Hello,
i try to do your system in my site, i change the $_SESSION in al the files,
in inbox.php it's work great ! i can see the messages, in new_message.php work too, i can send a message.
i have just a 2 problmes please help me,
in read_message.php
i cant see the what people wrote, i cant see who sending the message!
in PHPMYADMIN, it's OK
i see the fields good !
from_user
to_user
message_content
and all...
but in the site i cant see anything in read_message.php ... please Help me.

another tiny problem, when i didnt open a message it's write "New" near to the Title
and when i open the message and go back to inbox, it's still write New near to title,
it's not update the mysql...

please help me with this to problems !

thanks !

I have the exact same problem! And I believe the problem is this line $messageid = $_GET['message']; as it isn't getting the id. so change it to $messageid = $_GET['messageid'];

This post has been edited by sam_benne: Nov 3 2008, 03:11 PM

it does'nt work
i dont know what to do !
help please !

Hey, i like your AJAX. I can create ligin and PM script but i dunno about combining with ajax.
Thank you.

hey guys,

sorry to open up an old thread, but just wondered if anyone could help me get this working?

inbox.php shows message title and (new) and if i click one through to

read_message.php?messageid=28 I just get

TITLE:

FROM:

MESSAGE:

[back to inbox]

I've checked phpmyadmin, and the from_user is empty as well as the date (i added this field manually because it wasn't in the .sql file.

Any help would be appreciated I'm new to mysql.

Thanks guys

Where is this .sql file coming from? Did you get it from the feelay starter topic text ?

Hai,
Thanks for the tutorial. It's very helpful. But there is one thing that I would like to know. How to display that you got a new message on page? I know it is something related with the "message_read" variable of that table but you didn't mention how it works..

Maybe use isset?
How To Make A Private Message System.

hey Feelay,

I was just wondering... I'm pretty new with this MySQL and PHP stuff, but wouldit be possible for the read_message.Php to have code that checks if isset($message) and then echoes the message and message information, like who sent it and when, if that variable is set (and that would be based on the checking whether the user logged in is the same as the to_user and if the session is valid). Else, it could echo an error saying something like, "You are not allowed to view this message because: 1. You are not logged in, or 2. You are trying to view someone else's message!"

This is just a thought. I'm not sure it would work in practice, so let me know if they can use this successfully! Thanks

-reply by newPHP-er

 

in read_message.php

edit:
$messageid = $_GET['messageid'];
$message = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM messages WHERE message_id = '$messageid' AND to_user = '$userfinal'");
$message=mysql_fetch_assoc($message);

and at the end of the file edit

$q="UPDATE messages SET message_read='1' WHERE message_id = '$messageid' AND to_user = '$userfinal'";
mysql_query($q);

?>
(this is to check if the message was read)

this system must be edited right to work well

This post has been edited by pippo: Jul 24 2009, 06:14 AM

i get this error
How To Make A Private Message System.

I get this error

Could not send the message:
Unknown column 'message_date' in 'field list'

-reply by jacob