What is happening with this module?
a1tsal - July 23, 2009 - 12:16
| Project: | Comment Mail |
| Version: | 6.x-1.0-beta1 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
There was a 6.x beta seven months ago that "mostly works", plus a long-ago patch that has made it only into the dev version.
Are the remaining issues going to be fixed? Will there be an actual release? Has the project been abandoned?
I am using this module in 5.x and plan to upgrade to 6.x soon. Can anyone using this module in 6.x comment on their experience?
What alternative modules are people using (or what would you recommend)?
Thank you very much!
#1
Alternative to Comment Mail: Actions and Triggers (part of Drupal core -- Triggers will need to be installed on the Administer >> Site Building >> Modules page). You can define an action to send yourself an e-mail (Administer >> Site Configuration >> Actions) and tell the system to fire that message off when the comments are posted (a trigger - Administer >> Site Building >> Triggers).
#3
Thank you VERY much, this is really helpful!
Will this work for moderation of comments that have not yet been approved? Some other approaches to this issue only deal with published comments, and won't email notification of comments that haven't been approved.
(I realize that I could find out the answer by trying your recipe, but installing Drupal 6 just to check if this works would be a pretty big hassle, and if you can answer easily, that would be better! I am waiting to upgrade to D6 until all the D5 modules I use are ported, or have adequate replacements.)
Thanks again,
David
#4
Yes, it will work for moderating comments that have not been approved. You can create an action to send an e-mail when various comment states have been done (triggers). The default Comment Triggers include: After saving a new comment, After saving an updated comment, After deleting a comment, and When a comment is being viewed by an authenticated user. All four of these comment triggers will hook into your custom defined actions (i.e. Mail me (the action) when somebody posts a new comment (the trigger)). Also, this allows you to setup some basic workflows using core.
However, please note that Drupal 6 core does not have token support in it (it will be available to you in Drupal 7). The comment mail module uses its own type of tokens to help build the e-mails that you send out (e.g. @comment to put the comment in the mail message or @delete_url to print out the link to the delete comment page). If this is important to you, you may want to use the token module and this will allow you to add this type of functionality.
#5
Is there anyway to make the action happen with an un-authenticated user?