Getting notifications from ezpublish

Sunday 26 September 2010 7:00:41 am

Hello to all,

I am trying to run notifications at a site, I have added myself to the notification page (node 2) trying to be notified each time anything is published.

Copied the cronjobs.ini from settings (without modification) to my “siteaccess/esl” and “override” (both) folders at settings as cronjobs.append.php hoping the site will notify me but it doesn’t work at all.

Any clues, must have something wrong!

thanks!

Diseño Web Cuba
Web Design Cuba
www.elfosdesign.com

Monday 27 September 2010 9:28:55 pm

Hello,

Using ez 4.3

I cannot run notifications for my newly installed site.

Usually this is an “out of the box issue”, I really don´t know if I have to configure .ini files like notifications.ini or cronjobs.ini for this purpose.

I have the following code:

<form method="post" action={"content/action/"|ezurl}>

<!--input class="forum-new-topic button" type="submit" value="{'New topic'|i18n( 'design/ezwebin/full/forum' )}" /-->

<input value="{$node.node_id}" />

<input value="{$node.contentobject_id}" />

<input value="{ezini( 'RegionalSettings', 'ContentObjectLocale', 'site.ini')}" />

<input class="button" name="ActionAddToNotification" value="Notificame por e-mail{*'Keep me updated'|i18n( 'design/ezwebin/full/forum' )*}" />

<input value="{$node.node_id}" />

<input value="forum_topic" />

</form>

I would like to add node 2 (the whole site) as the beginning of the tree I need to notify everyone that hits the notification button. The form is located at node 378, I wonder if I have to change {$node.node_id} to “2” at every instance in the form.

thanks!

Diseño Web Cuba
Web Design Cuba
www.elfosdesign.com

Tuesday 28 September 2010 5:14:48 am

Hi,

Something must be wrong or missing at lines:

Transport=SMTP
TransportServer=localhost
TransportUser=
TransportPassword=

Diseño Web Cuba
Web Design Cuba
www.elfosdesign.com

Tuesday 28 September 2010 8:15:58 am

Thanks Ok Ill be back!

Diseño Web Cuba
Web Design Cuba
www.elfosdesign.com

Wednesday 29 September 2010 2:54:18 pm

Hy Jorge,

I'm glad you got mail working :-)

Theroretically your form should work too. Please find below an example form I used. This is kinda hackish but it should implement the minimum amount of code.

{def $nodo=2
     $nodocontentobject=65}
<form method="post" action={"content/action/"|ezurl}>
    <input type="hidden" name="ContentNodeID" value="{$nodo}" />
    <input type="hidden" name="ContentObjectID" value="{$nodocontentobject}" />
    <input type="hidden" name="ContentLanguageCode" value="{ezini( 'RegionalSettings', 'ContentObjectLocale', 'site.ini')}" /> 
    <input class="button" type="submit" name="ActionAddToNotification" value="{'Keep me updated'|i18n( 'design/ezwebin/full/forum' )}" /> 
    <input type="hidden" name="NodeID" value="{$nodo}" />
</form>

This is what is happening in the background when submitting this form:

First, the kernel-module "content/action" is called. You can find its code in "kernel/content/action.php".
This action.php tries to match several POST variables/keys in order to determine what to to.

In your case it matches the following statement:

else if ( $http->hasPostVariable( "ActionAddToNotification" ) )
{
    $nodeID = $http->postVariable( 'ContentNodeID' );
    $module->redirectTo( 'notification/addtonotification/' . $nodeID . '/' );
    return;
}

You see, it's looking for the POST variable "ActionAddToNotification" which is sent. Then all it does is to redirect to another module which has the correct logic to handle notification requests: "/notfication/addtonotification". It also appends the nodeID of the node you would like to add to your notification list. kinda + hopefully. (What exactly is not working in your case? How 'far' can you go?)

So, now lets look at the code for the notfication module. You can find it at "kernel/notification/addtonotification.php". All code here is more or less straight forward. The important thing is to check, if the actual user is logged in and if the supplied url-nodeid-argument is indeed a valid ezpublish node id and it also checks, if the current logged in user has READ-access to this node.

If everything is ok, the nodeID / node should have been added to the users notfication list. Easy hugh?

But now dont ask me, why in your case nothin happens. Please take a look at your ezpublish logfiles. You can find them in var/log. Go though the last few lines of error.log, warning.log and/or notice.log. My guess is, that somewhere exists an error which prevents the above described behaviour.

As always: have you cleared your cache after modifiying the template? I'm not the great template guy, more the extension and hacking freak. So with template stuff I'm not directly the right one to ask ;-)

Hope you can find it out. cheers,

chris

EDIT: wow. This was the most esthetically post I've every written so far. Its syntax coloring and text-flow is mind blowing ;-)

Hannover, Germany
eZ-Certified http://auth.ez.no/certification/verify/395613

Sunday 03 October 2010 3:52:29 am

First, your notification-subscription form still has no valid fields.You are using:

<input type="hidden" value="{$nodocontentobject}" />

Html-forms need a name for their value like this:

<input type="hidden" name="ContentObjectID" value="{$nodocontentobject}" />

Second, the errormessage

The nodeID parameter was empty, user ID:14

may be a result of either an empty nodeID parameter as stated or, which is more and more the case, eZPublish could not fetch a node-object by the supplied $nodeID. So please verify the form-post values for NodeID and ContentObjectID. eZPublish distincts between nodeid and contentobjectid. Those are different ids and they have nothing in common when it comes to such php-calls.

Make sure, the supplied nodeID really does exist after fixing the form.Try to call the following url in your browser manually:

/notification/addtonotification/2

and see what happens. You may also replace "2" with your nodeId you wish to subscribe. This is just a test to see that the supplied url-parameter nodeID does exist. If this url throws errors, you do not have the nodeID in your database or do not have the permissions to access this node.

good luck,chris

Hannover, Germany
eZ-Certified http://auth.ez.no/certification/verify/395613