Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Email notification question.

[Dan F. <dfr...@cs...>]

Bill White wrote:

> I have not looked too hard at the Phpwiki source code, but I am
> interested in creating a plugin.  I want to be able to put a plugin
> something like this:
>   <?plugin EmailNotification ?>
> on a page, and have appear there:
>   o A list, perhaps a combo box, of the people who are currently
>     scheduled for email notification when the page changes, and
>   o A button which will add the currently signed in user to the
>     list.
> From my 10 minute perusal of the code it was not clear to me how
> to get the first list, or how to accomplish the second task.  If
> I had those two bits of data, I think it would be trivial to code
> up the rest.  So, does anybody have a suggestion?


This seems like a good idea, not only for a page, but more likely for 
part of a theme template, like the header or navbar. This would be like 
Wikipedia's "Watch this page."

I don't know much about answering your question, tho. Here's what I do know:

- The code that generates the notifications is in WikiDB, in 
getPageChangeEmails(), sendPageChangeNotification().

- A perusal of the code shows that there is a global setting 'notify' 
that is a list of users and what pages they should be notified of. This 
global setting is stored in a page called 'global_data' (see WikiDB::get()).

- I believe this setting is also stored by the UserPreferences plugin in 
the pagedata for the user. UserPreferences seems to call 
$user->setPreferences().

So, perhaps you can use $user->setPreferences() to set the 'notify' 
preference to include a page. Try it and see. Look at the DB and see if 
the pagedata for the user and 'global_data' are properly mutated.

Dan