By ajwwong on

Hi there! Hope everyone's doing good today! :-)

I'm trying to figure out how to add a link at the end of a node that lets a person send a private message to the owner of the node.

I'm kinda uncertain as to how to make this happen... but I'll just post my thoughts and (hopefully, any solutions! :-) here)

Basically, this is what I've done so far. I've taken the $output variable and added onto it like this:

$output .= t('<p>Please contact <a href="/%privatemsg/msgto/$user->uid">the node owner</a> to find out more.');

However,

(1) I know that I need to change the $user->uid to the node owner's (not the person logged in and looking at the node) and,

(2) I need to fix the formatting inside the link, 'cause right now, it's not linking correctly.

Any advice? Thanks everyone!

Albert
www.ithou.org

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Muslim guy commented

Thought that PRIVATEMESSAGE.module will do the thing?

With option to `send prvt msg to author (write to author)' link at the end of a node

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ajwwong commented

That's great! You just saved me another 5 hours of work... :-)

Thanks so much.

Peace,
Albert
www.ithou.org

[Edit: PS. With your help, Muslimin, I was able to find the part in privatemsg.module that I wanted and made the following hack addition to my $output string... in case anyone is interested in doing this themselves....

 $output .= t('<p>Please contact %send_msg_to to find out more.',array('%send_msg_to' => l(t('provider'), "privatemsg/msgto/$node->uid")));

This does the trick!]

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Muslim guy commented

The privatemsg.module did not work with our site:( Drupal 4.6.5

Maybe we got to have the updated module - has it been updated?

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tom-knox commented

Anyway i could put this code or a version of it into a block and put it on node pages?