Can't Change Privatemsg path in Admin settings anymore [#1217280]

I would like to allow users to access their private messages from their user account pages, so I'd like the URL to be, universally, user/%user/messages.

It looks like, in D6, there was an admin setting to allow the choosing of an arbitrary path (instead of /messages) at which the user could view his messages. I was wondering if this setting will be reappearing.

From #959632: Setting Base URL path to anything else that "/messages" leads to Access denied on messages pages:

Note that you can change the default URL in the administration settings (it is also possible to move it below /user/uid) but that actually *moves* it, which means that /messages is no longer available.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#6	allow_user_messages-1217280-6.patch	1.41 KB	geerlingguy
#3	allow_user_messages-1217280-3.patch	1.33 KB	geerlingguy
#1	allow_user_messages-1217280-1.patch	490 bytes	geerlingguy

Comments

Comment #1

geerlingguy commented 19 July 2011 at 03:36

Status:

Active

» Needs review

Status	File	Size
new	allow_user_messages-1217280-1.patch	490 bytes

For a simple fix, see attached patch. For the needs of my site, simply allowing the user access to messages on his own page is good enough. However, for many sites, I would presume the ability to have the entire private messages interface accessible from the account page would be ideal.

This patch just lets the user see his own user/[uid]/messages page.

Comment #2

19 July 2011 at 04:12

Status:

Needs review

» Needs work

The last submitted patch, allow_user_messages-1217280-1.patch, failed testing.

Comment #3

geerlingguy commented 20 July 2011 at 02:49

Status:

Needs work

» Needs review

Status	File	Size
new	allow_user_messages-1217280-3.patch	1.33 KB

Umm, yeah... the patch above basically allows anyone to view anyone else's messages list. That's not good :-/

So, the attached patch only allows the current user to view his own messages. The logic in that user access function is pretty crazy, in some ways (kind of a mini permissions system for the privatemsg module), but I understand the reason for the complexity.

Anyways, I still just want to be able to let users get to their private messages right on their profile pages :)

Comment #4

20 July 2011 at 03:30

Status:

Needs review

» Needs work

The last submitted patch, allow_user_messages-1217280-3.patch, failed testing.

Comment #5

mefisto75 commented 26 August 2011 at 14:25

sub

Comment #6

geerlingguy commented 26 October 2012 at 16:48

Version:

7.x-2.x-dev

» 7.x-1.x-dev

Status	File	Size
new	allow_user_messages-1217280-6.patch	1.41 KB

Yeah... just realized the patch didn't allow people to view other people's message lists, but DID allow people to view other people's threads (even worse!). This is still a somewhat hackish attempt, but it works for my site.