Email notification on new article

[hansi999]

Hello,

is the a way to make pivotx send an notification email, when a new article is posted? This is possible for new comments only.

Thanks in advance.

Hansi

[Harm10]

I guess you don't mean a notification for the users who already commented? Because they can specify it when they are entering their comment.

In the weblog definitions you can set a mail address to sent a notification for every new comment. Would that help?

[hansi999]

Exactly, i don't mean comment notification. I would like to be informed via email if a new article is posted.

I build a workaround using rsstail on my linux server, which is sending me an email.

I am just asking myself if there is an easier way to do this.

[Harm10]

I don't think that is standard in PivotX. If the article published is an entry and there is a RSS feed you could get an update from there.

[hansi999]

Ok, thanks, so i'll stick with my notification script.

[hansfn]

Take a look at the Execute an Extension at posting forum thread. Maybe it's better than your notification script - or maybe not.

[hansi999]

Thanks a lot! Exaclty what i searched for & I got it working.

But how do i exaclty know if an entry is created or updated? $entry['code'] gives me just the index of the entry, i think.
The code is from the example:

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if ($entry['code']==">") {
        $text .= "created";
    } else {
        $text .= "updated";
    }

[hansfn]

If you use flatfile database, that code is correct - a new entry has code set to ">". For MySQL database, you might need to check the date or something else. To get an idea about what to you can check, just insert

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debug_printr($entry);

in the function and compare the output when creating and updating an entry. (You must turn on PivotX debugging.)

[hansi999]

I'm using flatfile database, but a new entry has not the code set to ">", it is the number of the entry.

If I look at the debug output I also just get the number [code] => 16 of the entry, like it should be when using MySQL.

I'd like to have an esay way to distiguish between updated and new entries, is there a way to get the totalnumber of entries, so i could compare this?

Thanks in advance.

[Harm10]

How about comparing $entry.date / $entry.publish_date / $entry.edit_date ?
Unpublishing and publishing again will give peculiar results but you have an indication looking at these data.