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Hey guys, hopefully your brilliant minds will be able to enlighten me with a solution to adding a reply link to my current message system and creating a reply page similiar to the compose page. I have yet to build a "reply.php" page so anything you can help me out with would be great. All I'm really needing is for the original sender's member name to echo into the "Send Message To:" field so that the user won't have to retype the sender's name in. Thank you in advance for any assistance you guys can provide. Here's the coding for my "compose.php" & "viewmsg.php" pages: viewmsg.php <?php session_start(); $user = $_SESSION['SESS_LOGIN']; include 'db.php'; //This checks to see if a user is logged in or not by seeing if the sessioned username varialble exists. //You could change this check to however you want to validate your members, this is just how I did it. if(!$user) { echo "<br><p>Please login to view your messages.</p><br>"; } else { //We need to grab the msg_id variable from the URL. $msg_id = $_REQUEST['msg_id']; //Get all of the information about the message with the id number sent through the URL $view_msg = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM messages WHERE id = '$msg_id'"); $msg = mysql_fetch_array($view_msg); $reciever = $msg['reciever']; $sender = $msg['sender']; $subject = $msg['subject']; $message = $msg['message']; //If the person who is supposed to recieve the message is the currently logged in user everything is good if($reciever == $user) { //The message was recieved, so lets update the message in the database so it wont show up in the sent page any more mysql_query("UPDATE messages SET recieved='1' WHERE id = '$msg_id'"); //Query the database to see how many messages the logged in user has, then do a little math //Find the percentage that your inbox is full (message count divided by 50) //50 messages maximum, you can change that $sql = mysql_query ("SELECT pm_count FROM members WHERE login='$user'"); $row = mysql_fetch_array ($sql); $pm_count = $row['pm_count']; //This is the math to figure out the percentage. //The message could divided by 50 then multiplied by 100 so we dont have a number less than 1 $percent = $pm_count/'50'; $percent = $percent * '100'; //Now we will display the little navigation thing, the fullness of the inbox, then display message information stuff, like who its from, the subject, and the body ?> <center> <b><p><a href="inbox.php">Inbox</a> | <a href="compose.php">Compose</a> | <a href="sent.php">Sentbox</a></b> <b><p><?php echo "$pm_count"." of 50 Total | "."$percent"."% full"; ?></p></b> </center> <br> <table width="80%"> <tr> <td width="120px"><p>From:</p></td> <td width=""><p><a href = "<?php echo "../profiles/$sender.php"; ?>"><?php echo $sender; ?></a></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="120px"><p>Subject:</p></td> <td width=""><p><?php echo $subject; ?></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="120px"><p>Message Body:</p></td> <td width=""><p><?php echo $message; ?></p></td> </tr> </table> </center> <?php } //Everything is not good, someone tried to look at somone else's private message else { ?> <p>Invalid message. Please log out and log back in.</p> <?php } } ?> compose.php <?php session_start(); $user = $_SESSION['SESS_LOGIN']; include 'db.php'; //This checks to see if a user is logged in or not by seeing if the sessioned username varialble exists. //You could change this check to however you want to validate your members, this is just how I did it. if(!$user) { echo "<br><p>Please login to compose a message.</p><br>"; } else { //Query the database to see how many messages the logged in user has, then do a little math //Find the percentage that your inbox is full (message count divided by 50) //50 messages maximum, you can change that $sql = mysql_query ("SELECT pm_count FROM members WHERE login='$user'"); $row = mysql_fetch_array ($sql); $pm_count = $row['pm_count']; //This is the math to figure out the percentage. //The message could divided by 50 then multiplied by 100 so we dont have a number less than 1 $percent = $pm_count/'50'; $percent = $percent * '100'; ?> <center> <b><p><a href="inbox.php">Inbox</a> | <a href="compose.php">Compose</a> | <a href="sent.php">Sentbox</a></b> <b><p><?php echo "$pm_count"." of 50 Total | "."$percent"."% full"; ?></p></b> </center> <br> <?php //So here we get the variable submitted through the form to this page $reciever = $_POST['username']; $subject = $_POST['subject']; $message = $_POST['message']; $error = '0'; //If they are all blank we jsut say to compose a message if(!$reciever AND !$subject AND !$message) { ?> <p><b>Please compose a message.</b></p> <br> <?php } //Since this form was partially filled out we need to return an error message else { if (!$reciever) { $error = 'You must enter a reciever to your message'; } if (!$subject) { $error = 'You must enter a subject'; } if (!$message) { $error = 'You must enter a message'; } //If the variable error is not set to zero, we have a problem and should show the error message if($error != '0') { echo "<p>$error</p><br>"; } //There are no errors so far which means the form is completely filled out else { //Are the trying to send a message to a real user or to something they just made up? $user_check = mysql_query("SELECT login FROM members WHERE login='$reciever'"); $user_check = mysql_num_rows($user_check); //The user is real and not made up if this is true if($user_check > '0') { //There might already be a sessioned time variable, if so we need to get it for the flood check $time = $_SESSION['time']; //If there is a time variable already, set it to the varialbe $old_time if($time > '0') { $old_time = $time; } //Here we get the minutes and seconds on the server time using the date function, and set that to the $time variable //Now we find the difference between this time ($time) and the time that the page was submitted ($old_time) $time = date('is'); $difference = $time - $old_time; $_SESSION['time'] = $time; //If the two times have a difference greater or equal to 15, which is 15 seconds, they can submit the message, this is for flood protection if($difference >= '15') { //Get their private message count $sql = mysql_query ("SELECT pm_count FROM members WHERE login='$reciever'"); $row = mysql_fetch_array ($sql); $pm_count = $row['pm_count']; //You cant have more than 50 private messages, if they try sending a message to a user with a full inbox return an error message if(pm_count == '50') { $error = 'The user you are trying to send a message to has 50 private messages, sorry but we cant send your message until that user deletes some of their messages.'; } else { //And now we stick the message in the database with all the correct information mysql_query("INSERT INTO messages (reciever, sender, subject, message) VALUES('$reciever', '$user', '$subject', '$message')") or die (mysql_error()); //Add 1 to the pm count, update the reciever with the new pm count $pm_count++; mysql_query("UPDATE members SET pm_count='$pm_count' WHERE login='$reciever'"); } //Let the user know everything went ok. echo "<p><b>You have successfully sent a private message!</b></p><br>"; } //Since they are trying to send messages faster than every 15 seconds, give them an error message else { $error = 'You must wait 15 seconds before sending another private message'; } } //If they mis spelled or, made up a username, then give an error message telling them its wrong. else { $error = 'That username does not exist, please try again. Remember to check your spelling.'; } } } //Since we may have set the error variable to something while trying to send the messae, we need another error check if($error != '0') { echo "<p>$error</p><br>"; } else { //Here's the form for the input ?> <form name="send" method="post" action="compose.php"> <table width="80%"> <tr> <td width="150px" align="left" valign="top"><p>Send Message To:</p></td> <td width="" align="left" valign="top"><input name="username" type="text" id="username" value="<?php echo "$reciever"; ?>"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150px" align="left" valign="top"><p>Message Subject:</p></td> <td width="" align="left" valign="top"><input name="subject" type="text" id="subject" value="<?php echo "$subject"; ?>"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150px" align="left" valign="top"><p>Message Body:</p></td> <td width="" align="left" valign="top"><textarea name="message" type="text" id="message" value="" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send Message"></td> </tr> </table> </center> </form> <?php } } ?>