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Mod Name / Version: Who's Online PM Link 1.0

Description: This little hack adds a "Send a PM" button next to each user on the Who's Online Screen

Screenshot: See Below.

Working under: UBB.threads 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.1

Any pre-requisites: None

Author(s): JoshPet

Credits: Saw it on another BB system

Files Altered: online.php, online.tmpl

Database Altered: No

New Files: None

Screenshot:
[]http://www.pettitfamily.net/josh/OnlinePMScreen.gif[/]

Cool, works great!

Hi JoshPet, I installed this hack on 6.0.3 and it appears to work fine (i.e. the link appears in the WO page and links to a page where the username is entered properly) however when I try to post the message I get the error

"We have no record for the Username that you are trying to send this message to."

even though it is the correct username. Could this be because I have "allow special charachters in username in config options"? Although even when I have this set and try usernames which do not have spec chars it still does not work.

Any idea what could be causing this please?

BTW the url of the link in the case og 'guest' is:

http://mydomain/sendprivate.php?Cat=&User=guest

There was a previous version of this hack for 6.0.x, perhaps you would have better luck with it?

Does it do it just for usrenames with special characters.

I had this running for a month or two on a 6.0.3 site... never had a problem. I was probably the one who used it the most.

You might check what the link should look like.... if special characters are turned on. Look at their profiles and mouse over the "Send a private Message" link..... that link should be the same as the one used in Who's online. That's really all it does. But maybe it does something I'm not aware of when you have special characters turned on.

If you're having problems with spaces in user names, I have some instructions about how to let spaces work when you have the special characters disabled. One of the Daves posted them and I saved it.

Please ignore my point above:

"Hi JoshPet, I installed this hack on 6.0.3 and it appears to work fine (i.e. the link appears in the WO page and links to a page where the username is entered properly) however when I try to post the message I get the error..."

This was due to a silly mistake I made when editing the template.

Sorry and thanks for your help.

I´m working on forum specific templates.

In showflat and showthreaded I want to change the reply link to a PM link.

I think I know how to ad what I need in the tmpl´s, but how do I modify the code written for onlie.php to work in showflat.php and showthreaded.php?

So you want to replace the "Reply" button with a link that sends a PM to that user?

If so... I can look at this later this evening for you.

Yes, that´s what I want to do! Would be great!

Wanted to make sure.

Should be easy. Will look at this evening.

Thanks!

I´m rebuilding the forum completly thanks to all the help at the different dev. forums.

This could bee really cool at the end... if there is such a thing as an ending in this case!

Haven't tested this...

but this should change the "Reply" link to a link which will reply via Pm instead.

It *should* work for you. Please report back and let me know how you made out. If it's a thumbsup.... I'll post this as a separate mod.

This worked great!

But I need showflat.php and showthreaded.php to use this only on specified forums using separate tmpl´s. All the other forums should work as normal.

Like this:

I have duplicated showthreaded.tmpl, showflat.tmpl and postlist.tmpl.

The duplicates are renamed to showthreadedhard.tmpl, showflathard.tmpl and postlisthard.tmpl.

In these files I´ve made my changes and then uploaded the files to templates/default.

In postlist.php, showflat.php and showthreaded.php I´ve done this (based on this mod. ):

I´ve changed this in postlist.php:

code:

   include ("$thispath/templates/$tempstyle/postlist.tmpl"); 

---

to this

code:

if ($Board == "supertest") {
  include ("$thispath/templates/$tempstyle/postlisthard.tmpl");
}
else {
  include ("$thispath/templates/$tempstyle/postlist.tmpl"); 
}  


  

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I´ve done the same in showflat.php and showthreaded.php, but with links to their specific templates, of course.


Later on, when the supertest forum is complete and ready for launch, I will change this:

code:
 
if ($Board == "supertest") {

---

to this

code:
 
if ($Board == "supertest" or $Board == "specialforum1" or $Board == "specialforum2" or $Board == "specialforum3") { 

---

Supertest is my development forum, with admin only access. specialforum1, 2, 3, 4 etc is the not yet created forums that will use these modified features. There will be at least 15 of these special forums at the launch. All other forums will work as normal.

Is it possible to ad something like the change I´ve done in postlist.php, showlist.php and showthreaded.php, but instead of telling the x.php file what tmpl´s to use it states what link, PM or Reply, that should be used if the forum is a normal or modified one?

You could set up the replylnkstart and replylinkstop inside an if statement.....

Put the "if this board" .... then the coding I gave you for the reply link.... then "else" and the coding that was there. That should do the trick.

If you need specific help, I can write something up this evening.

Worked just great!

Wrote it like this:

code:
 if ($Board == "supertest") {
    	  
            $postrow[$i]['replylinkstart'] = "<a href="{$config['phpurl']}/sendprivate.php?Cat=$Cat&User=$EUsername">";
            $postrow[$i]['replylinkstop'] = "</a>";
          }
else {
         
            $postrow[$i]['replylinkstart'] = "<a href="{$config['phpurl']}/newreply.php?Cat=$Cat&Board=$Board&Number=$Number&page=$page&view=$view&what=showflat&sb=$sb&o=$o&fpart=$fpart&vc=1">";
            $postrow[$i]['replylinkstop'] = "</a>";
         }
 

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Now I have another problem, wich I think is far more complicated to work around.

I´m going to use these new forums as areas for personal ads. I want registered users to be able to advertise anonymously and recive answers to their UBBT account.

So what I need to do now is hide the posters username in every place it might show up. Commenting out (or mark as hidden) the recipent field in the PM window is not such a big deal, but a posters username shows up in so many different places: the link to the PM window, in various places showing new posts, in the posters sent messages box, etc etc.

Am I asking for to much here? Is this at all possible?

Wow.... that would be tough... and you can't fix the URL problem.

6.2 will be based on user number...which will fix the problem of the name showing in the URL.

I've got an idea.... I wonder if you can have user's post their replies.... but somehow rig those forums so that only the original poster could view the replies.

Almost like a private topic thing that we discussed here a while ago.

Might be pretty complicated though.

Hmm... sounds like it´s a better idea to find an existing ads system and integrate with UBBT?! Know ´bout one that might work?

I really would like to have it all in UBBT, but if it´s such a big operation....

Lemme
tinker this weekend.

Sure!

I took a quick look... and have this working on showflat.php..... I didn't look at showthreaded yet..... because there are some problems that I don't know how to work around.

While I kinda got it..... the whole thing is probably just out of my reach... maybe with enough hacking around it could be done. It would certainly take me alot more free time than I've got.

What this does.... (in showflat view) is only show the replies to the person who started the topic... everyone else only sees the main post:

The problems that I noticed off the top of my head:
- the replies would show up in a search
- the replies would show up when someone "showed all posts by this user"
- when the user makes a reply...they can "view their post" then see the whole thread

code:

##
## Open showflat.php
##

#
# Find this:
#

// -----------------------------------------
// Grab the main post number for this thread
	$Number = addslashes($Number);
   $query = "
      SELECT B_Main
      FROM   {$config['tbprefix']}Posts
      WHERE  B_Number = '$Number'
		AND    B_Board = '$Board'
   ";
   $sth = $dbh -> do_query($query);
   list ($current) = $dbh -> fetch_array($sth);
   $dbh -> finish_sth($sth);

#
# Change to:
#

// -----------------------------------------
// Grab the main post number for this thread
	$Number = addslashes($Number);
   $query = "
      SELECT B_Main, B_Username
      FROM   {$config['tbprefix']}Posts
      WHERE  B_Number = '$Number'
		AND    B_Board = '$Board'
   ";
   $sth = $dbh -> do_query($query);
   list ($current,$MainUsername) = $dbh -> fetch_array($sth);
   $dbh -> finish_sth($sth);


#
# Find this:
#

// -----------------------------------------------------------------
// We need to know how many posts of this thread to display per page
   if ($fpart <= 1) {
      $Totalgrab = $Totaldisplay;
   }
   else {
      $Startat = $Totaldisplay * ($fpart - 1);
      $Totalgrab = "$Startat, $Totaldisplay";
   }
   $Limit = "LIMIT $Totalgrab";
   if ($fpart == "all") {
      $Limit = "";
   }

   $threadnumber = $Number;


#
# Change to this:
#

// -----------------------------------------------------------------
// We need to know how many posts of this thread to display per page
   if ($user['U_Username'] == $MainUsername) {
	   if ($fpart <= 1) {
	      $Totalgrab = $Totaldisplay;
	   }
	   else {
	      $Startat = $Totaldisplay * ($fpart - 1);
	      $Totalgrab = "$Startat, $Totaldisplay";
	   }
	   $Limit = "LIMIT $Totalgrab";
	   if ($fpart == "all") {
	      $Limit = "";
	   }
   }
   else {
   	   $Limit = "LIMIT 1";
   }
   	   
   $threadnumber = $Number;

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Since you need this in a bunch of boards... you would need to add a lot of "if the board is xxxxxxx" then have it check if the $user['U_Username'] was equal to the B_Username of the main post.
There would be lots of scripts you'd have to work this into.

But in theory it's probably possible.

Oki... I give up!

Guess I´ll have to find an existing system and integrate the login with UBBT.

With 6.2 it will be user number based.

So then if you did the private message idea... you wouldn't see the username in the URL... just the number, which would still be anonymous.

You could easily remove the option to "keep a copy of this message" from the PM templates... which is another identity give away.

What's this for again? Like a personals response thing?

Oki... But how far away is 6.2?

Yes, it for personals. I want to give my registered user an anonymous personal advertisment area. "Man seeks Woman", Woman seeks Alien", "Alien seeks MiB".

No official word yet as to a time frame.

I know it's still in development and hasn't even entered beta yet... so I wouldn't wait on it.

Ok

I´ll start looking for an allternative system asap. Thank you for helping!

Got this working with 6.2 BR2...It's really easy (hey, I figured it out...musta been easy;) )

All you have to do is in this:

code:
 
//------------------------------------------------------
	// Set up the link to send the user a Private Message -  by JoshPet
      if ($config['private']) {
         $encoded = rawurlencode($Username);
         $privmessage = "<a href="{$config['phpurl']}/sendprivate.php?Cat=$Cat&User=$encoded"><img src="{$config['images']}/sendprivate.gif" alt="{$ubbt_lang['PRIV_HEAD']}" border="0"></a>"; 
      }

 

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Change

code:
 $encoded = rawurlencode($Username);
 

---

to

code:
 $encoded = rawurlencode($Uid);
 

---

Works just fine for me now

This one gonna work on 6.2.2? Just trying to keep Josh busy

Yes, it'll work if you apply the change cstaber posted above.

Will this work with 6.4?

[]Gregori said:
Will this work with 6.4? [/]

Yes.

If I remember right, you need to change the following in the instructions.



change the encoded $Username to $EUsername and it'll work.