Private message prefill message body

Question

I'm using Drupal 7 Privatemsg module. To prefill the message body, I use the following hook but don't get anything displayed.

function MyModule_privatemsg_message_view_alter(&$vars) {
  module_load_include('pages.inc','privatemsg');

  $vars['message']['body'] = "<i>Dear Friend</i>,\n <strong>you rock!</strong>";
}

Any help ?

Answer 1

One solution is to use the Prepopulate module and then customize the URL to send a privatemsg. This works well if you are using Views to generate the links, for example.