Grabbing the Conversation Message in _postSave() When Warning Issued.

[Brent W]

I am trying to do this with my new add-on but I am having problems figuring out how to grab the conversation message. _postSave() doesn't appear to have access to it in anyway. XenForo_Member::actionWarn has the variable $conversationInput['conversation_message'] available but I don't see how I can get it into _postSave() to use. Any ideas?

 

[Chris D]

You probably can't get the Warning DW to become "aware" of the conversation process.

A quick look tells me that you might only be able to do what you want by extending the controller. This is far from ideal, and may take some doing, but I think it should be possible.

Side note, XF2 structures things like this in a much better way by structuring such processes into a "Service" object. Doing what you want to do is likely to be a lot easier there (I know that doesn't help you right now, but, one day ).

 

[Brent W]

You probably can't get the Warning DW to become "aware" of the conversation process.

A quick look tells me that you might only be able to do what you want by extending the controller. This is far from ideal, and may take some doing, but I think it should be possible.

Side note, XF2 structures things like this in a much better way by structuring such processes into a "Service" object. Doing what you want to do is likely to be a lot easier there (I know that doesn't help you right now, but, one day ).

It isn't a deal breaker so I can wait for XF2 for that part. It will make our moderators happy to eventually have that information though.

 

[Xon]

I am trying to do this with my new add-on but I am having problems figuring out how to grab the conversation message. _postSave() doesn't appear to have access to it in anyway. XenForo_Member::actionWarn has the variable $conversationInput['conversation_message'] available but I don't see how I can get it into _postSave() to use. Any ideas?

You need to jump through some hoops. Look at my Warning Improvements which allows conversation emails to be send even to banned users when a warning is issued.

Post Save capture of the warning data writer:
https://github.com/Xon/XenForo-Warn...ements/XenForo/DataWriter/Warning.php#L51-L58

Intercept before the conversation is dispatched, and force it to be sent if they are banned or not:
https://github.com/Xon/XenForo-Warn...ngImprovements/XenForo/Model/Conversation.php

Or you can just extend the conversation writer and do something if the tracking variable is set.

 

[Brent W]

You need to jump through some hoops. Look at my Warning Improvements which allows conversation emails to be send even to banned users when a warning is issued.

Post Save capture of the warning data writer:
https://github.com/Xon/XenForo-Warn...ements/XenForo/DataWriter/Warning.php#L51-L58

Intercept before the conversation is dispatched, and force it to be sent if they are banned or not:
https://github.com/Xon/XenForo-Warn...ngImprovements/XenForo/Model/Conversation.php

Or you can just extend the conversation writer and do something if the tracking variable is set.

Thanks!

 

[Brent W]

You need to jump through some hoops. Look at my Warning Improvements which allows conversation emails to be send even to banned users when a warning is issued.

Post Save capture of the warning data writer:
https://github.com/Xon/XenForo-Warn...ements/XenForo/DataWriter/Warning.php#L51-L58

Intercept before the conversation is dispatched, and force it to be sent if they are banned or not:
https://github.com/Xon/XenForo-Warn...ngImprovements/XenForo/Model/Conversation.php

Or you can just extend the conversation writer and do something if the tracking variable is set.

This add-on helped me understand a bit more about XenForo and Object Oriented programming. Thanks again.

 

[Brent W]

Ok, so I have extended DataWriter_Warning::_postSave and DataWriter_ConversationMessage:ostSave and now have conversations appearing in my threads that are created.

The problem is that if I send a warning without a conversation then no thread is created at all because my code to create the thread is inside the ConversationMessage::_postSave which is not run.

A warning thread should be able to be created regardless of there being a message sent or not.

Not sure how I can cover both scenarios and still get the warning thread created...