This is what I use (You can see it here: [url=http://users.tpg.com.au/staer/Downloads/PostNuke-V.zip]PostNuke-V.zip[ /url ])

code:
<?PHP  ////// If logged
in, display welcome, else display loginform on top bar ////// 

	if (pnUserLoggedIn()) { $username = pnUserGetVar('uname');

	    echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;"._WELCOME.$username."!"; // If logged in,
show greeting



	// Display private messages

	list($dbconn) = pnDBGetConn();

	$pntable = pnDBGetTables();

	$column = &$pntable['priv_msgs_column'];

	// Get total number of messages from database

       	$result = $dbconn->Execute("SELECT count(*) FROM
$pntable[priv_msgs] WHERE $column[to_userid]=" . pnUserGetVar('uid'));

        list($messages) = $result->fields;

	// Get number of unread messages

	$result2 = $dbconn->Execute("SELECT count(*) FROM $pntable[priv_msgs]
WHERE $column[to_userid]=".pnUserGetVar('uid')." AND
$column[read_msg]='0'");

	list($unread) = $result2->fields;

       	if ($messages > 0) { ?>

		<SPAN class="topmenu"><?PHP echo _YOUHAVE ?> <A
href="Messages.html"><B><?PHP echo
pnVarPrepForDisplay($messages)	

       ."&nbsp;".($messages==1 ? _PRIVATEMSG : _PRIVATEMSGS)
?></b></a>, <?PHP echo "$unread "._UNREAD; ?>

       	</span>

<?PHP   } 

quote:

---

define('_WELCOME','Welcome ');
if (!defined("_YOUHAVE")) {
define('_YOUHAVE','You have'); }
if (!defined("_PRIVATEMSG")) {
define('_PRIVATEMSG','message'); }
if (!defined("_PRIVATEMSGS")) {
define('_PRIVATEMSGS','messages'); }
define('_UNREAD','unread');

---

its supposed to show the username adn the amount of read and unread messages when a user is logged in.

but need a gif or animated gif beside it (left) this will catch the logged in users eye and the digits (0|6) would be linked to the inbox or readbox.

Does this help ??

What does it DO or NOT do?
Where is this code located?

-Shawn

Can someone make this work??

if (pnUserLoggedIn()) {

//This is the database hit
list($dbconn) = pnDBGetConn();
$pntable = pnDBGetTables();
$column = &$pntable['priv_msgs_column'];
$result2 = $dbconn->Execute("SELECT count(*) FROM $pntable[priv_msgs] WHERE $column[to_userid]=" . pnUserGetVar('uid')." AND $column[read_msg]='0'");
list($numrow) = $result2->fields;
$result2->Close();

//Now starts the output
echo "Welcome to $sitename "
.pnUserGetVar("uname");

//This statement displays the amount of unread messages (or nothing if there are none)
if ($numrow == 0) {
echo"";
} else {
echo "&nbspYou have&nbsp".pnVarPrepForDisplay($numrow)." ";

//This should be fairly self explainatory!
if ($numrow==1) {
echo "new message";
}
elseif ($numrow>1) {
echo "new messages";
}
echo"";
}

//This message will come up if no o­ne is logged.
}else{
echo"Please register (or somthing...)";
}

it's not working properly for 0.7.2.3

this modified as a command would be excellent, but fixed
any takers hahaaa