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I thought I had read someone's suggestion about this some time ago but I can't seem to find it. So, I thought it would be good to bring this up again. Has anyone created a hack (6.41) that would put an icon with the others in the "Post Extras:" area, or elsewhere, that when clicked it would open the "sendprivate.php" window with the username already inserted in the "Username" field?

I used to have this on my forums, prior to a recent upgrade - I had it to the left of Edit, Reply, Quote etc.

From what I recall, it was a fairly simple upgrade - I will see if I can re-implement it this week, and document it - unless I am beaten to it

I think this is different to what Pilgrim was asking - afaik.

The hack i linked to above is exactly what is installed to my setup and it works great.

When reading a post, the user has the option of clicking on a "PM" button that is in the "Post Extras" group of that post. It takes them to the PM screen with the "Send To" and "Subject" portions pre-filled out - along with a link to the original post.

if that is not what Pilgrim is looking for, please help us with further details so that we can help him further

Thanks - probably does do the trick then.

Thanks for the link and hack!

I just added it but I'm getting the following error when I click on the new icon:

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SQL ERROR: Mon, Feb 21 2005 20:19:07 -0600 Unable to do_query: SELECT B_Subject, B_Username, B_Board, B_Approved, Bo_Title, U_Language FROM w3t_Posts, w3t_Boards, w3t_Users WHERE w3t_Posts.B_Board = w3t_Boards.Bo_Keyword AND w3t_Posts.B_PosterId = w3t_Users.U_Number AND B_Number = '48663'
Unknown column 'B_Username' in 'field list'
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/www/the-highway/forum/mysql.inc.php on line 133
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I also get this error in the "We Cannot Proceed" table: You can't reply to a post that doesn't exist.

Any idea what went wrong and/or where to look?

Thanks!

This hack was created for version 6.1 and isn't compatible with newer versions. The code needs to be altered a bit so that user ids are used instead of the username.

Thanks... I just assumed that because I specified my version as 6.41 that the hack was compatible, even though it did say it was written for 6.1. I figured it had been updated but the author simply forgot to add what version(s) it was compatible with...! []http://www.the-highway.com/Smileys/iamwithstupid.gif[/]