HOW TO DISABLE AND REMOVE TITLE IN A MESSGE

Hello forum i want a help from you huys on how to disable the title and remove permanently from the message fields thanks waiting..........

What messages?  Possible screenshot would be nice.

mailbox: before a user is allowed send a message using his mailbox he has write the title of what he want to send same thing applicable when he want to reply the message,,,,,,,,,,,,,my users are complaining please how do i get rid of this?

This is going to require editing the mail script.  While emails can be sent without a subject; which is what the title is, the subject of the email, it is really not good practice.  I don't know why your members are wanting it removed because if they use email at all they will know about entering a subject; however, you need to remove the check for the subject/title line in the mail script.

can you guide me through on how to do it i dont wanna get my site down

SECONDLY i did delete the post but can you answer to the post here?

IT GOES LIKE THIS

Hello, just noticed your titles are in all caps.  I don't know if you realise it or not but on the internet that is considered shouting.

Anyway, here is your $200.00 USD answer to your question.  First of all, you can not have a blank subject; it is used to form the URL so that you have something to click on to view the message.  What we will do is to make a few changes so that if the subject line is blank, then the subject will be "No Subject"

In mail.php you need to find the following:

                if(!$sMessageSubject) {
                    $sErrorMessage = '_Mailbox title empty';
                }

Change that to

                if(!$sMessageSubject) {
                    $sMessageSubject = 'No Subject';
                }

Now you need to disable the javascript alert message.  In /inc/js/mail_box.js find:

            var sComposeSubject =  $.trim($('#' + htmlSelectors[1]).attr('value'));
            if(!sComposeSubject) {
                sErrorMessage = _t('_Mailbox title empty');
            }

Delete the part:

            if(!sComposeSubject) {
                sErrorMessage = _t('_Mailbox title empty');
            }

Make backups of your files first.  You may need to clear caches including your browser cache.

hmmn thanks for that so what about the simple messenger how to display and read simple messenger messages in your mail box?

thanks for the 200dlrs yelling

You want simple messenger messages in your mailbox? That's like getting twitter messages to your email! Are u sure you want this? And how can people answer to messages in the mailbox? 

I would reconsider this and I am not going to work to find a solution for free.  If you want it, you can try posting a job for it.

You can remove the extra postings. 

I was not angry; my apologies if it comes off like that.  I should have said that what you want is probably not going to be simple and you should post in the jobs forum.  The two modules in question serve two different purposes; one if for email type messages and the other is for interactive chat between members in real time.  If you don't want users having a simple chat system, then uninstall the simple messenger and they can simply use the email system.

Please how do i hide the subject field?

So you are not going to allow your members to make the decision or not on if they want to add a subject?  The fix I gave simply allow one to not have to enter a subject if they so desired; however, they still can tell the person they are sending the message to, what the subject is.  For example, "Party Saturday Night; RSVP".  What you want to do is to limit your members and every message on your site will have "No Subject" as the subject.  If a member gets 10 messages, there is nothing to indicate what they are for.

"No Subject"

"No Subject"

"No Subject"

"No Subject"

"No Subject"

"No Subject"

"No Subject"

"No Subject"

is what your members will always see in their inbox.  The subject needs to be there as it is the link to click on to open the message.

i had changed that to new message so the wont see no subject

 OK, then they will see this in their inbox:

new message

new message

new message

new message

new message

new message

new message

and when they reply it will be:

Reply: new message

However, it is your site.

Hey, I followed the instructions you had given to disable the subject Text box  but a pop up still comes up indicating the field being empty. can you help me fix it ?

im on dolphin 7.1.4 

Thank you

 Don't know how you did yours bit mine works fine.

 Did you follow all the changes?  Did you do the /inc/js/mail_box.js change for the alert box?  Go back and work through it again, you may have missed something.

If setting the default Subject to "No Subject" - will the user be able to overwrite this with a subject.

Professor, the way I set it up, if the user types a message to someone and does not add a title, it automatically adds the "No Subject" so that there is a link generated to click on.  Otherwise the member can just add the subject to the message in the normal way.  I don't know about the OP but I did not set a default subject; I merely check to see if the subject field is blank and if so, then set it to "No Subject".

ok, cool - thanks