Email notification of new comments

Thank you LFrank and thank you mindless!! It works!!!! I'll tell you what I did so others may learn from my stupidity.

First mistake: Once I found the right file, I was copying ALL the code from the grey box above into the AddComments.inc file. I am so unfamiliar with php that I couldn't bring myself to look at the code to see what I was doing. This was giving me duplicates of some code and an error message.

Second mistake: Even though I was running an older version of Gallery, I inserted code that was made for the newer version. I thought it was close enough so what the hell.

Third mistake: I upgraded my version of Gallery but since I had made modifications to the old AddComment.inc file (and they looked close enough to me) I just copied over my old AddComment.inc. mindless pointed out that $red->isError() is 2.0.x code. But I had already overwritten my new AddComment.inc file thinking it was the same as the old.

Fourth mistake: Making changes to an original of a file, not the copy.

I was afraid if I uninstalled the module and then reinstalled it, all my old comments would be lost. So I went to the DL page, downloaded the entire module, found the AddComment.inc file and uploaded only that. And it works like a charm.

Thank you to mindless and especially LFrank for your incredible patience with my mind blowing ignorance. I couldn't have done it without you.

Great thread, thanks! I just added in and tested the code, and it seems to work fine.

One question, though - it only detects new comments, not new images, right? I'm more concerned about what people post to the site (e.g. inappropriate images), not so much the comments (I actually had comments disabled, and only enabled them to test this out).

Is there any way to tweak this to easily catch the "new image added" events instead? (Sorry, I'm not versed in php, so the answer doesn't really jump out at me from looking at the code).

Thanks!
Mark

Captenaj, the "ret" was changed to the new format (without the wrap...) - did you miss to attach your file, just wanted to look into it ...

Gallery version = 2.2-svn core 1.1.16
PHP version = 5.1.6 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) DAV/2 PHP/5.1.6 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c
Database = mysql 5.1.11 beta-log,
Theme=PGlightbox,
Gallery-URL=http://lf-photodesign.de

Mark, the module I think is http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gallery-contrib/trunk/gallery2/modules/notification/
What version of G2 you're running - I don't know if it runs < 2.2

Gallery version = 2.2-svn core 1.1.16
PHP version = 5.1.6 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) DAV/2 PHP/5.1.6 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c
Database = mysql 5.1.11 beta-log,
Theme=PGlightbox,
Gallery-URL=http://lf-photodesign.de

Mark, feature freeze is at the doorsteps, I'm expecting a first release candidate very soon ... I had no issues with 2.2 from the very early start.

Gallery version = 2.2-svn core 1.1.16
PHP version = 5.1.6 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) DAV/2 PHP/5.1.6 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c
Database = mysql 5.1.11 beta-log,
Theme=PGlightbox,
Gallery-URL=http://lf-photodesign.de

sebmex,

with the latest SVN (or Nightly) of Gallery2.2, the notifiaction module works for comments, too (tested Oct. 04).
I would assume 2.2 as pre-requisite due to the core version needed.

Gallery version = 2.2-svn core 1.1.17
PHP version = 5.1.6 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) DAV/2 PHP/5.1.6 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c
Database = mysql 5.1.11 beta-log,
Theme=PGlightbox,
Gallery-URL=http://lf-photodesign.de

hey guys,
I got lost between all the codes here...
I want to receive an email notification when a new comment is submitted. is it possible? if it is, what is the code and where do I put it?
thanks

Ok I downloaded individual files into a directory on my machine.
Then i copied the directory into the gallery/modules directory.
Now when i try to install the module from SiteAdmin, i see the following message

Status: Incompatible Module (Inactive)
Notification 0.9.0
Allow users to be notified of events by subscription.
Incompatible module!
Core API Required: 7.10 (available: 7.3)
Module API Required: 3.1 (available: 3.0)

I guess there's something to do with the version of gallery. I'm using:

Gallery version: 2.1.2
PHP version: 5.1.4 apache2handler
Webserver: Apache/2.0.52 (Win32) PHP/5.1.4
Database: mysql 5.0.22-community-nt
Toolkits: ImageMagick, Gd
Operating system: Windows NT AMITSW 5.0 build 2195
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

- Nishant

Thanks mindless. Is there a way i can modify it partially to get it working with my system.
If yes, what needs to be modified?
- Nishant

I downloaded the SVN version and installed the notification module. I selected "watch" for one of the albums.
But now when i add any photo or post comment to the watched album, the process does not complete and i get a blank page after submit. However, i do get an email saying that the photo was uploaded or a comment was posted. But no photo/comment is added to the album. How do i get rid of this.

Second Question: If i want to modify this module to work with Gallery 2.1.2, what changes should i consider in the code?

- Nishant

I'm trying to work with the notification module on G2.2 SVN version. But there's a small problem that i'd like to fix. When I try to "Watch" an album, i get a available notification methods list (which is email only as of now) along with the option to subscribe to the email method on New Item . i.e
"Get notified any time a new item (album, photo, etc) is added" with a checkbox to subscribe.

However, when i try the same thing for a Photo Item, I get only the method list
I don't get the option to subscribe to the email method on "New Item"

What my be wrong and what do i need to fix in the code?

Also, when can we see a final release of the module?

Thanks.

- Nishant

Does anyone have a working version with gallery 2.2 or later ?

If you upgrade to the current svn (R2.3) or nightly snapshot, the new improved version of notifications is available.

There are a couple of features that are available in the latest version of Gallery2 available from svn. http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery:Using_Subversion

Akismet spam filter is enabled and the notification module has been rewritten and integrated into the Gallery2 base

I am not sure what this means. How can I get this to work? Is it an update? A patch?

I'm actually trying to use Gallery as a "online silent auction" tool for a nonprofit.
http://berkshirefringegala.peterwise.net
Any way to notify either all of the users who have commented on an individual item, or just the most recent commenter (not the current user). I'm using the comments module as a rudimentary "bidding" system, and I want people to be automatically notified when they have been "outbid" (i.e. another comment added) on a particular item.

Seems like this would be possible with some of the code on this thread. Is there a variation on this

that would do the trick?

Again, it's not the active user or the item owner i'm interested in pulling up, but either the most recent item commenter or all item commenters.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi,

I have added the following code to addcomment.inc and it works Great!! Thank you for posting the code.

* added eMail Notification based on MRiedl's modification */
list ($ret, $item) = GalleryCoreApi::loadEntitiesById($itemId);
if ($ret) {
return array($ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__), null);
}

list ($ret, $owner) = GalleryCoreApi::loadEntitiesById($item->getOwnerId());
if ($ret) {
return array($ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__), null);
}
$ownerName = $owner->getFullName();
$ownerEMail = $owner->getEmail();

list ($ret, $user) = GalleryCoreApi::loadEntitiesById($gallery->getActiveUserId());
if ($ret) {
return array($ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__), null);
}
$userName = $user->getFullName();

$emailSubj = 'GALLERY2 - New picture comment added';
$emailContent = 'Greetings '.$ownerName.'!'."\n\n".
'New comment from user: '.$userName." (".GalleryUtilities::getRemoteHostAddress().") \n".
'Subject: '.$form['subject']."\n".
'Comment: '.$form['comment']."\n".
'URL: http://www.gallery2.clearvuecyclones.com/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId='.$itemId."\n\n".
'[this is an automatic mail, generated by Gallery !]';
$from = 'admin@clearvuecyclones.com';
mail("admin@clearvuecyclones.com",$emailSubj,$emailContent, "From: $from\nX-Mailer: PHP/ . $phpversion()", "-f $from");
mail("$ownerEMail",$emailSubj,$emailContent, "From: $from\nX-Mailer: PHP/ . $phpversion()", "-f $from");

I am curiuos now if a button could be added in the comment form check here if you wish to receive email when a new comment is added and then everyone that is subscribed can then get an email too instead of just me and the owner?

Thanks,

Matt

Hi there

I also try to run a non-profit private auction tool. But I can't get the notification to all the users working. Did you ever get a solution for your 'problem' If so, can you explain to me (I'm a complete newbe in programming)

Thx

Herman

Gallery versie = 2.3 core 1.3.0
API = Core 7.54, Module 3.9, Thema 2.6, Embed 1.5
PHP versie = 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.3 cgi-fcgi
Web server = Apache/2.2.4 (Ubuntu) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e
Database = mysqli 5.0.38-Ubuntu_0ubuntu1.4-log, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = Ffmpeg, LinkItemToolkit, Gd

hello. can anyone help me on this??
The system should notify the customer of new vehicles in the showroom regularly via his email. The customer should also be able to make car loan application and duty free application more easily via this online system.

thank you