Use Events to Send an Email when a Page is Edited?

[cyberman]

Maybe there's something wrong with your mail() function?

[SimonSchaufi]

no no. like i said before, when i change a page and send an email, IT WORKS!!! But when adding a new user, it doesnt work!

[SimonSchaufi]

IT WORKS!!!

My mistake was a dash in the UDT name:

send-mail

is not working (warum auch immer)

That is the reason why the other method with the cmsmailer was not working as well!

[cyberman]

send-mail

is not working (warum auch immer)

You can read the reason here

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 205.0.html

(in german)

[SimonSchaufi]

Here my solution (a bit tuned ):

Make sure you dont save it with a dash in the UDT name!

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function validate_email($email){
   $exp = "^[a-z\'0-9]+([._-][a-z\'0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+([._-][a-z0-9]+))+$";
   if(eregi($exp,$email)){
      if(checkdnsrr(array_pop(explode("@",$email)),"MX")){
        return true;
      }else{
        return false;
      }
   }else{
      return false;
   }
}

global $gCms;
$sitename = get_site_preference('sitename', 'My Homepage'); /* If sitename is not set, use My Homepage */

$newuser =& $params['user'];

$bodytext = 'This is your new user account information:

First Name: '.$newuser->firstname.'
Last Name: '.$newuser->lastname.'

Username: '.$newuser->username.'
Password: '.$_POST["password"].'

Email: '.$newuser->email.'

Login here: '.$gCms->config["root_url"].DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$gCms->config["admin_dir"].'

After login please change your password here: My Preferences -> My Account!';

if($newuser->email != "" && validate_email($newuser->email)){
  $cmsmailer =& $gCms->modules['CMSMailer']['object'];
  $cmsmailer->AddAddress($newuser->email);
  $cmsmailer->SetBody($bodytext);
  $cmsmailer->IsHTML(false);
  $cmsmailer->SetSubject($sitename.' User Account Information');
  $cmsmailer->Send();
}

There is no possibility to get the password as plain text so you need to catch it from the POST var.

If nobody has any other suggestions, i will post it in the wiki

[calguy1000]

When working with events, each event will return different items in $params.  You have to check for this on a handler, by handler basis.

i.e: $params['content'] may not exist for every event, it may be something different, and even if it is..... it may not be a reference to an object, etc.

There is help for each event that describes what parameters are delivered (somewhat), and this would be a great place to start.  After that, I'd start with: 

print_r( $params ); die();

for every event handler, and then go from there.

[calguy1000]

I just looked at the source, and a skilled module developer could write a module, using Events to add versioning into CMS Made Simple.  It's a very nice system, the Events give CMS Made simple an extreme amount of flexibility and customising capability with just a bit of programming knowledge.

[OCStingFan]

How could this code (i.e the UDT in the wiki called "Send Email Notification on Page Change") be set up to send a notification to a dynamic group of recipients rather than an individual or unchanging group of recipients? I'm developing a site now for a school and the teachers will have their own pages to post notes for parents to check. An existing web-based solution which I am trying to emulate in the CMS allows the teacher to send a notification when their page is updated to the parents' email addresses. If a mailing list can be set up inside CMSMS (such as in the NMS module), can that be a basis for sending an email notification using Events?

[cyberman]

Maybe you should use FrontendUsers module?

It has an own event if user data are changed ...