direct messages in api have some issues, not properly ported from friendica originally. Here's a start.

I think at best they may return encrypted gibberish currently, but let's work through them one at a time.

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/include/Contact.php b/include/Contact.php
index 4b45a2392..233798181 100644
--- a/include/Contact.php
+++ b/include/Contact.php
@@ -594,7 +594,8 @@ function random_profile() {
 		if(!$r) return ''; // Couldn't get a random channel
 
 		if($checkrandom) {
-			if(z_fetch_url($r[0]['xchan_url'])['success'])
+			$x = z_fetch_url($r[0]['xchan_url']);
+			if($x['success'])
 				return $r[0]['xchan_url'];
 			else
 				logger('Random channel turned out to be bad.');
diff --git a/include/api.php b/include/api.php
index aeee95d3b..9954bb67e 100644
--- a/include/api.php
+++ b/include/api.php
@@ -1868,11 +1868,11 @@ require_once('include/items.php');
 		
 		require_once("include/message.php");
 
-		$r = q("SELECT `id` FROM `contact` WHERE `uid`=%d AND `nick`='%s'",
-				intval(api_user()),
-				dbesc($_POST['screen_name']));
+		$r = q("SELECT `abook_id` FROM `abook` WHERE `abook_channel`=%d ",
+				intval(api_user())
+		);
 
-		$recipient = api_get_user($a, $r[0]['id']);			
+		$recipient = api_get_user($a, $r[0]['abook_id']);			
 		$replyto = '';
 		$sub     = '';
 		if (x($_REQUEST,'replyto')) {
@@ -1925,10 +1925,11 @@ require_once('include/items.php');
 		if ($page<0) $page=0;
 		
 		$start = $page*$count;
-		
-		$profile_url = $a->get_baseurl() . '/channel/' . $a->user['nickname'];
+		$channel = $a->get_channel();		
+
+		$profile_url = $a->get_baseurl() . '/channel/' . $channel['channel_address'];
 		if ($box=="sentbox") {
-			$sql_extra = "`from-url`='".dbesc( $profile_url )."'";
+			$sql_extra = "`from_xchan`='".dbesc( $channel['channel_hash'] )."'";
 		}
 		elseif ($box=="conversation") {
 			$sql_extra = "`parent_mid`='".dbesc( $_GET["uri"] )  ."'";
@@ -1937,10 +1938,10 @@ require_once('include/items.php');
 			$sql_extra = "true";
 		}
 		elseif ($box=="inbox") {
-			$sql_extra = "`from-url`!='".dbesc( $profile_url )."'";
+			$sql_extra = "`from_xchan`!='".dbesc( $channel['channel_hash'] )."'";
 		}
 		
-		$r = q("SELECT * FROM `mail` WHERE uid=%d AND $sql_extra ORDER BY created DESC LIMIT %d OFFSET %d",
+		$r = q("SELECT * FROM `mail` WHERE channel_id = %d AND $sql_extra ORDER BY created DESC LIMIT %d OFFSET %d",
 				intval(api_user()),
 				intval($count), intval($start)
 		);