notify the author of the article

Hi,

there is a mail notification for the authors of comments.

there is also a notification for admin.

is it possible to notify the author of the article?

Thanks.

Hi lemur,

with a small hack, or you can wait for the next release, what do you think ?

Regards
Max

Max,

This is exactly what I need we well. I don't mind doing the hack, could you point me in the right direction though? When is the next release scheduled?

Thanks for any help you can give me on this. Chrono-Comments is by far the best solution out there, but I *need* this one feature.

Hi Shane,

you will find one line like the one below in the components/com_chronocomments/chronocomments.php

JUtility::sendMail($from, $fromname, $recipients, $subject, $email_body, $mode);

add this code below it :

global $mainframe;
$database =& JFactory::getDBO();
$query     = "SELECT * FROM #__users WHERE id='".$row->created_by."'";
$database->setQuery( $query );
$user = $database->loadObject();

JUtility::sendMail($fromemail, $fromname, $user->email, $subject, $email_body, $mode);

you will need to give some values to the variables in the last line!

let me know how this goes

Regards
Max

Thanks Max, that's perfect. I will do that tonight and let you know.

Hey Everyone,

First of all nice job on this component, its pretty simple for my users to work with and has everything it needs to be a comments system.

Well anyway, I wanted to contribute a little bit, I was also trying to send a notification email to the author of the article everytime someone wrote down a comment.

Using the instructions provided on the last post I made a little tweak my self also.

With this code you'll be able to send an email containing the text of the comment to the respective author of the article they are writing on.

                global $mainframe;
                $tmpdb =& JFactory::getDBO();
                $pageid = $post['pageid'];
                $tmpquery     = "SELECT DISTINCT #__users.email FROM #__users JOIN #__content on #__users.id = #__content.created_by and #__content.id ='".$pageid."'";
                $tmpdb->setQuery( $tmpquery );
                $tmpuser = $tmpdb->loadObject();
                JUtility::sendMail("email@from.com", "fromName", $tmpuser->email, "Subject here", $post['text'], true, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL );

You can set it up on the com_chronocomments/chronocomments.php between the send verification and send admin notification email.

I hope this was what you were looking for.

Regards

Miguel 😀

Thanks for sharing this! 🙂

Regards,
Max