Questions about Events Adding notification to Content Edit

[dmgd]

CMS Made Simple 1.0.4 "Lanai"
Apache Version Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/4.4.4 mod_throttle/3.1.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_psoft_traffic/0.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

I want to email a group in the event content has been added deleted edited.  I thought  Events should handle this. I searched and found this article
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,6041.0.html

If I follow the thread,  I could use event ContentEditPost  and add a UDT to email a group  that content had been edited and supply the page id.  Is this possible?  Has anyone accomplished this?

Thanks Mark

[calguy1000]

Yes, you should be able to do exactly this in a UDT.  You'd want to do a print_r( $params ); in your UDT (before sending the email) to see what variables, etc, are available to use.

This exactly the type of stuff events are designed for.

[dmgd]

Thanks Calguy. I have a couple of question.
1)  How do I just get 1 params? I tried $params[ 'varname' ] and $params[ 'content' ][ 'varname' ], but no luck.  I admit I am no where near php expert but it seemed pretty straight forward.  What am I missing. The params I see with print_r($params) are

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Array
(
    [content] => content Object
        (
            [mId] => 22
            [mName] => Layout Options
            [mType] => content
            [mOwner] => 1
            [mProperties] => contentproperties Object
                (
                    [mPropertyNames] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => content_en
                        )

                    [mPropertyTypes] => Array
                        (
                            [content_en] => string
                        )

                    [mPropertyValues] => Array
                        (
                            [content_en] =>  REMOVED FOR READABILITY
                        )

                    [mAllowedPropertyNames] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => content_en
                        )

                )

            [mPropertiesLoaded] => 1
            [mParentId] => -1
            [mOldParentId] => -1
            [mTemplateId] => 17
            [mItemOrder] => 3
            [mOldItemOrder] => 3
            [mMetadata] => 
            [mTitleAttribute] => 
            [mAccessKey] => 
            [mTabIndex] => 
            [mHierarchy] => 00003
            [mIdHierarchy] => 22
            [mHierarchyPath] => layout-options
            [mMenuText] => Layout Options
            [mActive] => 1
            [mAlias] => layout-options
            [mOldAlias] => layout-options
            [mCachable] => 1
            [mPreview] => 1
            [mShowInMenu] => 1
            [mDefaultContent] => 
            [mMarkup] => html
            [mLastModifiedBy] => 1
            [mCreationDate] => 2007-02-03 06:47:47
            [mModifiedDate] => 2007-02-28 08:56:27
            [mAdditionalEditors] => Array
                (
                )

            [mReadyForEdit] => 1
            [additionalContentBlocks] => Array
                (
                )

            [addtContentBlocksLoaded] => 1
            [mChildCount] => 0
        )

)

2) If I make an edit and click Submit and not Apply the UDT is not run.  This may not be the way to do this anyway.

[Acornweb]

Hmmm, I can't even get that far.

I'm trying to write a bridge between frontEndUsers and Vanilla forum.

I had it working by editing the module directly, but something is failing when users make an error in their login (the page returns null) - I'm trying events now to do it properly.

I've written a UDT and linked it to the FEU event "onLogin" - all the UDT is is an echo statement followed by a  print_r( $params );

I don't get any output to screen, so how do I know the UDT is even being called?

From reviewing the code I see that params will only include username and ip address, when I really need password as well. I guess I will have to edit the PHP module after all.

[bladenet]

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you need, but it will probably help.
From the Developers FAQ:

Can I access a module from within a plugin?

I'm writing a plugin or a UDT (User Defined Tag), and I'd really like to be able to interface with the XYZ module. How do I go about it?

Answer: Yes, via $gCms->modules

A list of all of the installed modules (at least those that have frontend functionality) is available in the global $gCms object. You can access that object like this:

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  global $gCms;
  if( !isset( $gCms->modules['TheModuleIWant'] ) || !isset( $gCms->modules['TheModuleIWant']['object'] ) )
    {
       return;
    }
  $themoduleiwant = $gCms->modules['TheModuleIWant']['object'];
  $themoduleiwant->DoThis($somedata);
  $themoduleiwant->DoThat($somemoredata);

This may not be the best way to handle it, as you're not sure if you're accessing a module that has or has not been installed yet, etc. but it's close enough to get you started. You can always use var_dump and print_r on the various portions of the $gCms object to see what is available.