Private Message System

Hi
Can I limit how many messages the user sends in a day?


Cheers
Karl

The PMS has no such functionality. You'd have to implement your own way of tracking the number of messages sent and limiting sending more. The below triggers can help with that as you could possibly work something out using CB Auto Actions.

Before Create Message (e.g. validate if they're allowed to send anymore here and set an error on $this) After Create Message (e.g. increment whatever you're using to keep track of how many messages they sent)

Ok what tab do I use?

Auto Actions

System Actions

Uses

Batches

You configure custom auto actions under the auto actions page. CB > Plugin Management and under CB Auto Actions is a button to Auto Actions. On the CB menu at the top of the page you can also reach it with Plugin Management > Auto Actions > Auto Actions.

I am doing something wrong.

Please can you look at my screen shots.

This is going to be very complicated with little to no experience with CB Auto Actions and no coding experience as requires SQL and PHP knowledge. You may want to consult with a developer to consider having them implement this for you. The Uses feature is number of uses for the auto action. It has nothing to do with private message limits. The PM field also has nothing to do with number of private messages, it's just a link to send someone a private message.

You will need to implement a custom database table to keep track of how many messages they have sent within a given day. This would require at the very least a user_id | count | date column setup. You'd then need to update that database table using pm_onAfterCreateMessage trigger with a query action. Then on pm_onBeforeCreateMessage you'd need a Code action with a query condition to check if they're past their daily limit and in the code use PHP to set an error on var1.