Private Messaging

[eluser]nZac[/eluser]
[quote author="Phil Sturgeon" date="1247149540"]One useful feature is to consider messages threads. PM systems I have madei n the past all sent multiple messages to multiple recipients but it got very confusing as to who was replying to what.

If a message is a thread, then the thread_id can be sent to a user and they all share the message which also has the thread_id attached. This way "reply to all" works fine and the db content is cut down as sending to 20 people wont add 20 new message entries.

Another feature I'd like to see is PyroCMS integration ;-)[/quote]

Very interesting idea. The last PM system I made had something called a convo_id which was what I was going to use exactly like you said. The only problem with this is that how will I know if a recipient has read the message (on a per recipient basis)?? Unless the convo_id has another table associated that has a couple of fields, like convo_id:read_by:last_read_by:last_read_on

Where read_by is an array of user id's

What do you think?