@dyohn: it's in the unofficial release referenced here -> http://lussumo.com/community/?CommentID=69187.

Note: there is an error on line 748 of default.php. You will need to change that line from:
header('location:'.GetUrl($this->Context->Configuration, 'extension.php', '', '', '', '', 'PostBackAction=PrivateMessages&View='.ForceIncomingString('ViewBack')));To:
header('location:'.GetUrl($Context->Configuration, 'extension.php', '', '', '', '', 'PostBackAction=PrivateMessages&View='.ForceIncomingString('ViewBack')));

This extension really, really, really needs to be updated. Jazzman, do you have time to look through these updates to the code? Barring that, should this be forked and uploaded as a competing Add-on?

If someone puts together a working update of this extension and posts it for the attention of the addon admins, I'm sure they wouldn't mind updating this extension ;)

dyohn, try changing the extension on that file form .php to .phps and it may be of use to others. Right now it's getting parsed by PHP which doesn't help much.

Where can I get PrivateMessages3 (which is working like a charm).

You could get the global preferences extension and use that i think.

this seem to fine fine apart from the fact no one can whipser mid thread anymore

can we have both the whisper system and the pm system
if we could
that would be soo awesome

helloes,

a periodic ajax refresh would be great and it would turn pm'ing into a realtime messenger feature (if enabled).
periodic, to save bandwith

i've found some periodic-ajax-refresh tutorial with copy&paste-ready code examples here.
i think this would be a great "interactive" feature for vanilla.

anyone ready to do this?

btw was this mentioned before? ..

to turn the ugly h1 link into a panel item (send message text link) just replace ...


$Panel->AddString('<h1><a href="'.GetUrl($Configuration, 'extension.php', '', '', '', '', 'PostBackAction=PrivateMessages&View=SendMessage').'">'.$Context->GetDefinition('SendPrivateMessage').'</a></h1>');

with


$Panel->AddListItem($Title, $Context->GetDefinition('SendPrivateMessage'), GetUrl($Configuration, 'extension.php', '', '', '', '', 'PostBackAction=PrivateMessages&View=SendMessage'));

in PrivateMessages/default.php

it is probably towards the top of the default.php for PrivateMessages

could livediscussions be altered so that it updates the private messages pages as well as the discussion listing and comments?

Has anyone found that this thread breaks the vanilla extension manager (It may have been another change I made to get notify to work).

Also one other thing, on our forum users cant delete their PM's how can users be alowed to delete PM's?

Thanks again

Hey guys, new to this all so please bear with me... After some struggles, I got PrivateMessage3 working on my forum. However, I just realized a minor issue. When a user hits "delete" on one of their messages in their inbox, they receive the following error:

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/juniore/public_html/forum/extensions/PrivateMessages/default.php on line 748

However, when the user goes back to the forum...voila! that message has been deleted. So it's doing it's job, but breaking as well. Can anyonr shed some light on a fix? Thanks in advance!

Nevermind... I see the fix right at the top of this page! Doh!

I have the latest version of Private Messages (1.1) and it works beautifully. The only thing that I would like to see is some sort of notification when you recieve a Private Message. Just something so that you don't have to check your inbox constantly (or for members who don't know that they should be checking their inbox). Other than that, it works quite nicely. I have never been a fan of the whisper system...

I have an inbox tab at the top of the screen, not a left panel display...

Contrary to the documentation, and the code, my Inbox tab is not showing unread messages either... Not sure why?

Seems this portion of the default.php code is what is trying to make this happen:


if (isset($Menu)) {
$PrivateMessages = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, 'PrivateMessages');
$TotalMessages = $PrivateMessages->GetDiscussionCount("Inbox");
$ReadMessages = $PrivateMessages->GetReadMessagesCount();
$UnreadMessages = $PrivateMessages->GetUnreadMessagesCount();
$NewMessages = ($TotalMessages - $ReadMessages) + $UnreadMessages;
$TabName = $Context->GetDefinition('PrivateMessagesTab');
$Inbox = $Context->GetDefinition('Inbox');
if ($NewMessages > '0') {
$TabName .= ' ('.$NewMessages.')';
$Inbox .= ' ('.$NewMessages.' '.$Context->Dictionary['NewMessage'].')';
}
$Menu->AddTab($TabName, 'privatemessages', GetUrl($Configuration, 'extension.php', '', '', '', '', 'PostBackAction=PrivateMessages'), '', $Configuration['TAB_POSITION_PRIVATE_MESSAGES']);

$Title = $Context->GetDefinition('PrivateMessages');
$Panel->AddList($Title, 100);
$Panel->AddListItem($Title, $Inbox, GetUrl($Configuration, 'extension.php', '', '', '', '', 'PostBackAction=PrivateMessages'));
$Panel->AddListItem($Title, $Context->GetDefinition('SentMail'), GetUrl($Configuration, 'extension.php', '', '', '', '', 'PostBackAction=PrivateMessages&View=SentMail'));
$Panel->AddListItem($Title, $Context->GetDefinition('SendPrivateMessage'), GetUrl($Configuration, 'extension.php', '', '', '', '', 'PostBackAction=PrivateMessages&View=SendMessage'));


Everything in check here? Any reason this wouldn't be working?

We have a few user on our forum that are getting email notifications when they send a PM..... Did ant one ever figure out the cause for this or a fix for it?

WOW this is a hell of a security flaw.... all users can, by changing the discussion ID, start at 1 and work your way up and read EVERY PM and post including the our "admin" category, even deleted posts.

How do we fix this!

fsicsluvr, you are wrong on the access being denied to the admin post's... they are totally viewable.

From what I have seen, "Private Messages" is the only PM system for vanilla. Or is there another?

Sure, whispers' but I am looking for a "normal" pm system.... PM's are heavily used @ our forum, and our people like a traditional PM system, ya know.

@circuit -- so then its a confict with another extension? Because its happening on my forum.

Any idea of what extensions could be causing the conflict?

Yes, I just checked it with my normal user account and the problem occured again (this problem was also pointed to me by my regular users).

At least it doesn't happen for guest/unauthenticated users.

EDIT: It gets more interesting... A thread that was deleted by accident (and I have been unable to undelete as much as I try through the front end) appears to be accessible only via the private message extension. Users have started to post in this hidden thread which mod and admins can't see unless they know the address...
Example:
/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=62&page=1 doesn't load (gives errors dealing with ajaxquote and category roles which I'm going to have to look into)
and
forums/extension.php?PostBackAction=PrivateMessages&DiscussionID=62 doesn't load the deleted thread
BUT
forums/extension.php?PostBackAction=PrivateMessages&DiscussionID=62&View=Message loads the deleted thread. This makes me think its something to do with the &View=Message bit. Actually it looks like you can load any DicussionID through this method on our server.

Also appears that this is the critical bit to let you view others private messages as well.

Not to detract too much from this security issue (agreed it is big, just that my forum is so tiny and personal it's not an issue)...

Do you guys also not have any "edit, delete or quote (ajax quote)" options in each pm's comment list as they appear in a normal discussion? I have a number of extensions that refuse to carry over to the PM extension, which I can learn to live with, but I'm surrised these basic controls are stripped from the comment lists... Ideas?