Email notifications when your story is promoted or commented on.

[gragland]

I would like to have the story submitter automatically notified by email when their story is commented on or promoted. Has anyone done this before? If so it would be great if you could share your code with me. I can probably handle the code that sends the email if someone could help me with where I'de want to put the code. Which file (libs/comments.php perhaps?) and in which function. Thanks!

[Korak]

I agree, this would be a very useful and appreciated feature.

Hope to see it added in a futere version of Pligg..

[gragland]

Ok, heres some code you can add to have new comment notifications. Beware, I'm using Pligg 8 and I don't know how much the comments.php file has changes since then so you can give this a shot but It may not work in Pligg 9. Maybe someone can test it out and let us know.

Add this to libs/comments.php under the line: "if($this->id===0) {"

$story_submitter = $db->get_var("SELECT link_author FROM links WHERE link_id = $this->link");
$story_submitter_email = $db->get_var("SELECT user_email FROM users WHERE user_id = $story_submitter");
$story_commenter_name = $db->get_var("SELECT user_login FROM users WHERE user_id = $comment_author");
$story_name = $db->get_var("SELECT link_title FROM links WHERE link_id = $comment_link");
$email = $story_submitter_email;
$subject = "Text for your emails subject";
$body = "This message is to inform you that the user \"" . $story_commenter_name. "\" has just commented on your post \"" . $story_name . ".\" You can go here to view your post and read all of its comments: http://www.yoursite.com/story/" . $comment_link . ".";
mail($email, $subject, $body, "From: admin@yoursite.com");

[Korak]

Cool, it would also be great if there was in option in the user CP to enable this or not.

[monica79]

Found this thread thru search...similar to what I want to do.
Notify users via email when a new story reaches the front page.

In particular I would like it with $subject = (title of the story)
$body = (url to the story)

And yes like the above comment says a check box in the user profile would be important.

Could be useful to lots of people...anyone...???

[not2serious]

I would be interested in using this if the mod was developed.

[Simon]

As a matter of practicality, I would suggest not mailing the story submitter everytime a comment is added - potentially heavy on server resources. A better option would be a reader's digest (daily or weekly).

[nationalchamps]

I would also love to see this feature added. I'll give this a try.