Control Email Notifications

[noname4444]

Hello,

I'm wondering if it's possible to limit the e-mail notifications for a category to just the category owner?

Also, if so, would it be possible to set a group as a category owner so a small list of people get notified but not all admins?

With our setup, only certain people are responsible for answering questions from a given category. I want them to be e-mailed about it, but not receive e-mails from categories they are not responsible for.

Thanks!

[Thorsten]

Hi,

sadly, that's not possible right now. You could achieve this by using a user with an group email account.

bye
Thorsten

[noname4444]

Hello Thorsten, thank you for the reply and for providing such great support on the forums!

So lets say I have two categories. Right now, if someone posts a question to the first category, anyone who is an admin gets an e-mail that a question was posted.

Is there a way to have a user get an e-mail if the first category has a question posted, but not receive an e-mail if the second category has a question posted?

It sounds from your previous answer there is a way to do this but I can not figure it out.

Thanks for the help!

[Thorsten]

Hi,

you could do this by creating a mailing list (not part of phpMyFAQ). Then add a user with category rights and the e-mail address of the mailing list. Then use this user as category admin. That should work. The main admin will get all e-mails.

bye
Thorsten

[noname4444]

Ok, after a lot of debugging I finally figured out the issue. I tried what you said and it still would not work. So then I decided to dig into why it would not send a copy of the mail to the category owners.

After awhile I figured out which piece of code sent the e-mail when someone submitted the question. After some testing, I found that the code

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$userId = $cat->getCategoryUser($questionData['category_id']);

was always returning 1, regardless of the cateogory_id. I double checked the mySQL database and it had the correct User_ID for the category I was testing, which was 3.

So then I dug into the category code. Above in the "savequestion" section of the ajax code, the variable $cat is initialized to the PMF_Category class. It then calls the getAllCategories() function, which initializes the local variable $categories in the PMF_Categories class. Ok, good so far. Then I looked at the function getCategoryUser.

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    public function getCategoryUser($category_id)
    {
        return $this->categoryName[$category_id]['user_id'];
    }

$categoryName?? Where did this come from? I did some searches, and it is never initalized in the PMF_Category class, only $categories. So I replaced "$this->categoryName" with "$this->cateogires" in the getCategoryUser function and it worked, e-mails started sending properly.

Unfortunately, I'm scared I probably broke some functionality else where in the site. What is the proper way to fix this? Is my current fix ok?

[Thorsten]

Hi,

your fix is okay, I'll add it to 2.8.12. $this->categoryName will be initialized in getOrderedCategories().

bye
Thorsten