If it's a messaging system

greg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:05:58 +0000

If it's a messaging system you made on your site, I made one of these recently.
I simply made a blocked list and friends list for members.

So they could set their own message system to be one of three things:
1) Recieve all, could block certain users
2) Recieve only from friends, user sending had to be on reciepient's friends list
3) Block all, only admin/mods could send this person a message

1, 2 and 3 are a set label in each users row in the DB table - allow_all, friends and block_all (DB field named messagetype)
Default upon registration is allow_all.

Then the queries are in if else. So for example -
If $row['messagetype'] == "allow_all" - then check sender is not on blocked list, if yes then tell sender is blocked for this user, else allow message to be sent

you get the idea
It is a little tricky, but not hard to check for the correct things depending on what the user has their messaging preferences set to.

I see what you mean, at the

drew22299 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:47:52 +0000

I see what you mean, at the moment users can view any profile and send a message to a user (not using that users email because it's not displayed, messages go to the message table. I'm guessing I would need a friends list or some sort of privacy setting that users could use to control who can send them a message?

Adding to what pr0gr4mm3r

greg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:54:28 +0000

Adding to what pr0gr4mm3r wrote, do you allow anyone send messages to anyone?

What I'm asking (and I 'think' is what pr0gr4mm3r was getting at) for what reasons (or under what circumstance) would you NOT want a certain user to send another user an email?

If users have access to all profiles, and therefore all email addresses as they are in the profiles, maybe it is not a problem?

What kind of users can

pr0gr4mm3r — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:09:08 +0000

What kind of users can messages be sent to?