Greetings From Alaska!
I have read the threads about how you can restrict messaging to Student:Teacher and Teacher:Anyone but what we would really like to do is restrict messaging capabilities so that students can only message students and teachers in their enrolled courses. Right now some of our younger students (we are a postsecondary Vocational school) are messaging students that they "see" on our main moodle home page. As far as I can tell teachers are not able to view messages that students send from outside their course. Moodle Admin can and the savvy student has figured out those messages are outside of the course. I would like to just disable messaging from our home page for students only. I would like teachers to be able to message each other without restriction.
Am I asking too much?
Thanks for your input.
Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Deb Burdick-Hinton -
Number of replies: 15
In reply to Deb Burdick-Hinton
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Mark Blanton -
Ditto!
We are in the same boat--we would like to restrict messaging so that students can only message students that are in the same course and course teachers. I haven't found a solution yet. The home page of moodle has become a giant "My Space." Students don't even have to be enrolled in a course...they just come to hang out and message.
Would appreciate any help, comments.
In reply to Mark Blanton
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Bruce Robinson -
Hi Folks,
you might like to try this fix which we got from this site several months ago.
It does work, but we are looking for a more subtle solution where we can switch it on and off at selected times and over school holidays.
From Moodle discussion Board,
To restrict messages so that students can send messages only to teachers and teachers can send messages to anyone, insert the following code in message/discussion.php at (currently) line 23 just before the line that starts ///Select Encoding
if(!isteacherinanycourse($USER->id)){ //GVA restriction on messages
if(!isteacherinanycourse($user->id)){
error("Students can only send Moodle messages to teachers.");
}
}
NOTE: We are about to trial an alternative method which we found at this link:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=38838
Bruce R
you might like to try this fix which we got from this site several months ago.
It does work, but we are looking for a more subtle solution where we can switch it on and off at selected times and over school holidays.
From Moodle discussion Board,
To restrict messages so that students can send messages only to teachers and teachers can send messages to anyone, insert the following code in message/discussion.php at (currently) line 23 just before the line that starts ///Select Encoding
if(!isteacherinanycourse($USER->id)){ //GVA restriction on messages
if(!isteacherinanycourse($user->id)){
error("Students can only send Moodle messages to teachers.");
}
}
NOTE: We are about to trial an alternative method which we found at this link:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=38838
Bruce R
In reply to Bruce Robinson
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Art Lader -
/// Select encoding seems to have vanished from 1.8.2.
Any idea where this should be inserted now? (discussion.php attached)
Thanks,
Art
Any idea where this should be inserted now? (discussion.php attached)
Thanks,
Art
In reply to Art Lader
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Rick Barnes -
I added it at line 23 I think and it works fine for us.
I can check if you need me to.
Rick.
I can check if you need me to.
Rick.
In reply to Rick Barnes
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Art Lader -
In reply to Art Lader
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Art Lader -
Hmmm, I must have done something wrong. Students can still send messages to each other.
-- Art
-- Art
In reply to Art Lader
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Rick Barnes -
Here is the code I am using for discussion.php
i have highlighted the hack in bold.
This works fine for me ( i had it working in 1.7.1 but not in 1.7.2 it now works fine in 1.8 after an upgrade. I tested it with a selection of student accounts, adding them as teachers to courses then removing them again.
I can email the file if you want.
Rick.
<?php // $Id: discussion.php,v 1.13 2007/01/03 20:35:10 skodak Exp $
require('../config.php');
require('lib.php');
require_login();
if (isguest()) {
redirect($CFG->wwwroot);
}
if (empty($CFG->messaging)) {
error("Messaging is disabled on this site");
}
/// Script parameters
$userid = required_param('id', PARAM_INT);
$noframesjs = optional_param('noframesjs', 0, PARAM_BOOL);
/// Check the user we are talking to is valid
if (! $user = get_record('user', 'id', $userid)) {
error("User ID was incorrect");
}
///test code
if(!isteacherinanycourse($USER->id)){ //GVA restriction on messages
if(!isteacherinanycourse($user->id)){
error("Students can only send Moodle messages to teachers.");
}
}
/// Check if frame&jsless mode selected
if (!get_user_preferences('message_noframesjs', 0) and !$noframesjs) {
/// Print frameset to contain all the various panes
@header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title><?php echo get_string('discussion', 'message').': '.fullname($user) ?></title>
</head>
<frameset rows="110,*,0,200">
<noframes><body><?php
echo '<a href="discussion.php?id='.$userid.'&noframesjs=1">'.get_string('noframesjs', 'message').'<a/>';
?></body></noframes>
<frame src="user.php?id=<?php p($user->id)?>&frame=user" name="user"
scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" />
<frame src="messages.php" name="messages"
scrolling="yes" marginwidth="10" marginheight="10" frameborder="0" />
<frame src="refresh.php?id=<?php p($user->id)?>&name=<?php echo urlencode(fullname($user)) ?>" name="refresh"
scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" />
<frame src="send.php?id=<?php p($user->id)?>" name="send"
scrolling="no" marginwidth="2" marginheight="2" frameborder="0" />
</frameset>
</html>
<?php
die;
}
/// user wants simple frame&js-less mode
$start = optional_param('start', time(), PARAM_INT);
$message = optional_param('message', '', PARAM_CLEAN);
$format = optional_param('format', FORMAT_MOODLE, PARAM_INT);
$refresh = optional_param('refresh', '', PARAM_RAW);
$last = optional_param('last', 0, PARAM_INT);
$newonly = optional_param('newonly', 0, PARAM_BOOL);
$addcontact = optional_param('addcontact', 0, PARAM_INT); // adding a contact
$removecontact = optional_param('removecontact', 0, PARAM_INT); // removing a contact
$blockcontact = optional_param('blockcontact', 0, PARAM_INT); // blocking a contact
$unblockcontact = optional_param('unblockcontact', 0, PARAM_INT); // unblocking a contact
if ($addcontact and confirm_sesskey()) {
add_to_log(SITEID, 'message', 'add contact',
'discussion.php?user1='.$addcontact.'&user2='.$USER->id, $addcontact);
message_add_contact($addcontact);
}
if ($removecontact and confirm_sesskey()) {
add_to_log(SITEID, 'message', 'remove contact',
'discussion.php?user1='.$removecontact.'&user2='.$USER->id, $removecontact);
message_remove_contact($removecontact);
}
if ($blockcontact and confirm_sesskey()) {
add_to_log(SITEID, 'message', 'block contact',
'discussion.php?user1='.$blockcontact.'&user2='.$USER->id, $blockcontact);
message_block_contact($blockcontact);
}
if ($unblockcontact and confirm_sesskey()) {
add_to_log(SITEID, 'message', 'unblock contact',
'history.php?user1='.$unblockcontact.'&user2='.$USER->id, $unblockcontact);
message_unblock_contact($unblockcontact);
}
/// Check that the user is not blocking us!!
if ($contact = get_record('message_contacts', 'userid', $user->id, 'contactid', $USER->id)) {
if ($contact->blocked and !has_capability('moodle/site:readallmessages', get_context_instance(CONTEXT_SYSTEM, SITEID))) {
print_heading(get_string('userisblockingyou', 'message'));
exit;
}
}
if (get_user_preferences('message_blocknoncontacts', 0, $user->id)) { // User is blocking non-contacts
if (empty($contact)) { // We are not a contact!
print_heading(get_string('userisblockingyounoncontact', 'message'));
exit;
}
}
$refreshedmessage = '';
if (!empty($refresh) and data_submitted()) {
$refreshedmessage = $message;
} else if (empty($refresh) and data_submitted() and confirm_sesskey()) {
if ($message!='') {
message_post_message($USER, $user, $message, $format, 'direct');
}
redirect('discussion.php?id='.$userid.'&start='.$start.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last);
}
$userfullname = fullname($user);
$mefullname = fullname($USER);
print_header(get_string('discussion', 'message').': '.fullname($user), '', '', 'edit-message');
echo '<div class="message-discussion-noframes">';
echo '<div id="userinfo">';
echo print_user_picture($user->id, SITEID, $user->picture, 48, true, true, 'userwindow');
echo '<div class="name"><h1>'.$userfullname.'</h1></div>';
echo '<div class="commands"><ul>';
if ($contact = get_record('message_contacts', 'userid', $USER->id, 'contactid', $user->id)) {
if ($contact->blocked) {
echo '<li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'add', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li><li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'unblock', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li>';
} else {
echo '<li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'remove', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li><li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'block', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li>';
}
} else {
echo '<li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'add', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li><li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'block', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li>';
}
echo '<li>';
message_history_link($user->id, 0, false, '', '', 'both');
echo '</li>';
echo '</ul>';
echo '</div>';
echo '</div>'; // class="userinfo"
echo '<div id="send">';
echo '<form id="editing" method="post" action="discussion.php">';
$usehtmleditor = (can_use_html_editor() && get_user_preferences('message_usehtmleditor', 0));
echo '<h1><label for="edit-message">'.get_string('sendmessage', 'message').'</label></h1>';
echo '<div>';
if ($usehtmleditor) {
print_textarea(true, 8, 34, 100, 100, 'message', $refreshedmessage);
use_html_editor('message', 'formatblock subscript superscript copy cut paste clean undo redo justifyleft justifycenter justifyright justifyfull lefttoright righttoleft insertorderedlist insertunorderedlist outdent indent inserthorizontalrule createanchor nolink inserttable');
echo '<input type="hidden" name="format" value="'.FORMAT_HTML.'" />';
} else {
print_textarea(false, 8, 50, 0, 0, 'message', $refreshedmessage);
echo '<input type="hidden" name="format" value="'.FORMAT_MOODLE.'" />';
}
echo '</div><div>';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="id" value="'.$user->id.'" />';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="start" value="'.$start.'" />';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="noframesjs" value="'.$noframesjs.'" />';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="last" value="'.time().'" />';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="sesskey" value="'.$USER->sesskey.'" />';
echo '<input type="submit" value="'.get_string('sendmessage', 'message').'" /> ';
echo '<input type="submit" name="refresh" value="'.get_string('refresh').'" />';
echo '<input type="checkbox" name="newonly" id="newonly" '.($newonly?'checked="checked" ':'').'/><label for="newonly">'.get_string('newonlymsg', 'message').'</label>';
echo '</div>';
echo '</form>';
echo '</div>';
echo '<div id="messages">';
echo '<h1>'.get_string('messages', 'message').'</h1>';
$allmessages = array();
$playbeep = false;
$options = new object();
$options->para = false;
$options->newlines = true;
if ($newonly) {
$lastsql = " AND timecreated > $last";
} else {
$lastsql = "";
}
if ($messages = get_records_select('message_read', "(useridto = '$USER->id' AND useridfrom = '$userid' AND timeread > '$start' $lastsql) OR (useridto = '$userid' AND useridfrom = '$USER->id' AND timeread > '$start' $lastsql)")) {
foreach ($messages as $message) {
$time = userdate($message->timecreated, get_string('strftimedaytime'));
if ($message->useridfrom == $USER->id) {
$fullname = $mefullname;
} else {
$fullname = $userfullname;
}
$printmessage = format_text($message->message, $message->format, $options, 0);
$printmessage = '<div class="message other"><span class="author">'.$fullname.'</span> '.
'<span class="time">['.$time.']</span>: '.
'<span class="content">'.$printmessage.'</span></div>';
$i=0;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i"; // we need string bacause we would run out of int range
while (array_key_exists($sortkey, $allmessages)) {
$i++;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i";
}
$allmessages[$sortkey] = $printmessage;
}
}
if ($messages = get_records_select('message', "useridto = '$userid' AND useridfrom = '$USER->id' $lastsql")) {
foreach ($messages as $message) {
$time = userdate($message->timecreated, get_string('strftimedaytime'));
$printmessage = format_text($message->message, $message->format, $options, 0);
$printmessage = '<div class="message other"><span class="author">'.$mefullname.'</span> '.
'<span class="time">['.$time.']</span>: '.
'<span class="content">'.$printmessage.'</span></div>';
$i=0;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i"; // we need string bacause we would run out of int range
while (array_key_exists($sortkey, $allmessages)) {
$i++;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i";
}
$allmessages[$sortkey] = $printmessage;
}
}
if ($messages = get_records_select('message', "useridto = '$USER->id' AND useridfrom = '$userid' $lastsql")) {
foreach ($messages as $message) {
$time = userdate($message->timecreated, get_string('strftimedaytime'));
$printmessage = format_text($message->message, $message->format, $options, 0);
$printmessage = '<div class="message other"><span class="author">'.$userfullname.'</span> '.
'<span class="time">['.$time.']</span>: '.
'<span class="content">'.$printmessage.'</span></div>';
$i=0;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i"; // we need string bacause we would run out of int range
while (array_key_exists($sortkey, $allmessages)) {
$i++;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i";
}
$allmessages[$sortkey] = $printmessage;
/// Move the entry to the other table
$messageid = $message->id;
unset($message->id);
$message->timeread = time();
$message = addslashes_object($message);
if (insert_record('message_read', $message)) {
delete_records('message', 'id', $messageid);
}
if ($message->timecreated < $start) {
$start = $message->timecreated; // move start back so that we see all current history
}
}
$playbeep = true;
}
krsort($allmessages);
if (empty($allmessages)) {
echo get_string('nomessagesfound', 'message');
} else {
echo '<ul class="messagelist">';
foreach ($allmessages as $message) {
echo '<li>';
echo $message;
echo '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
if ($playbeep and get_user_preferences('message_beepnewmessage', 0)) {
echo '<embed src="bell.wav" autostart="true" hidden="true" name="bell" />';
}
}
echo '</div></div>';
print_footer('none');
?>
i have highlighted the hack in bold.
This works fine for me ( i had it working in 1.7.1 but not in 1.7.2 it now works fine in 1.8 after an upgrade. I tested it with a selection of student accounts, adding them as teachers to courses then removing them again.
I can email the file if you want.
Rick.
<?php // $Id: discussion.php,v 1.13 2007/01/03 20:35:10 skodak Exp $
require('../config.php');
require('lib.php');
require_login();
if (isguest()) {
redirect($CFG->wwwroot);
}
if (empty($CFG->messaging)) {
error("Messaging is disabled on this site");
}
/// Script parameters
$userid = required_param('id', PARAM_INT);
$noframesjs = optional_param('noframesjs', 0, PARAM_BOOL);
/// Check the user we are talking to is valid
if (! $user = get_record('user', 'id', $userid)) {
error("User ID was incorrect");
}
///test code
if(!isteacherinanycourse($USER->id)){ //GVA restriction on messages
if(!isteacherinanycourse($user->id)){
error("Students can only send Moodle messages to teachers.");
}
}
/// Check if frame&jsless mode selected
if (!get_user_preferences('message_noframesjs', 0) and !$noframesjs) {
/// Print frameset to contain all the various panes
@header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title><?php echo get_string('discussion', 'message').': '.fullname($user) ?></title>
</head>
<frameset rows="110,*,0,200">
<noframes><body><?php
echo '<a href="discussion.php?id='.$userid.'&noframesjs=1">'.get_string('noframesjs', 'message').'<a/>';
?></body></noframes>
<frame src="user.php?id=<?php p($user->id)?>&frame=user" name="user"
scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" />
<frame src="messages.php" name="messages"
scrolling="yes" marginwidth="10" marginheight="10" frameborder="0" />
<frame src="refresh.php?id=<?php p($user->id)?>&name=<?php echo urlencode(fullname($user)) ?>" name="refresh"
scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" />
<frame src="send.php?id=<?php p($user->id)?>" name="send"
scrolling="no" marginwidth="2" marginheight="2" frameborder="0" />
</frameset>
</html>
<?php
die;
}
/// user wants simple frame&js-less mode
$start = optional_param('start', time(), PARAM_INT);
$message = optional_param('message', '', PARAM_CLEAN);
$format = optional_param('format', FORMAT_MOODLE, PARAM_INT);
$refresh = optional_param('refresh', '', PARAM_RAW);
$last = optional_param('last', 0, PARAM_INT);
$newonly = optional_param('newonly', 0, PARAM_BOOL);
$addcontact = optional_param('addcontact', 0, PARAM_INT); // adding a contact
$removecontact = optional_param('removecontact', 0, PARAM_INT); // removing a contact
$blockcontact = optional_param('blockcontact', 0, PARAM_INT); // blocking a contact
$unblockcontact = optional_param('unblockcontact', 0, PARAM_INT); // unblocking a contact
if ($addcontact and confirm_sesskey()) {
add_to_log(SITEID, 'message', 'add contact',
'discussion.php?user1='.$addcontact.'&user2='.$USER->id, $addcontact);
message_add_contact($addcontact);
}
if ($removecontact and confirm_sesskey()) {
add_to_log(SITEID, 'message', 'remove contact',
'discussion.php?user1='.$removecontact.'&user2='.$USER->id, $removecontact);
message_remove_contact($removecontact);
}
if ($blockcontact and confirm_sesskey()) {
add_to_log(SITEID, 'message', 'block contact',
'discussion.php?user1='.$blockcontact.'&user2='.$USER->id, $blockcontact);
message_block_contact($blockcontact);
}
if ($unblockcontact and confirm_sesskey()) {
add_to_log(SITEID, 'message', 'unblock contact',
'history.php?user1='.$unblockcontact.'&user2='.$USER->id, $unblockcontact);
message_unblock_contact($unblockcontact);
}
/// Check that the user is not blocking us!!
if ($contact = get_record('message_contacts', 'userid', $user->id, 'contactid', $USER->id)) {
if ($contact->blocked and !has_capability('moodle/site:readallmessages', get_context_instance(CONTEXT_SYSTEM, SITEID))) {
print_heading(get_string('userisblockingyou', 'message'));
exit;
}
}
if (get_user_preferences('message_blocknoncontacts', 0, $user->id)) { // User is blocking non-contacts
if (empty($contact)) { // We are not a contact!
print_heading(get_string('userisblockingyounoncontact', 'message'));
exit;
}
}
$refreshedmessage = '';
if (!empty($refresh) and data_submitted()) {
$refreshedmessage = $message;
} else if (empty($refresh) and data_submitted() and confirm_sesskey()) {
if ($message!='') {
message_post_message($USER, $user, $message, $format, 'direct');
}
redirect('discussion.php?id='.$userid.'&start='.$start.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last);
}
$userfullname = fullname($user);
$mefullname = fullname($USER);
print_header(get_string('discussion', 'message').': '.fullname($user), '', '', 'edit-message');
echo '<div class="message-discussion-noframes">';
echo '<div id="userinfo">';
echo print_user_picture($user->id, SITEID, $user->picture, 48, true, true, 'userwindow');
echo '<div class="name"><h1>'.$userfullname.'</h1></div>';
echo '<div class="commands"><ul>';
if ($contact = get_record('message_contacts', 'userid', $USER->id, 'contactid', $user->id)) {
if ($contact->blocked) {
echo '<li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'add', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li><li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'unblock', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li>';
} else {
echo '<li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'remove', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li><li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'block', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li>';
}
} else {
echo '<li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'add', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li><li>';
message_contact_link($user->id, 'block', false, 'discussion.php?id='.$user->id.'&noframesjs='.$noframesjs.'&newonly='.$newonly.'&last='.$last, true);
echo '</li>';
}
echo '<li>';
message_history_link($user->id, 0, false, '', '', 'both');
echo '</li>';
echo '</ul>';
echo '</div>';
echo '</div>'; // class="userinfo"
echo '<div id="send">';
echo '<form id="editing" method="post" action="discussion.php">';
$usehtmleditor = (can_use_html_editor() && get_user_preferences('message_usehtmleditor', 0));
echo '<h1><label for="edit-message">'.get_string('sendmessage', 'message').'</label></h1>';
echo '<div>';
if ($usehtmleditor) {
print_textarea(true, 8, 34, 100, 100, 'message', $refreshedmessage);
use_html_editor('message', 'formatblock subscript superscript copy cut paste clean undo redo justifyleft justifycenter justifyright justifyfull lefttoright righttoleft insertorderedlist insertunorderedlist outdent indent inserthorizontalrule createanchor nolink inserttable');
echo '<input type="hidden" name="format" value="'.FORMAT_HTML.'" />';
} else {
print_textarea(false, 8, 50, 0, 0, 'message', $refreshedmessage);
echo '<input type="hidden" name="format" value="'.FORMAT_MOODLE.'" />';
}
echo '</div><div>';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="id" value="'.$user->id.'" />';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="start" value="'.$start.'" />';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="noframesjs" value="'.$noframesjs.'" />';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="last" value="'.time().'" />';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="sesskey" value="'.$USER->sesskey.'" />';
echo '<input type="submit" value="'.get_string('sendmessage', 'message').'" /> ';
echo '<input type="submit" name="refresh" value="'.get_string('refresh').'" />';
echo '<input type="checkbox" name="newonly" id="newonly" '.($newonly?'checked="checked" ':'').'/><label for="newonly">'.get_string('newonlymsg', 'message').'</label>';
echo '</div>';
echo '</form>';
echo '</div>';
echo '<div id="messages">';
echo '<h1>'.get_string('messages', 'message').'</h1>';
$allmessages = array();
$playbeep = false;
$options = new object();
$options->para = false;
$options->newlines = true;
if ($newonly) {
$lastsql = " AND timecreated > $last";
} else {
$lastsql = "";
}
if ($messages = get_records_select('message_read', "(useridto = '$USER->id' AND useridfrom = '$userid' AND timeread > '$start' $lastsql) OR (useridto = '$userid' AND useridfrom = '$USER->id' AND timeread > '$start' $lastsql)")) {
foreach ($messages as $message) {
$time = userdate($message->timecreated, get_string('strftimedaytime'));
if ($message->useridfrom == $USER->id) {
$fullname = $mefullname;
} else {
$fullname = $userfullname;
}
$printmessage = format_text($message->message, $message->format, $options, 0);
$printmessage = '<div class="message other"><span class="author">'.$fullname.'</span> '.
'<span class="time">['.$time.']</span>: '.
'<span class="content">'.$printmessage.'</span></div>';
$i=0;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i"; // we need string bacause we would run out of int range
while (array_key_exists($sortkey, $allmessages)) {
$i++;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i";
}
$allmessages[$sortkey] = $printmessage;
}
}
if ($messages = get_records_select('message', "useridto = '$userid' AND useridfrom = '$USER->id' $lastsql")) {
foreach ($messages as $message) {
$time = userdate($message->timecreated, get_string('strftimedaytime'));
$printmessage = format_text($message->message, $message->format, $options, 0);
$printmessage = '<div class="message other"><span class="author">'.$mefullname.'</span> '.
'<span class="time">['.$time.']</span>: '.
'<span class="content">'.$printmessage.'</span></div>';
$i=0;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i"; // we need string bacause we would run out of int range
while (array_key_exists($sortkey, $allmessages)) {
$i++;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i";
}
$allmessages[$sortkey] = $printmessage;
}
}
if ($messages = get_records_select('message', "useridto = '$USER->id' AND useridfrom = '$userid' $lastsql")) {
foreach ($messages as $message) {
$time = userdate($message->timecreated, get_string('strftimedaytime'));
$printmessage = format_text($message->message, $message->format, $options, 0);
$printmessage = '<div class="message other"><span class="author">'.$userfullname.'</span> '.
'<span class="time">['.$time.']</span>: '.
'<span class="content">'.$printmessage.'</span></div>';
$i=0;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i"; // we need string bacause we would run out of int range
while (array_key_exists($sortkey, $allmessages)) {
$i++;
$sortkey = $message->timecreated."$i";
}
$allmessages[$sortkey] = $printmessage;
/// Move the entry to the other table
$messageid = $message->id;
unset($message->id);
$message->timeread = time();
$message = addslashes_object($message);
if (insert_record('message_read', $message)) {
delete_records('message', 'id', $messageid);
}
if ($message->timecreated < $start) {
$start = $message->timecreated; // move start back so that we see all current history
}
}
$playbeep = true;
}
krsort($allmessages);
if (empty($allmessages)) {
echo get_string('nomessagesfound', 'message');
} else {
echo '<ul class="messagelist">';
foreach ($allmessages as $message) {
echo '<li>';
echo $message;
echo '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
if ($playbeep and get_user_preferences('message_beepnewmessage', 0)) {
echo '<embed src="bell.wav" autostart="true" hidden="true" name="bell" />';
}
}
echo '</div></div>';
print_footer('none');
?>
In reply to Rick Barnes
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Art Lader -
Hi, Rick,
Thank you very much. Not working for me, though. Must be something about the version I am using. Screen capture attached.
Oh, well. Wish I could get this going.
Best regards,
Art
Thank you very much. Not working for me, though. Must be something about the version I am using. Screen capture attached.
Oh, well. Wish I could get this going.
Best regards,
Art
In reply to Art Lader
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Jeff Wood -
Try this:
Exactly what Rick has, just formatted a little different. I am using this now 1.8.2 and it works fine.
Jeff
Exactly what Rick has, just formatted a little different. I am using this now 1.8.2 and it works fine.
Jeff
In reply to Jeff Wood
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Art Lader -
Seems to be working now. 
Thanks, guys! I know of two schools around here that REALLY wanted that.
-- Art
P.S. -- http://docs.moodle.org/en/Messaging#See_also
Thanks, guys! I know of two schools around here that REALLY wanted that.
-- Art
P.S. -- http://docs.moodle.org/en/Messaging#See_also
In reply to Jeff Wood
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Larry Elchuck -
What mod is required to this hack (students can only send to their teachers) for 1.8.2 that will allow students to send messages to students within their course only and not to all users of the system?
thanks
thanks
In reply to Deb Burdick-Hinton
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Karen Fildes -
Do we know whether this has been resolved in 1.8.2? This is one function that I would really like to add to our Moodle server as we are now using the server in grade 5-12. Thanks!
In reply to Karen Fildes
Re: Restrict Messaging to communication between students in the same course
by Peter Evans -
Has their been any development on this to only allow participants send messages to people who are enrolled in the same course?
Or is there any way to stop people seeing hte search tab in the Message box so they can't find other people?
Any assistance very gratefully received.
Peter Evans
In reply to Peter Evans
Re: Restrict Messaging to communication between students in the same course
by Peter Evans -
In reply to Deb Burdick-Hinton
Re: Messaging: Restrict Messaging to Course Participants/Teachers
by Kevin Bruton -
You can use the mod "Dialogue" to do this. It is an activity you add to a course and it offers a lot of options with respect to the permissions the users have.