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  • elgordo
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    Notifications of New Postings by Email - Module Link to this post

    hi

    I've created a silverstripe module, my first, that enables email notification to one email address each time a posting is made anywhere in the forums. The use case here is for a group of forum administrators for a company to be notified under a group alias, e.g. forumadmin@yourcompany.com and then moderate with immediate effect instead of having to hunt through postings.

    The code can be found at

    http://github.com/gordonbanderson/SilverstripeForumModerationEmails

    It decorates the relevant Forum class in order to avoid having to make changes directly to the Forum module in a 'hacky' way

    Feedback welcome - as I said it is my first module

    Cheers

    Gordon

  • Willr
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    Re: Notifications of New Postings by Email - Module Link to this post

    Nice addition. I know a couple people have been looking for this.

    One of the features I have to implement in the module is a more robust moderation system so going to probably add forum email notifications, pending rss feeds etc but this module will help solve the issue in the short term!

  • SSadmin
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    Re: Notifications of New Postings by Email - Module Link to this post

    thanks. elg. Thats really good work.
    Email noticaiton was quite useful in this stage. will download and have a run your module 4 sure. keeping updating it

  • elgordo
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    Re: Notifications of New Postings by Email - Module Link to this post

    hi Willr

    Thanks for the comments. Email notification seemed the simplest option, and I based the module on the Embargo / Expiry one once I saw how the decorator pattern was used in that module.

    I guess the only problem with email notification regarding possible spam content is if the email itself is placed into a spam folder and ignored

    Regards

    Gordon

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