To begin with, I'm not sure if it's something other people may find useful. It's useful for gaming forums, like the one I'm running, and by useful I mean really useful. In such places you often have a generally anonymous account used by an entire group of Game Masters, so that the players don't know who among the Game Masters is posting from said account. But then, as it's a group account, nobody's personal one, and used only when specific stuff is needed, checking the private messages there gets complicated and you tend to forget about it.
I have a simple workaround, which is the account having a unique e-mail set at its profile, and then the e-mail inbox on the server is sent to auto-forward the notifications about PMs to the real e-mails of the staff.
But, could it be possible to do an auto-forward? Is there some extension that does that? I've searched and found two cool things that do post regular posts from other contact forms!
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... act_admin/
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... tion_form/
but I'm absolutely in no position of skill to edit the extensions to do what I'm searching for: which is to auto-forward the PMs sent to a specific account to either:
- PMs of specific other users
- to a specific sub-forum (it can be into a new thread always, or into one thread set before that, it doesn't make a difference)
Speaking about it proceduraly, what I mean is:
1) check if a Private Message is sent to a user account of specified user_id (say user_id 25),
2) if so, then copy paste all the private message data into some array (? I think that's how it's called)
3) call the function that sends private messages again, this time forwarding all of it to users of specified IDs (say user_id 65, 107, and 1020)
OR
3) call the function that sends posts, put all the private message data in there like user and stuff, use some already predestined forum_id and topic_id and send post
I would gladly send PayPal money for a pack of beer at least, if somebody would help me with that
I know it's no real payment, but I'm just a small hobbyst and can't afford paying like you pay for industry coder jobs...