[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]

Hello,

Great job! I can't wait to check out in more detail tomorrow.

Thanks.

I can't seem to figure out how to compose a message? Where are the links for that?

"Post Topic" and "Post Reply" - I'm still using my stock images.

Come to think of it, that's kinda a glitch - the templates point to the post new topic/reply image variables. I'll add an option to fix that next release

All I have to say is WOW!

From my brief use of the PM's, this appears to be much more stable than the UBB version of this. The instructions are very simple to follow. They are very well commented, clear, and concise. I had a few questions, but after downloading the script and looking through the files, they were all answered.

Great hack, and thanks for making this for us!

Thanks Ed! We will be putting this in tommorrow, great job!

Hi Ed,

I am really excited about this hack - thank you!

However, I can't seem to be able to make it work. I did *everything* like you wrote, and tried to send a new message to another user.

I got this message:

There seems to have been a slight problem with the 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

And in the e-mail to the Technical Staff (moi ) it says:

Database error in vBulletin: Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO privatercvd (msgid, toid, fromid, title, text, datetime, signature, iconid) VALUES (NULL, '3880', '1199', 'test', 'testing this', NOW(), 0, )
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ')' at line 1
mysql error number: 1064
Date: Wednesday 14th of June 2000 02:08:11 AM
Script: /bb/private.php
Referer: http://www.atlasf1.com/bb/private.php?action=newmessage&password=xxxxxxxxx&reply=false

I tried several times, and I always get this error. Any idea?

Thanks,

Bira

[Edited by bira on 06-14-2000 at 05:17 AM]

Ed I gotta warn you, I think your hack is slightly incompatible with vB 1.1.2 -- your setup instructions show lines in global.php that have vastly changed since, and cannot be accurately found. I pretty much guessed where you meant us to put what, but like I said in the previous post - I cannot post messages at all; keep getting the error above, which I have a hunch is related.

I'm removed $pminfo from my forumhome for the time being, and I anxiously await your fix

Hmm. I've installed it on v1.1.2 and it seems to be working fine.

Have you tried looking at the database to make sure all the tables have been setup correctly etc?

A few things to note. The messaging system seems to default to my browsers default font rather than the font I like to use on my message boards.

Also smilies dont seem to work (DISASTER!) even though I have set them to allowed in the control panel.

Other than that good work!

Mark,

I'll have a look although it did say everythng was set up fine.

As for the font face -- this is because all of Ed's templates use <font></font> instead of <normalfont></normalfont> -- John changed the variable for the normal font in 1.1.2. You have to edit the following templates:

pmloggedin
pmloggedout
privatelogin
privatemsglist
privatemsgbit
privatemsgbitlist
sendprivmsg
showprivmsg

I *think* that's it