No Thanks Just an idea...

I've got no idea if this is possible, but could the links you get in the User CP when you get a new VM go straight into the convo, in stead of going to your profile? It's a really small, unimportant thing, but for some reason it annoys me a lot xDx

 

Well, as I see this idea, that would take the stress out of going into the Profile of yours, click the "View Conversation" link, and do that. But what you're asking is that you want to make it to where the conversation is made automatically, instead of being sent to your Profile. I believe that it is a good idea indeed. It's somewhat like that to a PM message as well. I would approve of such a thing myself, but that's up to the higher-ups above me, to choose whether to go with such a thing as this or not. It isn't so much a problem as doing it, it's the construction of such a thing.

There will be a lot of flaws to it though, flaws that can take you to some other conversation that isn't yours really. So, it wouldn't take long for such a thing to go wrong.

 

Personally I think its a great idea as its quicker, more efficient and will be easier for everyone instead of just going through the longer process like looking through your profile.

I guess it's down to the staff though if they want to approve or disapprove of the idea.

 

*Bumps super old thread*

Can this be done somehow? It actually sounds really useful and efficient. Would like some Administrator input on this.

 

I played around with the template for... like an hour but didn't have much luck. ._. Couldn't find a way for it to fetch the User IDs, they kept coming up as 'array'. I'll keep looking for a way but I make no promises.

 

It sounds natural that they would be in an array. Is there any documentation on how it's sorted? If it's by date joined (which I'd assume) it should be member number one is a[0], member number two is a[1], etc.

 

That's it, yeah (though I don't believe there is a user #0, it starts with 1). I'm just going to try asking on the vB resource site, someone that knows how vB works would likely have an easier time with it all.

 

This idea has my support, too.

It also looks like it's already being looked into.

 

As far as I know ALL arrays start at 0, as in member number one would be stored in element 0. So if the array is called "Member" you should be able to call Member[0] to get the ID of the first member, etc.
So you should be able to make a variable link like http://www.kh-vids.net/converse.php?u=Member[memberx]&u2=Member[membery]

(Just guessing from my knowledge of Java and C++, I have no idea how vB works)

 

Just checked and DS is member no.1, so I guess vB is an exception? haha.

But yeah, that's pretty much what I was doing. The problem is getting it to pull the user ID of the person who left the message, and (surprisingly) you. (not as in Slaughtermatic specifically, just as in whoever's UCP it is)

 

You seem to not be understanding me >.<
I know DS is member 1, but in an array of members he should still be stored in element zero.
As for pulling the User ID of who left the message...well there's a link to their profile in the user cp when you get a message from them, so you could probably parse it from that? For yourself, you'll have to check the documentation of vB. There should be a method/function like self.getUserId(), but you'd have to look at the documentation/API to see exactly what it's called.

 

Yeah, that's why I was just going to look/ask on the resource site, haha.

 

HEY GUESS WHAT?
THE ADMINS CAN'T ADD THIS FEATURE?
WELL I CAN, BITCHES.

Temporary solution until someone actually adds this to the site:
Create a new bookmark, name it whatever you want, in the URL field, paste the raw past data from this link:

http://pastebin.com/wiKpKMVM

When you're in your User CP and you have a new VM, click the bookmark, it should take you straight to your convo.
Someone let me know if this works. I tested it and it seems to be working fine for me. Let me know.

 

It didn't work for me. Nothing at all happened.

 

Damn. Well I'll have to try and fix it later tonight.

Wait.
Try deleting that last ) before the the last ; and try again

 

Still didn't work, unless I'm doing it wrong.
I put exactly what you said in the url field of the bookmark (both times), got a VM, clicked on Settings, and instead of clicking on the VM, I clicked on the bookmark...but nothing happened.

 

What browser are you using? Apparently getElementByClassName() may not be supported on some... I did it on firefox.

Anyway someone send me a vm so I can try to fix it when I get home.

EDIT-okay i think just found out what's wrong. Due to a formatting error in vbulletin, for some reason there's a space (or a %20) in the second "getElementByClassName" if you copy paste it from my post. After copy pasting it I had "getElementBy%20ClassName", it should be "getElementByClassName".

Copy paste it from the original post again and remove that %20 and see if it works

EDIT AGAIN- okay I just edited the post with a link to PasteBin that shouldn't give you the space problem if you copypaste from there. Someone test please!

 

OMG, THIS WORKED.
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Yay! C:

Now, KHV must officially endorse this!
/feelslikeahaxor

(But seriously if you could somehow replace the link on the CP to the person's profile with this link, that'd be nice)

If anyone's wondering how I made this, I used Chrome's "inspect element" feature to find the names (Well classes actually, they don't have names, which gave me a lot of gripe) of the links to your profile and your VMers profile. And I had enough knowledge of Javascript to write that little code. How I posted it is probably unreadable, but I wanted to make it as small as possible. Here's the bigger, readable version:

Code:

var x = (document.getElementsByClassName('username understate commalist')[0].href);
var y = x.slice(34,39);
x = document.getElementsByClassName('welcomelink')[0].href;
var z = x.slice(36,39);
window.location = ('kh-vids.net/converse.php?u='+y+'&u2='+z);

Explanation:

Okay, so document.getElementsByClassName('username understate commalist') returns an array of all elements on the page with the Class name "username understate commalist". I found that the link to the VMers profile has that class name, so that's why used it. Even though there's only one element on the page with this name, it still returns an array. What I want is the first element in the array, which is why I used [0]. The ".href" is at the end because the href is the URL of the user's profile. So after everything, the variable x contains the link to the user's profile

The .slice(34,39) cuts out every part of the link except for the user ID. Slicing the link to my profile from the 34th to the 39th character leaves only "36122", for example. Keep in mind that this means it won't work for anyone with an ID of more than 5 digits. For some reason it does still work if you have less than 5 digits though. I don't know why.
Then the rest of it should be pretty self explanatory.