Send email on document publish?

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dev_cw Reply #1, 18 years, 1 month ago

Is there a plugin that will send an email when a document is published or edited? I thought I saw this before but have not found anything. Would OnDocPublished and OnDocFormSave be the best events for this?

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bunk58 Reply #2, 18 years, 1 month ago

Here’s a modified version of one originally written by Rachel Black.
I doubt it needs much explanation.
I’ve used a chunk named "Emailer" with the placeholders and email text.
The plugin would need the appropriate System Event ticked.
Tested quickly, but it seems to work.

$e = &$modx->Event;
if($e->name == 'OnDocFormSave') {
$pageid = $_POST['id'];
$pagetitle = $_POST['pagetitle'];
$editor = $modx->getLoginUserID() ;
$editedby = $modx->db->getValue('SELECT `username` FROM `modx_manager_users` WHERE `id` = 1');
$message = $modx->getChunk('Emailer');
$message = str_replace("[+id+]", $_POST['id'], $message);
$message = str_replace("[+pagetitle+]", $_POST['pagetitle'], $message);
$message = str_replace("[+editedby+]", $editedby, $message);
$to = '[email protected]';
$subject = "Doc edited report";
$sender = $modx->config['emailsender'];
if(!mail("$to", $emailsubject, $message, "From: ".$sender."\r\n"."X-Mailer: Content Manager - PHP/".phpversion()))
{
$modx->logEvent(1,3,"$to, $subject, $message, $sender", "Email");
}
return true;
}

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bunk58 Reply #3, 18 years, 1 month ago

Getting carried away with this plugin business.
Here’s an improved version with configuration parameters for :
which plugin event, to email address, email subject & chunk name.
Plugin code :

$e = &$modx->Event;

if($e->name == ''.$piEvent.'') {
$pageid = $_POST['id'];
$pagetitle = $_POST['pagetitle'];
$editor = $modx->getLoginUserID() ;
$editedby = $modx->db->getValue('SELECT `username` FROM `modx_manager_users` WHERE `id` = 1');

$message = $modx->getChunk(''.$tplChunk.'');
$message = str_replace("[+id+]", $_POST['id'], $message);
$message = str_replace("[+pagetitle+]", $_POST['pagetitle'], $message);
$message = str_replace("[+editedby+]", $editedby, $message);

$sender = $modx->config['emailsender'];

if(!mail("$to", $subject, $message, "From: ".$sender."\r\n"."X-Mailer: Content Manager - PHP/".phpversion()))
{
$modx->logEvent(1,3,"$to, $subject, $message, $sender", "Email");
}
return true;
}

Plugin configuration settings :

&to=Mail To;string;[email protected] &piEvent=Plug In Event;string;OnDocFormSave &tplChunk=Chunk Name;string;Emailer &subject=Email Subject;string;Who's been messing with my site?

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dev_cw Reply #4, 18 years, 1 month ago

Thanks, that is a great help indeed. grin

BTW - I have often wondered, is $_POST[’documentVariable’] the way to access document variables in a plugin? What about template variables, can these be accessed in the same way $_POST[’tvName’]?

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Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #5, 18 years, 1 month ago

This sounds helpful.

Guys, be sure to put in the repo and not let this cool stuff buried in the forums.

Thanks.

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bunk58 Reply #6, 18 years, 1 month ago

This is a print of the TV array using the event OnTVFormSave

Array
(
    [id] => 11
    [mode] => 301
    [params] => 
    [stay] => 
    [name] => Name
    [caption] => Name
    [description] => Name
    [type] => richtext
    [elements] => 
    [default_text] => @DOCUMENT 37
    [display] => 
    [rank] => 0
    [template] => Array
        (
            [0] => 6
            [1] => 11
        )

    [chkalldocs] => on
    [categoryid] => 16
    [newcategory] => 
    [save] => Submit Query
)

So I suppose you could access them via a plugin using the appropriate $_POST[’whatever’] format.
Adding on to the original plugin you can add the conent of the page with $_POST[’ta’] so you could see what they’d done!