Private Messaging System - Urgent-

sys4dm1n

I am trying to integrate a private messaging system into my current login system.

all i need is a simple page where (from the admin CP) the admin can select out of all the users, send a PM with a subject. Then the users under the admin can only read and reply to the private message and delete. Each user (including administrators) would need to have their own inbox (and each admin would need compose and sent).

Does anyone have any idea onto how i would do something like this? This is urgent, so if anyone could let me know, that would be great. Also, i looked at zulumonkey for a tutorial..and it was crap 🙁.

MikeSnead

Firstly, you'll need a database table to hold the messages. The table needs to know who sent it, who's receiving it, what the subject is, what the message is, and any other features you'd like (like whether it has been read, replied, etc...).

Then you need scripts and forms to modify this table. The admin needs a form/script to add a new message to the table, the users need a script to pull messages sent to them from that table (and delete, etc..).

That is the basic idea of a basic message system... it should be enough to get you started in the coding.

sys4dm1n

i still have no idea...please, if anyone has any idea onto where to look for a tutorial, or could point me to a script to look at as a tutorial, that'd be great.

djdaz

i wrote a little private messagin system u cud look at if u wanted.

mite help a bit.

itunes66

you need to give the url

sys4dm1n

Originally posted by djdaz
i wrote a little private messagin system u cud look at if u wanted.

mite help a bit.

that would be awesome if you could post the source..is it commented by anychance so i could understand it?

thanks a lot 🙂

djdaz

ill comment the code, dont think i commentd it when i made it. When its done ill upload

sys4dm1n

Originally posted by djdaz
ill comment the code, dont think i commentd it when i made it. When its done ill upload

okay, thanks a lot

djdaz

OK here we go,

http://djdaz.dynip.com/tykesonline/pm/index.phps

http://djdaz.dynip.com/tykesonline/pm/read.phps

http://djdaz.dynip.com/tykesonline/pm/new.phps

Sorry if there confusing, made those back in me noob days, sorry for the delay too.

If you want any help, just email me or sommet.

sys4dm1n

hey, thanks a lot- i just got the source and am reading it now..ill let you know whats going on..thanks a lot- i couldnt find anything like this anywhere! 🙂

sys4dm1n

I've been playing around with the PM system you provided...but I am having trouble with some of the mysql.

For instance:

//then check that there are some private messages for this user
			if ( mysql_num_rows($result) > 0 )
			{  

				//If there is some PMS, lets print out the details into table rows like thus
				while ($dbdata = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
					//if the private message has not been read, lets highlight the table row to show this
					if( $dbdata['opened'] == "0" )
					{
						?>
						<tr>
							<td width="15" class="headercell"><input type="checkbox" name="<?php echo "del['".$number."']";?>" value="<?php echo $dbdata['mid'];?>"></td>
							<td width="100" class="headercell"><b><?php echo $dbdata['userfrom'];?></b></td>
							<td class="headercell"><b><a href="read.php?mid=<?php echo $dbdata['mid'];?>"><?php echo $dbdata['subject'];?></a></b></td>
							<td width="150" class="headercell"><b><?php echo $dbdata['date'];?></b></td>
						</tr>
						<?php
					}
					else

where do you pull that information from?

Thanks

sys4dm1n

Nevermind, i found it in new.php

but now..how would i go about setting the database up (like through phpadmin or a .sql file)?