Private Messages

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I want to add a button on my sidebar that shows how many messages (i.e "5 New Messages") and be linked to go directly to the inbox of that person. Is there an addon for that or is there a simple solution. I already tried manipulating the code from the messages.php page to show just the inbox amount on my view.php page as a test but I kept getting errors. Or is there an add-on that immediately notifies the user just like the Concrete5 site does when you have a new PM. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 
apage50 replied on at Permalink Reply
I still dont have any luck with this and haven't found an add on that would show how many messages a user on my site has. Any Help would be greatly appreciated.
goutnet replied on at Permalink Reply
I can cook something for you if you want.

What you need is something like :

You have XX new Messages

with a link to the mailbox ?

that's it ?
apage50 replied on at Permalink Reply
Thanks for the reply goutnet, turns out we are not going to be using message for what we initially intended so we disabled messages all together. Thanks for offering to help though.
rc255 replied on at Permalink Reply
rc255
hi there goutnet, I know this is an old thread, but is there a simple way to do this?

I have a 'mini control' panel for logged in users and one of the links is directly to their message page. It would be great to display how many unread messages they have in there.

If you can point me in the right direction, it'd be splendid :)

Thanks

Rob