Author: twosheds_
Modification Description: Moderate the private messages sent by users on a phpBB3 bulletin board. Administrators can view the private message database and delete private messages using this Administration Control Panel plugin.
Modification Version: 1.5.4
Features:
- View private messages created by the users of your bulletin board
- View all of the private messages sent by a specific user
- View all of the private message received by a specific user
- View the conversation between two specific users
- Search for private messages that contain a specific text string
- Delete private messages
Instructions for installing or updating this MOD in your phpBB3 bulletin board can be found in Sourceforge.
Change History:
- v1.5.4 (2010-03-21)
- Added the "Can moderate private messages" administrative permission in the "Misc" category to control which administrators are able to see this module in the ACP.
- v1.5.3 (2010-03-11)
- The phpBB team never reviewed version 1.5.2. Somehow, for some unexplained reason, it disappeared from their queue. So today I have posted 1.5.3 to the queue for review.
- I have moved the development for this MOD to Sourceforge: see https://sourceforge.net/projects/privmsgsmod/ for the latest release of this MOD.
- I have updated the MOD so that it now knows how to handle group names in the "To:" address field.
- v1.5.2 (2010-02-28)
- If a message has been deleted by all of its recipients and the only place it still exists is in the author's Sentbox, you will see the flag "(SentBox)" next to the author's name in the message list.
- Corrects several problems which prevented validation of this MOD by the phpBB team.
- v1.5.1 (2010-02-08)
- Corrects several problems which prevented validation of this MOD by the phpBB team.
- v1.5.0 (2010-01-31)
- Adds a text string search capability.
- v1.4.2 (2010-01-29)
- Change WPM message filtering to a generic string filter. A configuration setting now allows the user to specify a text string which, if found in the body of a message, will cause that message to be excluded from display in the message list.
- Escape slashes and HTML start tags in Javascript parameters for XHTML 1.0 compliance.
- Move Javascript function definition to an external include file for XHTML 1.0 compliance.
- Change showtext variable to use "y" and "n" instead of "0" and "1" to avoid problems with empty() function.
- Show a version/copyright string at the bottom of the page.
- v1.4.1 (2010-01-24)
- Attempt to fix multibyte input fields problem using guidance from Coding Guidelines documentation.
- v1.4.0 (2010-01-23)
- Added support for clicking on names in "to" column. Displays a list of of all messages sent to the selected user.
- Changed search filter at the bottom of the page so that it displays all of the messages back and forth between two users.
- v1.3.0 (2010-01-22)
- Added a configuration page for the module that allows the user to set preferences for the number of messages displayed per page, whether or not message text is displayed and whether or not messages from the WPM mod are included.
- Changed it so that, when you have elected not to display message text, clicking on the message subject line will pop up a window containing the message text.
- Changed the installation and update process to more fully utilize the functionality in AUTOMOD and UMIL. Hopefully this brings me more in line with the "standard" install/update process for phpBB3. I added the installation/update instructions to this post, above.
- v1.2.0 (2010-01-19)
- Fixes a syntax error in the index.xml (the AUTOMOD installation control file)
- Changed so that duplicate copies of messages in the PM database are no longer displayed.
- Change to better handle non-english names in the author name search field. A by-product of this change is that names are no longer case sensitive.
- v1.1.1 (2010-01-18)
- Correct SQL error
- v1.1.0 (2010-01-17)
- Interpret BBcode in messages
- Add option to toggle display of messages generated by WPM mod
- Correct bug that allowed display of messages that had been marked as deleted
Modification Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/privmsgsmod/
I am well aware (and you should be too) that there are potential legal and ethical issues associated with the monitoring of "private messages" on a bulletin board. I made my own judgment about those issues before I created this MOD for my board. You should make your own similar judgment before you use this MOD. I am not interested in having a discussion about all of that here. The topic has been beaten to death elsewhere. What I am interested in is a discussion about any technical issues associated with this MOD. I use it on my board and it works for me. I'm hoping that it will work as well for those of you who decide that you have a need for this sort of functionality.