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gnauck

2010-10-28, 08:26 #1

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Subject: notifications for new threads

I consider writing a XMPP plugin which notifies board admins of new created threads. Because I don't like RSS feeds and polling.
Could you give me small guide how to start with that?

Thanks,
Alex

Yves (Administrator) 2010-10-28, 19:28 #2

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I assume that you are familiar with UNB plugin development. You can take a look at the release archive to find some plugins, also some demo ones, and use one of these as a start. You'd then need to connect UNB hooks with your plugin functions to handle the event and perform some action on it. In this case, the "post.postthreadcreate" hook might be useful to you.

You can find all the docs on http://newsboard.unclassified.de/devel/docs/plugins.

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gnauck

2010-10-28, 23:05 #3

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I made some progress. I have 2 quetions.

how do I get the username of the creator of the thread from the thread object. GetUsername() is always empty.

how do I build the Url for the new thread?

Thanks,
Alex

gnauck

2010-10-29, 13:21 #4

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have the Url now with the following code:

$threadid = $thread->GetID();
$t_url = TrailingSlash(rc('home_url')) . UnbLink('@thread', 'id=' . $threadid, true);

when there is an easier way (like UnbMakePostLink) to get it let me now. Otherwise I vote for adding a new function for this in one of the next version. Only the username of the thread creator is missing then the 1st version of the plugin is done.

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Yves (Administrator) 2010-10-29, 19:02 #5

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Quote by gnauck:
how do I get the username of the creator of the thread from the thread object. GetUsername() is always empty.

That method is only used to store the user's provided name for guest posting. It's only supposed to be set, valid and used if the user ID is 0. You'll need to get the user ID and retrieve the user yourself to get its full record.

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2010-10-29, 19:04 #6

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Quote by Yves:
That method is only used to store the user's provided name for guest posting. It's only supposed to be set, valid and used if the user ID is 0. You'll need to get the user ID and retrieve the user yourself to get its full record.

do you have some example code for this?

Thanks,
Alex

Yves (Administrator) 2010-10-30, 13:49 #7

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$user = new IUser($userId);
$userName = $user->GetName();

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2010-10-30, 17:19 #8

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Thanks Yves. Works great now. I have attached the plugin.
It send notifications of new created threads to all board admins with have a JabberId in their profile. I hope its useful for other people as well.

Alex

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