Private Messages

neoncube

Hi everyone! I had some time to work on this extension today and have released a version 1.4.0.

Bug fixes

Messages sometimes would show up twice. Thank you very much to Pathologic for fixing this via neoncube2/flarum-private-messages10 ! 🙂
On mobile, clicking the "Conversations" menu item should now open a new page, instead of showing a somewhat-broken overlay. I think this means that everything should now be working on mobile. If not, please let me know!
Read receipt indicators should now be shown next to messages, instead of overlapping with them.

Changes

The color of the text in messages is now @secondary-color instead of @control-bg, which I hope will show up better.

New features

It's now possible for users to receive an email notification when they receive a new message! 🙂

To get started, open your site's Administration page, go to Private Messages, and change the Allow users to receive email notifications when they receive a private message setting:

If you change this setting to "Members", then everyone in your forum will immediately start receiving email notifications when they receive a new private message. They can disable this by opening their account settings page and changing the Someone messages me setting:

If you notice any new issues, please let me know, and thanks! 🙂

neoncube

@Capybara This should fix the issues where the checkbox sometimes overlapped the message 🙂

In this release, I changed the color of the text for messages that you send. I'm a bit afraid that this may break some websites. If you install the new version, can you let me know if the colors still look okay?

(I'm afraid I haven't yet had a chance to add an option to change the color of the gray messages)

neoncube

nhok3296 Cool, thank you! 🙂 I've just added the Vietnamese translations, although they haven't been released yet.

By the way, I added a new piece of text in the latest version: message_read: Message has been read

neoncube

tolgaaaltas Do you know if there's a way to download the translations from https://weblate.rob006.net as .yml files, so that I can directly drop the translations into this extension?

neoncube

OneHarryPotter I registered an account at www.vfxskill.com and tried sending a message to you (王吹风) and to ChatGPT. In both cases, sending the message failed and I got an error, but the error text is blank, so it's difficult for me to see what's wrong :/

I can think of a couple of things to try:

Does anything show up in your error log, now?
If you don't see anything in your error log, can you open config.php and set debug to true, so that I can see error messages?

Thanks, and sorry for the late reply, again.

neoncube

erictfbat Ah, indeed, I'd forgotten to change that link! XD Thanks! 🙂 This is now fixed but hasn't yet been released.

Mirzaagha

How to change text color. Message text color.?

neoncube

Mirzaagha At the moment, you'd need to write some custom CSS. The extension doesn't yet have a setting for this.

FlinkenFlobbers

Hello! I love this extension! There is only one slightttt problem, however; the messages in the default flarum theme are unreadable, because the text is the same color as the background.

GN1

Hello! We've been using this extension and love it, however, we keep getting double of the same message. Is there a way to fix that?

I was also wondering if there was a way to enable realtime chat, and if not, any other extensions that do?

erictfbat

Hi! A couple of solutions to problems. I'll do a PR for the second one shortly, once I figure out how...

First, the colours of the message bubbles on screen. You can fix that in CSS, and the particular CSS I settled on is hopefully generic enough that it will work for anyone. In Administration > Appearance > Custom Styles > Edit Custom CSS, I put this:

.ConversationsList .chat .chat-history .my-message div.message-text {
background: var(--control-bg-light);
color: var(--text-color);
}

.ConversationsList .chat .chat-history .other-message div.message-text {
background: var(--light-content-control-bg);
color: var(--text-color);
}

That gives a suitably muted look to the messages with good contrast, and I believe it should apply in all cases regardless of colour scheme. Feedback is welcome!

Second, the message notifications contain HTML but are being sent as text. You need to change 'text' to 'html' in the NewPrivateMessageBlueprint::getEmailView() method. I see you had a comment ("// HTML?") there, so you were probably intending to do that and just didn't get around to it. The result is HTML email, which is good, though the actual formatting needs work because it's a bit messy. As I said, I'll try to do a pull request for that now.

gobbledegook

Seems like with the extension, basic styles need to be configured with CSS still. Compose message seems to be black text, have to change the text for the send/receive boxes as well.

erictfbat Second, the message notifications contain HTML but are being sent as text. You need to change 'text' to 'html' in the NewPrivateMessageBlueprint::getEmailView() method. I see you had a comment ("// HTML?") there, so you were probably intending to do that and just didn't get around to it. The result is HTML email, which is good, though the actual formatting needs work because it's a bit messy. As I said, I'll try to do a pull request for that now.

^^ The above is still happening - can confirm

neoncube

Hi everyone,

I've just released version 1.5.2 of this extension, which attempts to make it easy to choose custom colors for the extension!

By default, messages that you send now use the forum's primary background color and text color, and messages that you receive use a green background color with a black text color:

To change this, open your forum's administrator page, open the Private Messages panel, check the "Enable custom colors" checkbox, choose some custom colors, and click "Save Changes":

This is a breaking change for two reasons:

The default colors have changed.
The default CSS selectors have changed slightly, so if you're overriding the colors via CSS, you might need to rework your CSS selectors, although I hope not!

My apologies for introducing a breaking change. I try not to do this often, but in this case, I felt it was worth it.

Another big improvement is that emails are now HTML, so they look a lot better. Thank you to @erictfbat for this change! :D

Emails should now look something like this, although this can vary a lot between different email clients:

I've tested the email functionality with Outlook but haven't been able to test on Gmail, as I don't have a Gmail account. If someone upgrades and tests with Gmail, please let me know how the emails look!

I'd be grateful for any brave testers to update to the latest version and let me know how it goes 🙂

I'm also happy to add additional color customization options, if people want to be able to customize other parts of the extension.

gobbledegook

neoncube I will give it a test in the coming days. Thanks so much for the update!

MaBentrupQ

neoncube Great, thank you! I was already waiting for the changes. 🙂

I do have one comment/question though. The previous implementation of the email had used the default mail layout (at least the one of the FoF Pretty Mail extension). Would it be possible to continue to support this? Or did I just implement something incorrectly?

neoncube

Medelinor If you're still using this extension, the latest version should fix the issue that you found where emails had a bunch of HTML in them.

(Thanks again to @erictfbat for this 🙂 )

neoncube

On second thought, I've found a way to make this be less of a breaking change! 🙂

The new behaviour in 1.5.4 is:

If a user upgrades from 1.4.0 to 1.5.4, then the default colors will continue to be what they were in 1.4.0
If a user installs this extension for the first time, then the new default colors are used.

Not that the CSS selectors have still changed slightly, so if you're using custom CSS, you may need to slightly adjust your CSS selectors. If you need help, just let me know! 🙂

danman1234

Why is ot not possible on a profile page to click on a button that directly the private chat opens with that specific user???

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