Sending Notification Messages

Question

My team is working on a simple message notification using the message stack but a bit tricky to implement.

The goal is when a user is subscribed to content, a notification message will be delivered to the user's email address.

We are trying to follow this steps, doing the configuration in the browser. But the last step, we think should be added manually in a certain file as mentioned in this comment.

Questions:

• Where should I add the code to properly send the message into email?
• Is there a need to create a custom module to achieve it?

Answer 1

Hooks go in the .module file, the only hooks that can also work in the .theme file are preprocess and alter hooks.

So if you want the message to be sent when a node is created or updated, use hook_ENTITY_TYPE_presave.

Create a custom module, lets call it "Send Message"

send_message.info.yml

name: 'Send Message'
description: 'Sends the message when a node of Content type Article is created or updated.'
core: 8.x
package: Message
dependencies:
  - message
type: module

send_message.module

<?php

use Drupal\node\NodeInterface;
use Drupal\message\Entity\Message;

/*
 * Implements hook_ENTITY_TYPE_presave()
 */

function send_message_node_presave(NodeInterface $node) {

   if ($node->getType() == 'article') { // checks if content type is article
      $message = Message::create(['template' => 'foo_message_type', 'uid' => $node->getOwnerId()]);
      $message->set('field_node_ref', $node);
      $message->save();
      $notifier = \Drupal::service('message_notify.sender');
      $notifier->send($message);
   }

}