How do you send a message programmatically?

use fep_send_message()

How do you use it? As far as I could read from the code, I needed to do the following:

//Send private message to guest.
  $message['message_to_id'] = $guest_id;
  $message['message_title'] = $current_user->user_firstname . __('  confirmed you', 'text-domain');
  $message['message_content'] = __('You have been confirmed as a guest on ','text-domain') . get_post_meta($event_id, '_job_title', true);
  fep_send_message($message);

Are there more requirements than the three fields? When sending messages from the system.

If you do not set post_author then sender will be current user

How would that look? I’ve looked through the code and came up with the following, which does not work:

//Send private message to guest.
  $message['message_to_id'] = $guest_id;
  $message['post_author'] = 1; //TODO: Change to System user ID
  $message['message_title'] = $full_name . __(' have confirmed you', 'text-domain');
  $message['message_content'] = __('You have been confirmed') . '"' . get_post_meta($event_id, '_job_title', true) . '"';

  fep_send_message($message);

How can you set the post_author? So the “from user” is not the current user?

Btw. the latest commit fixed the unread message count problem!
Thanks!

second argument support $override as array. Supply any value which you want to override.
try following way

//Send private message to guest.
  $message['message_to_id'] = $guest_id;
  //$message['post_author'] = 1; //TODO: Change to System user ID
  $message['message_title'] = $full_name . __(' have confirmed you', 'text-domain');
  $message['message_content'] = __('You have been confirmed') . '"' . get_post_meta($event_id, '_job_title', true) . '"';

	$override = array (
		'post_author' => $author_id
		);
  fep_send_message($message, $override );

Also let me know if you found issue about nicename with dashes.

Thank you Shamim! That worked straight away.
There was no problem regarding dashes, I found that someone had switched on some caching, preventing me from seeing any arriving messages.

Everything working perfectly as of now – great plugin!

hi
i tried frontend pm i want to know is it possible,
my requirement is
i want a system i which user can only send message to admin (TO column is hidden, it by default is set to admin)
second a user and admin see all previous conversation between them in one place