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Messages to other backend users

ottogal — Jan 27, 2015, 03:53 AM

Is there no way to view the sent messages?

Re: Messages to other backend users

BobRay — Jan 30, 2015, 02:10 AM

Yes, I already have them sorted in DESC order.

I think adding this line between lines 8 and 9 would do it for the snippet above:

$query->sortby('date_sent', 'DESC');

You could also add that line below line 32 of the core\model\modx\processors\security\message\getlist.class.php file to have them sorted in the Manager.

Re: Messages to other backend users

ottogal — Jan 30, 2015, 01:40 AM

Since the messages in the grid are not sortable* (see http://forums.modx.com/thread/95945/package-manager-grid-columns-not-sortable), it would be helpful if at least they would be sorted by date_sent in DESC order by default.

* Perhaps this is fixed in 2.3.3-pl?

Re: Messages to other backend users

BobRay — Jan 30, 2015, 12:30 AM

I'm glad it's working for you.

BTW, I'm working on an extra to let users see and delete their messages in the front end (and possibly reply to them). It may be a while before it's released, though.

Re: Messages to other backend users

ottogal — Jan 28, 2015, 11:07 PM

Stupid me - I forgot the line

$messages = $modx->getCollection('modUserMessage');

Here's the complete snippet code:

$output = '';
$messages = $modx->getCollection('modUserMessage');
foreach ($messages as $message) {
    /** @var $message xPDOObject */
    $fields = $message->toArray ('', true);
    $query = $modx->newQuery('modUser', array(
        'id' => $fields['sender'],
    ));
    $query->select('username');
    $username = $modx->getValue($query->prepare());
    $fields['sender'] = $username;
    $fields['class'] = $fields['read']? 'read' : 'unread';
    $fields['read'] = $fields['read'] ? 'Yes' : 'No';
    $output .= $modx->getChunk('messageTpl', $fields);
};
return $output;

It works like a charm. Thanks Bob, I learnt something about xPDO!

Re: Messages to other backend users

ottogal — Jan 28, 2015, 10:48 PM

I tried it this way, but there was no output:

$output = '';
foreach ($messages as $message) {
    /** @var $message xPDOObject */
    $fields = $message->toArray ('', true);
    $query = $modx->newQuery('modUser', array(
        'id' => $fields['sender'],
    ));
    $query->select('username');
    $username = $modx->getValue($query->prepare());
    $fields['sender'] = $username;
    $fields['class'] = $fields['read']? 'read' : 'unread';
    $fields['read'] = $fields['read'] ? 'Yes' : 'No';
    $output .= $modx->getChunk('messageTpl', $fields);
};
return $output;

To test the query, I tried

$output = '';
foreach ($messages as $message) {
    /** @var $message xPDOObject */
    $fields = $message->toArray ('', true);
    $query = $modx->newQuery('modUser', array(
        'id' => $fields['sender'],
    ));
    $query->select('username');
    $username = $modx->getValue($query->prepare());
    $output .= $username . ' ';
};
return $output;

The output remains empty.

Re: Messages to other backend users

BobRay — Jan 28, 2015, 10:03 PM

Here's what I have for doing that in code:

foreach ($messages as $message) {
    /** @var $message xPDOObject */
    $fields = $message->toArray ('', true);
    $query = $modx->newQuery('modUser', array(
        'id' => $fields['sender'],
    ));
    $query->select('username');
    $username = $modx->getValue($query->prepare());
    $fields['sender'] = $username;
    $fields['class'] = $fields['read']? 'read' : 'unread';
    $fields['read'] = $fields['read'] ? 'Yes' : 'No';
    $inner .= $modx->getChunk($tpl, $fields);
}

Re: Messages to other backend users

ottogal — Jan 28, 2015, 05:30 AM

Thank you, Bob - very helpful.
I would like to have the author of the message in the output. Adding [[+sender]] to the messageTpl of course gives just his id.
How do I get his username? (Tried a few things, but to no avail.)

Re: Messages to other backend users

BobRay — Jan 27, 2015, 05:41 PM

If the message is addressed to you, you'll see it when you go to the 'Messages' section, but AFAIK, you can't see other people's messages unless you either log in as them or look in the DB.

This snippet would show them all:

$messages = $modx->getCollection('modUserMessage');
$output = '';
foreach ($messages as $message) {
    $fields = $message->toArray();
    $output .= $modx->getChunk('messageTpl', $fields);
}

return $output;

messageTpl chunk:

[[+id]] -- [[+subject]] -- [[+message]]