After publish node send email to someone

Question

Let's say i have a custom module in D7 , i want to add a feature to this .

the feature is : when a user publish a node send an email to someone .

   function sending_email_node_update($node){
    if (isset($node->original->status) && $node->original->status == 0 && $node->status == 1){
        drupal_mail('sending_email','email_action','[email protected]',language_default());
  }
}

function sending_mail_mail($key, &$message, $params) {
switch ($key){
    case 'sending_email_node_update':
        $message['subject'] = t('this is my action report');
        $message['body'][] = t('this is a reporting from sending email made by soheil') ;

        break;
}
}

Could you please help me how to do this ?

Answer 1

Why not just use Rules to do this. You'll have to watch a few tutorials to wrap your head around rules, but you won't have to re-invent the wheel or maintain any code.

If you need the custom module solution, check these out.

Check if node is being published: How can I detect when a node is changed from 'Published' to 'Unpublished'?

Then, use drupal_mail() to send your emails.

Answer 2

Why not using the Message stack? I think Rules is sometime is overrated:

1. To much work to set up the rule.
2. Why to use a large module like rule when you can use your own module and deal with the situation in 20 +- lines of code?
3. How would people become module developer and contribute code back to the community if they need rules to do simple action when a entity is updated?

And this how you can send email to a user when a node is updated in 4 simple steps:

1. Download the module Message and Message Notify and enable them.
2. Create a Message Type with the text your want to put in the mail.
3. Create your own module or just export the Message with Features (this could be your module).
4. Use the next gist in your module: https://gist.github.com/RoySegall/8369317

This is how that gist looks like:

/**
* Implements hook_node_update().
*/
function hook_node_load($node) {
  if ($node->original->status == $node->status) {
    return;
  }

  $message = message_create(MESSAGE_NAME, array('uid' => SOME_UID));
  message_notify_send_message($message);
}

The Message stack is great. Commerce Kickstart and Drupal Commons are using them, why not you to?

Answer 3

I have a solution for you, use hook_node_update something like this in your custom module run when the node be published

function MYMODULE_node_update($node){
  if (isset($node->original->status) && $node->original->status == 0 && $node->status == 1){

       put your code here to run after node publish

  }
}

Answer 4

while calling drupal_mail function the second argument is key and you are sending key as email_action and in you hook_mail you are checking for sending_email_node_update instead of email_action.. once you fix this you will be able to catch that mail just before being sent.. do your stuff there and done..

one more thing i would suggest you is check out drupal RULES module https://drupal.org/project/rules ... The Rules module allows site administrators to define conditionally executed actions based on occurring events..