Question Turn off View Message Link

[webi]

Hello,

how can you turn off the "View Message" link in the ACP?
We do not want that anyone can read a personal message from a user.

Regards

 

[Ozzy47]

There is no way to turn it off, only users with superadministraror privileges can see/use the link.

 

[webi]

OK then even a feature request which you can disable it globally by ACP.

Regards

 

[Ozzy47]

How many people do you have set as super admins in includes/config.php?

 

[webi]

There are currently 4 super admins.
It is the principle that we do not read the private messages from our users at us.

 

[Ozzy47]

So then don't click on the link. If there was a setting, one of the admins could simply turn it on and view them, so a setting is useless IMO.

 

[webi]

which file should be edited as to hide the link?

 

[Ozzy47]

The file is vbsuper_pm_stats.php

Find this twice:

if (in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], preg_split('#\s*,\s*#s', $vbulletin->config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'], -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY)))

Change it to:

if (in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], preg_split('#\s*,\s*#s', $vbulletin->config['SpecialUsers']['superadministratorssss'], -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY)))

 

[webi]

Thank you for the support.
I have adjusted the line with the link so that the table remains unchanged.

 $cell[] = "<!--a href=\"vbsuper_pm_stats.php?do=showpm&pmtextid= $log[pmtextid]\"--> $vbphrase[dbtech_vbsuper_pm_view_message]<!--/a-->";

 

[Ozzy47]

Yeah you could do that to. But why leave a defunct column in the table?