News Module Comment Notification

[G4]

NEWS MODULE

When you post a news item. People can comment.
Is it possible whenever some one leaves a comments. The writer gets a notification by email?

Know you have to check every single news item every day to check if someone has posted a messeage.

Later...

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

i know someone wrote a code snippet wich could be implemented in the related news files and does exactly what you want. Try a search in the forum.

Matthias

[G4]

UPDATE

I placed the following code in submit_comment.php. So far so good. If somebody clicks the submit button a mail will be sent...

But even if captha or a field is not filled in correctly you wil also get a mail. Does anybody have a solution?

Code:

<?php

// Setup email to send
$mail_subject = 'SUBJECT';
$mail_to = 'email@01.com' . ', ';
$mail_to .= 'email@02.com';
$mail_message = ''.
'Hello'.$display_name.',

There is a new comment '.WEBSITE_TITLE.'.

From: '.$title.'
Comment: '.$comment.'

Go to www.websitebaker.com';

// Try sending the email
(mail($mail_to, $mail_subject, $mail_message, "From: ".SERVER_EMAIL."\r\n". "Bcc: ". SERVER_EMAIL."\r\n")) 
?>

[kriskd]

Very nice.

I removed the second $mail_to as I only need it sent to one e-mail at the moment.  But, for some reason I got two copies of the message.  Is that meant to happen?

Also, is there a way for the message to tell you what news article the comment is coming from?  I'm developing a site that will have over 40 news articles with the potential for comments on all of them.

[kriskd]

As a follow up, I ended up having to set my comments to "Private" because all I was getting was explicit spam.  However, I just got an e-mail comment alert that was empty.

The empty comment did not show up in the admin panel, so it appears that somehow bots are able to send these e-mail alerts.  Does this sound logical or possible?

[tomhung]

can you package this up into either a patch or new version?
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[Argos]

This is an old topic, but there is a similar function available for WB 2.8 (maybe earlier versions also, not tested) at http://www.websitebaker2.org/forum/index.php/topic,19849.new.html