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frizzleb replied on Mar 27, 2011 at 10:21 am Permalink Reply

Are you referring to when a client makes a content update or blog post?

If so you could use the override system to make concrete5 send the emails when new content is published and some simple modifications to the mailing list add-on could meet your demands.

Please note this is just of the top of my head.

jlehmann replied on Mar 27, 2011 at 2:29 pm Permalink Reply

hi frizzleb,

thanks for getting back to me! The client wants to be able to have an e-mail sent out to the sites mailing-list, whenever they post news on their news page / blog, so that they can update the site AND notify their mailinglist "in one fell swoop", without having to copy-paste their news-article and then send it by mail afterwards.

Hope this clarifies it? :-)

Best regards,
Johan

frizzleb replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 2:46 am Permalink Reply

So effectively you need to export the blog page to html and then send that data in an email. Will think of the best solution and get back unless someone gets there first.

jlehmann replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 4:31 am Permalink Reply

Yup, that sounds right? Maybe one could couple this with the mailinglist add-on, in order to achieve both HTML and plaintext? Just thinking out loud here... :-)

frizzleb replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 5:23 am Permalink Reply

I belive i have an answer, i would recommend using page events e.g. on_page_version_approve. When this function is triggered you could gather the content from each block on the page using Areas.

If you would like some example code please ask.

Regards Frazer.

jlehmann replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 5:26 am Permalink Reply

Hi Frazer,

mkay...that went COMPLETELY over my head? *grins* Been using Concrete5 for about a week now, so yes: *please* show me some example code! :-)

Best regards,
Johan

frizzleb replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 5:31 am Permalink Reply

:) You will need to change some of the config first
If you go to the config/site.php file and add this line of code

define('ENABLE_APPLICATION_EVENTS', true);

This will make is possible to trigger the mailing list when the page is published.

jlehmann replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 5:36 am Permalink Reply

Done! - now what? I should probably buy the mailinglist add-on methinks? Do I do this from the site I'm building, or from concrete5.org?

frizzleb replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 5:39 am Permalink Reply

If i recall the next stage would be to setup a an event in the blog page type

Events::extendPageType('blog_page', 'on_page_version_approve');

blog_page should be replaced with the name of the page type you are using for the blog.

Inside the blog_page.php (or whatever the name is) add

function on_page_version_approve {
//Get data from page Areas and trigger mailing list model.
}

frizzleb replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 5:40 am Permalink Reply

Just to add there is a free mailing list addon, i think.

frizzleb replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 5:43 am Permalink Reply

If you want i could write a simple package to overide the blog page and then call the mailing list model if you would like.

I am not at home write now but could give it a shot when i get back.

jlehmann replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 5:53 am Permalink Reply

Frazer: that would be above and beyond! You sure you've got the time to do this? I mean, I've set aside 2 weeks to build this site, seeing as it's my first C5 project, and I figured I'd definitely need a good poke-around to familiarize myself with the tool, but I'm guessing you probably have other things to do...? ;-)

jlehmann replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 5:51 am Permalink Reply

Really? I just bought 5 licenses of Tony's Mailing List...doh! :-)

jlehmann replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 5:50 am Permalink Reply

OK - how do I "setup a an event in the blog page type"? Is this done from within C5, or through the backend via FTP?

frizzleb replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 6:03 am Permalink Reply

HAHAHAAHAH, it seems students have all the time in the world!

/* To setup an event add this also to config/site.php
Events::extendPageType('blog_page', 'on_page_version_approve');
/* Then add this to the page type file (This could be in a number of places, most of the time in the theme.
function on_page_version_approve {
}

frizzleb replied on Mar 30, 2011 at 6:04 am Permalink Reply

This needs to be done from the php backend