Mobile Theme - Send PM

matthewkris

Maybe I'm missing something but is there an easy way to send a user a PM from the mobile view. It looks like the only way is to click on your Inbox, click the thought bubble and then type in the username. Is seems that this functionality should be included in the user profile.

Kiwii

I think the mobile theme is also missing the 'activities' tab and I could not figure out where to set which theme to use.
Also, bump for interest.

sahotataran

check out the mobile theme

phreak

It is very interesting that i didn't find any other discussion regarding the usage of private messaging in the mobile template. Did anyone dig into this?

More than 55% of users of my forums use mobile devices (beeing almost 40 using smartphones) and the demand for private messaging from a mobile template is getting asked for.

I guess it not just done by mobilefriendly TRUE. Any help would be great.

vrijvlinder

@phreak
You can send PM but you need to activate the panel in the mobile theme. I just remodeled my Mobile theme , you can download it and see what I did and do that to your own .

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/mobile-theme

Just replace the tpl with mine to see what I did. It does not affect the style. Only the components.

phreak

@vrijvlinder: Thanx it worked how you described. Now i have another questions.

I do not want the whole Panel loaded on the specific sites, but i want specific panels loaded. Where is it possible to configure those but "just" for the mobile version.

Can anybody jump in and help me?

vrijvlinder

If you mean modules in the panel , then yes, just like the guest module you can pick which to show or not. It can be done by css or by adding $this->RemoveModule(name of module) and add it to the mobile themehooks .

phreak

I tried it that way, but this seems to be a decent workaround for a simple feature. Do you think there is a way to call a new conversation outside of the Javascript popup for the mobile version?

Thanx for your input @vrijvlinder.

vrijvlinder

I don't quite follow... if you want something not to pop just put in the antagonist js in the tpl or php master of the theme.

hgtonight

@phreak Add this to your mobile theme's theme hooks file.

public function ProfileController_Render_Before($Sender) {
  if ($Sender->Menu) {
    $Sender->Menu->AddLink('Options', sprintf(T('Send %s a Message'), $Sender->User->Name), '/messages/add/'.$Sender->User->Name, FALSE, array('class' => 'MessageLink'));
  }
}

phreak

Thanx hgtonight. It works great, i just understood quite a lot more about themehooks.

I know now 2 ways to integrate it:

1.) By just put a link into a themefile linking to "~/messages/add/" (no predefined user)
2.) By adding to like hgtonight suggested to the main menu above (user predefined)

I've edited the main menu very strong and both do not apply perfectly. The 1.) way can not pick up a username in the recipients. The 2nd version binds me only to the main menu. Does anyone have an idea how to call ~/messages/add/ with the member the user wants to write from any link possible. Or is there a way to create a link with user through the framework...

{messageToUser} or something like this? I want to move this link freely.

vrijvlinder

Does anyone have an idea how to call ~/messages/add/ with the member the user wants to write from any link possible

The plain link messages/add takes you to the messages form and the recipient list so you can put the name in yourself. I can't think of a way of being able to tell who you are sending to unless the link is in their profile and their user id is the recipient by virtue that the link is in their profile.

This may be achieved possibly by adding the message link to each user in the discussions somewhere associated with the avatar/author/user. The following link will be added to the menu . The point is the structure which should add the message link and add the id and username. I tested and it only adds the user name atm....However not sure if it adds my user name or someone else's ...as well.

In any event You can use css to move it anywhere you want from the menu. Or you can use the insert div plugin to add it to the comments.

$this->Menu->AddLink('NewMessage', T('NewMessage'), 'messages/add/{Username}',array('Garden.SignIn.Allow'), array('class' => 'Messagelink'));

you can also make the link popup so they don't have to open a new page

<script type="text/javascript"> 

$(document).ready(function() {
$('#Menu li.Messagelink a').popup();

</script>

vrijvlinder

You could try something like this to add that link in the meta for the discussions and comments, this would go in the theme hooks file.

public function DiscussionController_BeforeCommentMeta_Handler($Sender) {
        $Author = $Sender->EventArguments['Author'];
        if ($Author->Photo) {
            $MessageLink = "messages/add";
            echo ('$MessageLink',T('Message'), array('class' => 'MessageLink'));
        }
    }