Private Messaging System

[bam2550]

You may remember me from a while back when i asked help about my Private Messaging System. Well its all good now, and i can effectively put in and take out the private message.

 

My question is now, how can i make it like Invisionfrees/any forum private messaging?

 

So far my inbox is like this:

 

[From] admin [subject] Test [Message] Hey.... Test.

 

And i would like it like

 

[subject] Test [From] Admin

 

And the word Test be incoded in a link to lead to a nice little page stating the From, Subject and Message. (Like a forum PM)

 

I have no clue how to do this... Thanks

 

 

[MattDunbar]

Make sure your PMs are linked to an ID, then use the ID as a GET Parameter and do 2 pages listing different info sets.  I need too see more of the code you're using to give a more detailed description of how this would be done.

[bam2550]

uhhmm here ill pastebin all the import things for you.

 

This is basically what it is (minus the control panel, minus the login screen (which i doubt is important))

 

PS... The includes are to help identify the $username sending and receiving...

 

PPS... It actually works

 

http://pastebin.com/m1b803a4

[MattDunbar]

You're going to need to add a unique ID for each message in the database.

[bam2550]

Yes, i was thinking about doing that. But how? and where?

[bam2550]

Hmm, im still having much trouble with this. I can figure out how to apply a set number to it (0 for each one, 1 for each one, 2 for each one, ect ect) but not a unique one.

[MattDunbar]

Hmm, perhaps you should look into following a tutorial to make this PM system.  A rewrite will likely be needed.

[BlueSkyIS]

there should be an id field on your message table that auto-increments when a record is added. after you insert a message, you can get the id of that new record using mysql_insert_id() (assuming you're using MySQL):

 

$sql = "INSERT INTO messages VALUES (NULL,'$message_text');
mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
$new_message_id = mysql_insert_id();

[bam2550]

1.) I have never seen a PMing system tutorial...

2.) I really do not want to redo this PM system... Through all this debugging and building from scratch (which took me a while, and i learned a lot) I dont want to stop now.

 

3.) Thanks BlueSky

[DeanWhitehouse]

here is a PM tutorial

http://www.egmods.com/Main/Tutorials/php/intermediate/pms/index.php

[MattDunbar]

1.) I have never seen a PMing system tutorial...

2.) I really do not want to redo this PM system... Through all this debugging and building from scratch (which took me a while, and i learned a lot) I dont want to stop now.

1. http://www.pixel2life.com/search/php_coding/Private%20Message/1/ That page lists 2 tutorials.

2. Thats fine, but maybe reading through a tutorial will help explain how the ID system would work.

[bam2550]

Hmm okay thanks a lot. Nice tutorials

[bam2550]

mysql_select_db("messaging", $con);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM private_messages WHERE sendto='$username'", $con);;

 

Is there anyway to sort it by the id? from highest number to lowest?

[Guest]

add ORDER BY id ASC (or DESC) to the end of the query.

[Trium918]

bump