Simplenews + sched_act
SaxxIng - August 14, 2007 - 13:29
| Project: | Simplenews |
| Version: | HEAD |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Is it possible in a future release to integrate the great simplenews module with the new scheduled_action (like sched_act) module?
I suppose (hope) that this isn't too complex (for whom mantain and know well simplenews and drupal code) but it finally offers a clean and efficiently method to obtain the necessary scheduled simplenews! (at the moment is only possible to schedule publish/unplush/sticky/unsticy etc a simplenews node, but not schedule sending).
However thanks a lot for this great module,
Saxx
#1
Thanks for the tip! The ability to schedule the submission of newsletters is on my wish list. I don't expect to implement this in a 5.x version will certainly have a look at it for 6.x developments.
#2
#219544: Actions to do scheduled sending might provide a solution
#3
I'm using Drupal 6.11 with Simplenews 6.x-1.0-rc6.
Maybe it's not the best solution, but to add scheduled sending (sending the letter only once), I use the Scheduler module to publish the newsletter-node at a specific date/time.
To send only published newsletters when the cron runs, I added one if-statement to simplenews.module:
<?php
function simplenews_get_spool($status, $nid = NULL, $vid = NULL, $limit = 999999) {
$messages = array();
$result = db_query_range("SELECT * FROM {simplenews_mail_spool} s WHERE s.status = %d ORDER BY s.timestamp ASC", $status, 0, $limit);
while ($data = db_fetch_array($result)) {
$node = node_load($data['nid']); //ADDED!
if ($node->status) { //ADDED!
$message = array();
foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
$message[$key] = $value;
}
$messages[$data['msid']] = $message;
} //ADDED!
}
return $messages;
}
?>