Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] Daily Reports

[Sylvie G. <sgr...@gm...>]

Hmmm
Will it not be easiest to buffer the mail in a table and to have a cron
that dump the mail.
in tikimail::send, foreach recipients , if recipient has a daily watch,
memorize the mail in the database.
My 2 cents
sylvie

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:10 +0200, Clemens John wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is my first post in the devel-list, so i'll introduce myself first:
> I'm Floh1111, 19 years old, still pupil/student, live in Germany and beside 
> tikiwiki, I'm developing for http://freifunk-ol.de/ and http://www.studip.de/.
> I learned programming by myself, so I'm maybe not the best programmer, but 
> I'll give my best.
> 
> Yesterday I posted this Topic (http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-
> view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=32757&topics_sort_mode=lastPost_desc&forumId=3) 
> in the development section of Tikiwiki-Forum and got quite friendly and 
> informative help by xavi.
> 
> I'm going to programm daily reports for watches for our Tikiwiki installation.
> 
> The basic idea is a class that is called by a cronjob an then fetches a list 
> of users who have enabled daily reports.
> Then the script checks, if the pages that the user is monitoring have changed 
> and if the change are between the last report and now. If this is true, the 
> page is added to the report.
> When this process is done, the report is send by email.
> 
> My ideas by now are:
> 
> 1. The feature should be (ofcourse) optional like User Watches is too.
> 2. Daily reports can only be send, if User Watches and Daily Reports are 
> enabled.
> 3. The user can chose if he gets an email always when something is changed 
> (like  now in tikiwiki), or if he gets a "daily report".
> 4. The User can choose when to get the report (Not exactly by minute, but by 
> half an our).
> 5 The user can choose if he gets a detailed report, or a short report.
> 6 The user can choose if he gets the report daily, weekly or monthly (But I'm 
> not shure if we really need this feature)
> 7. There must be a script that is called by a cronjob every half hour (see 
> point 4) to send the reports.
> 
> Before I can start developing, I have some questions in addition to my Ideas.
> Idea 1 and 2 are clear and I know where to set these options.
> On idea 3,4,5 and 6 I dont know where to put the settings in the design (maybe 
> add a section in tiki-user_watches.php?) and I don't know where to store the 
> settings in the DB. Can I just add a table like tiki_daily_reports?
> 
> For the report, I want to write a class, that is called by a cronjob and uses 
> Templates for the email-text.
> Where do I put the files in the tikiwiki file tree?
> 
> And last but not least I'd like do ask for commit access in the SVN repo, but 
> I think I'll do this in thr IRC later :)
> 
> Currently I'm reading the Hello World introduction but the questions I asked 
> are open till now.
> I hope someone of you can help and give basic instructions to me.
> 
> Bye
> Floh1111
> 
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