UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V5.php Modifications Download PM to disk

This hack allows you to download the pm that you recieved to your disk to read later or print. the origional hack was for vbulletin by bira and that post can be seen at http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=100911
i modded it to work with w3t. you can see it in action at my forum http://www.extremeforums.org PM yourself and you will see a button that says download this post to disk click on it and it asks where you want to save the file to on your HD.

files moded: viewmessage.php and mess_handler.php

open up viewmessage.php and find the line that says:

echo "        ";

change it so it looks like this:

echo "        ";

done with viewmessage.php now open up mess_handler.php just above:

// ####################################################################
// reply_mess function - Reply to this message

add:

// --------------------------------
// END OF THE DELETE_MESS FUNCTION


// ####################################################################
// save_mess function - Save PM ot Disk
// ####################################################################
function save_mess($Username="",$Password="",$Number="",$Subject="",$Sendto="") {
global $dbh, $config, $theme, $lang;
$html = new html;
$Username_q = addslashes($Username);
      $query = "
         SELECT M_Message,M_Sent
         FROM   w3t_Messages
         WHERE  M_Number   = $Number
         AND    M_Username = '$Username_q'
      ";
      $sth = $dbh -> do_query($query);
      list($Message,$When) = $dbh -> fetch_array($sth);

$Message = ereg_replace(""",""",$Message);
$wordwrap = wordwrap($Message,75,"\r\n");
$html = new html;
$time = $html -> convert_time($When,$user[U_TimeOffset]);
$Subject = ereg_replace(""",""",$Subject);

header("Content-disposition: filename=messages.txt");
header("Content-type: application/octetstream");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
print("Date/Time Sent: $time\r\n");
print("From: $Sendto\r\n");
print("Subject: $Subject\r\n\r\n");
print("$wordwrap\r\n");
print("==========================================================================\r\n\r\n\r\n");
// echo "$Message and the subject of $Subject from $Sendto";
$dbh -> finish_sth($sth);
}

almost forgot and then find:

$user = $userob -> authenticate("$Username","$Password","U_Username, U_Password,U_Groups,U_EReplies,U_TextCols,U_TextRows,U_Preview");

and change it so it looks like this:

$user = $userob -> authenticate("$Username","$Password","U_Username, U_Password,U_Groups,U_EReplies,U_TextCols,U_TextRows,U_Preview,U_TimeOffset");

it works damn good..an example can be seen at my forums, you have to login or register or whatever...

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Edited by poil on 05/03/01 11:33 AM.

Here's an idea...

Have an option to save it in the email format (.eml), which is just a file with email headers, 2 line breaks, and then the msg.

Shouldn't be hard to fake the email headers.

yes you could do that for sure, i definitely want it to work on every platform.

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Howdy Poil.

What was the purpose of this? There's probably one, I just can't see it. []/testimages/icons/laugh.gif[/]

In reply to:

---

open up viewmessage.php and find the line that says:

echo " ";



change it so it looks like this:

echo " ";

---

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i don't know why but when i looked at the preview everything was a-okey, but i guess not, i must have been sleepy again. life has been to hard this past month. not thinking properly at all....i uploaded the readme for it

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I've had days like that.

cool, I'll take a look.



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Where's the block of code telling to look for the save_mess function?

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just above :

 // #################################################################### // reply_mess function - Reply to this message 

in mess_handler.php add

 // #################################################################### // save_mess function - Save PM ot Disk // #################################################################### function save_mess($Username="",$Password="",$Number="",$Subject="",$Sendto="") { global $dbh, $config, $theme, $lang; $html = new html; $Username_q = addslashes($Username); $query = " SELECT M_Message,M_Sent FROM w3t_Messages WHERE  M_Number   = $Number AND    M_Username = '$Username_q' "; $sth = $dbh -> do_query($query); list($Message,$When) = $dbh -> fetch_array($sth);  $Message = ereg_replace(""",""",$Message); $wordwrap = mwordwrap($Message,75,"\r\n"); $html = new html; $time = $html -> convert_time($When,$user[U_TimeOffset]); $Subject = ereg_replace(""",""",$Subject); $Subject = ereg_replace(""",""",$Subject);  header("Content-disposition: filename=messages.txt"); header("Content-type: application/octetstream"); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); print("Date/Time Sent: $time\r\n"); print("From: $Sendto\r\n"); print("Subject: $Subject\r\n\r\n"); print("$wordwrap\r\n"); print("==========================================================================\r\n\r\n\r\n"); // echo "$Message and the subject of $Subject from $Sendto"; $dbh ->finish_sth($sth); } 

so it will look like this"

 // #################################################################### // save_mess function - Save PM ot Disk // #################################################################### function save_mess($Username="",$Password="",$Number="",$Subject="",$Sendto="") { global $dbh, $config, $theme, $lang; $html = new html; $Username_q = addslashes($Username); $query = " SELECT M_Message,M_Sent FROM w3t_Messages WHERE  M_Number   = $Number AND    M_Username = '$Username_q' "; $sth = $dbh -> do_query($query); list($Message,$When) = $dbh -> fetch_array($sth);  $Message = ereg_replace(""",""",$Message); $wordwrap = mwordwrap($Message,75,"\r\n"); $html = new html; $time = $html -> convert_time($When,$user[U_TimeOffset]); $Subject = ereg_replace(""",""",$Subject); $Subject = ereg_replace(""",""",$Subject);  header("Content-disposition: filename=messages.txt"); header("Content-type: application/octetstream"); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); print("Date/Time Sent: $time\r\n"); print("From: $Sendto\r\n"); print("Subject: $Subject\r\n\r\n"); print("$wordwrap\r\n"); print("==========================================================================\r\n\r\n\r\n"); // echo "$Message and the subject of $Subject from $Sendto"; $dbh ->finish_sth($sth); }  // #################################################################### // reply_mess function - Reply to this message   

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Sure you didn't skip a step? You have the button and the function, but I don't see the code that actually calls the function. This is the button:

< input type=submit name = option value = "Save This PM to Disk" class="buttons" >

Because the form = < form method=POST action = "$config[phpurl]/mess_handler.php" >

and because there are values, they should be passed to the mess_handler.php file. The mess_handler file loads, but nothing in there, that I see anyway, is telling the code to go to save_mess at all. Like I would be expecting a couple of lines like the following:

$html = new html;
$html -> save_mess("info about the message like the message number in here");

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if a step was skipped. I can definitely see that it's a cool hack, just can't make it work on mine.

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bleh bleh bleh, as you can see, i am no good at writing instructions on how to do anything..... i am just horrible! in mess_handler.php fin dthe line that says:

// --------------------------------------------------------
// If they selected reply to this message, execute that sub
   if($option == "$lang[REPLY_MESS]"){
      reply_mess($Username,$Password,$Number,$Subject,$Sendto,$TextCols,$TextRows,$Pselected,$user);
      exit();
   }

add this below it:

// --------------------------------------------------------
// If they selected save this message, execute that sub
   if($option == "Save This PM to Disk"){
      save_mess($Username,$Password,$Number,$Subject,$Sendto);
      exit();
   }

so it looks like this:

// --------------------------------------------------------
// If they selected reply to this message, execute that sub
   if($option == "$lang[REPLY_MESS]"){
      reply_mess($Username,$Password,$Number,$Subject,$Sendto,$TextCols,$TextRows,$Pselected,$user);
      exit();
   }

// --------------------------------------------------------
// If they selected save this message, execute that sub
   if($option == "Save This PM to Disk"){
      save_mess($Username,$Password,$Number,$Subject,$Sendto);
      exit();
   }

i am damn sure that is it, ahhh!!!! if you change the wording in viewmessage, make sure it the same in messhandler like above.

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