Comment Notification

[WineMan]

Currently, Flatpress will send the admin an email notification of any comment posted to any of the blog posts.

I wanted to send an email notification to any subscriber of my blog, and I did that by changing the code in the comments.php file to the following. This starts at line 228 and ends at line 249 in my comments.php file. I am referring to the comments.php file in the root of the flatpress. Please note that I have set up a Subscribe to my blog module that inserts email addresses to a data.txt file in a folder called newsletter. The text file is set up as follows:
myemail@email.com,youremail@email.com,hisemail@email.com, etc. Your last email address in the text file should end with a comma (,)

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//$email_to = "you@email.com";
				$email_subject = "Comment Submission";
				$headers = "From: Your Blog Title <yourfrom@email.com>\n" . 
				"Reply-To: Blogmaster <replyto@email.com>\n" . 
				"MIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1";
				$email_message = "$mail";
				$emails = file('newsletter/data.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
				$x = 1;
				foreach ($emails as $email) {
					$mail_sent = @mail($email, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
					//if($mail_sent) {
						//echo "Email sent to all subscribers";
					//} else {
						//echo "Email not sent";
					//}
					
					//echo $mail_sent ? $x . ', ' : '0, ';
					
					$x++;
				}
				//@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message);
			}

Obviously, you need to change the $headers and Reply-To, information to match your information. I have also commented out that portion of the comments.php file that is not used. Hope this helps in case you want to use this option.

[Arvid]

Nice one!

The only downside is: comments.php will be overwritten with the next FlatPress update, so you'll have to keep this change in mind and re-add the code afterwards.

All the best,
Arvid

[WineMan]

Thanks for the heads up...when can we expect the next version to be released?

[Arvid]

I wrote a few words on the current development status on the project blog: https://www.flatpress.org/2023/10/29/lo ... nt-status/

All the best,
Arvid