta]

A small little problem on my site ...

this:

mail($bbuserinfo[email],$emailsubject,$emailmsg,"From: \"$bbtitle Mailer\" <$webmasteremail>");

... don't happen.

The sender gets the auto-response ... that works ... but the receiver don't get a notification about it.

Perhaps i missed something ... (but i created the template email_pmautoreply!)

I tried to change the options of my test-user. He gets an email, if he has turned on "notification about pm by mail" ... but only the normal "you got pm"-message. And if it's turned off ... nothing. No notification.

Any idea?

[bira]

Meta I don't think I understand you

[Meta]

Thats what i was afraid of.

Okay ... i'll try it again (i do my best with my little english ...)

If i understand you well, one of the actions should be to send an email to the person who is absent if somebody writes them a pm. That's what not happens on my board. If it shouldn't ... please forget the rest of my words from now on.

But if it should be so ... well ... no mail. Or in other words ... nobody gets the message from the email_pmautoreply ... i think.

But ... i know, the user "Test" can get email-notifications for pms. If he turns it on in his options ... he gets one telling him he has a new pm. But it's the normal message ... not the words from email_pmautoreply.

And if he turns it off in his options (and who will turn this especially on when he leaves a while ... i think almost everybody on my board has it disabled) he gets no mail. Nothing. Nada. Niente. Gar nichts.

So that is my small little and absolutely not important problem. If it won't work ... it don't work. Nevermind. Anyway ... if you have a smill little hint ...?

(And all the other functions are working properly. That's what i wanted to say.)

[bira]

Meta,

mail_pmautoreply is the same is mail_pmreceived. The only difference is that it switches the sener/receiver.

Let's say user A has selected to receive an e-mail when he gets a new PM.

User B also selected to receive a notificaion by mail on new pms.

User A sets himself 'away.

User B sends a pm to User A.

User A will receive an e-mail notification letting him know there's a new PM for him.

User B will receive 1) an auto-reply pm, and 2) an e-mail notification letting him know there's a new PM for him.

That's how it should work

Does it help?

[Meta]

I'm afraid ... yes.

And it works perfectly. Please excuse the ... hm ... disturbance.

[Bedhead]

Hello.
Now I have noticed that I can not change a coppa user.
Please help.

This is the error I get:



There seems to have been a slight problem with the My Site database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.1:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE user SET away=0,awaydate=,returndate='0000-00-00',awayreason='',birthday='0000-11-26'
,options='15',usergroupid='2',username='gmull875', email='gmullins875@hotmail.com',styleid='1',parent email='gmullins875@hotmail.com',coppauser=1,homepa ge='http://',icq='',aim='',yahoo='',signature='',adminemail=1 ,showemail=1,invisible=0,usertitle='Junior Member',customtitle=0,joindate=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('200 1-12-09 21:21:43'),cookieuser=1,nosessionhash=1,daysprune= '-1',lastvisit=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2001-12-10 17:58:47'),lastactivity=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2001-12-10 17:58:47'),lastpost=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('1969-12-31 17:00:00'),posts='0',timezoneoffset='-3',emailnotification=1,receivepm='1',emailonpm='1' ,ipaddress='206.153.0.195',pmpopup=IF(pmpopup=2 AND 1=1,pmpopup,'1') WHERE userid=2164
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'returndate='0000-00-00',awayreason='',birthday='0000-11-26'
,options='15',userg' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Tuesday 11th of December 2001 08:27:12 AM
Script: http://www.mysite.com/forum
Referer: http://www.mysite.com/forum/admin/us...it&userid=2164

[bira]

A coppa user?

[bira]

hrmm...

try changing

awaydate=$awaydate

to

awaydate='$awaydate'