New Pm notification?

[miaow]

I looked around and couldn't find what I was looking for. I managed to get a 'you have __ new messages' under the member section of the info centre, and I was wondering if it was possible to have it link to the 'conversations' portion of the site? Any help would be appreciated.

dxm.freeforums.net/

[pawl]

Have a look at the variables list for current_user > messages.
For example $[current_user.messages.inbox] will display the number of messages in your inbox, while $[current_user.messages.new] will show the total of new messages.
Have a play with that, and come back if you're still struggling. =]

[miaow]

Thanks for replying Paul. What I'm after is a way so that the user can click on $[current_user.messages.new] so that it will take them directly to their conversations inbox.

I was playing around and might prefer to have it under my banner actually. This might be a matter for header/footer codes but I thought I'd ask while I was here. Currently I have:

<div class="lnks"><a href="definitelyxmaybe.proboards.com/conversations">HEY [@username], YOU HAVE ___ NEW MESSAGES. CLICK HERE FOR INBOX.</a></div>

and wanted to know if there was a way to make it so the users name would come up, as well as the number of messages they have.

[Stinky666]

Mar 10, 2013 12:12:22 GMT -8 miaow said:

Thanks for replying Paul. What I'm after is a way so that the user can click on $[current_user.messages.new] so that it will take them directly to their conversations inbox.

I was playing around and might prefer to have it under my banner actually. This might be a matter for header/footer codes but I thought I'd ask while I was here. Currently I have:

<div class="lnks"><a href="definitelyxmaybe.proboards.com/conversations">HEY [@username], YOU HAVE ___ NEW MESSAGES. CLICK HERE FOR INBOX.</a></div>

and wanted to know if there was a way to make it so the users name would come up, as well as the number of messages they have.

If it helps, I have it set as...

NAME (signout) - Inbox: XX | New: XX

Inbox is clickable, and XX for each depends how many they have total and new.


<p id="welcome">
                       {if $[current_user.is_member]}
                       $[current_user.name] (<a href="$[logout_link.href]">signout</a>)
                        -  <a href="/conversations/inbox"><b>Inbox:</b></a> <font color="#8fcf55">$[current_user.messages.inbox]</font> | New: <font color="#cf5558"><u>$[current_user.messages.new]</u></font>  
                       {else}
                       Welcome Guest to $[forum.name]. $[login_link.] or $[register_link.]
                       {/if}
                   </p>

Edit:
to note, this displays in the top right of the nav menu, where "login and logout" displays by default.

[miaow]

I tried playing around with that and I got generally what I was going for. Thanks Stinky! n__n

[blueshead]

Can someone explain this more? Thank you..  I'd like to do what stinky has showing..  

[blueshead]

Bump..