notify users when new article published

Hi,

Is there any cb plugin that mails that allows you to mail all your users when a new article has been published?

Thanks,
Mark

nope, this is more like a joomla hack.

wow is there actually a way to do this without hacking core joomla codes?

Yes. You could write a script which periodically checks for changes in the database table which contains articles and then emails these changes to users. Hacking joomla core for this functionality would not be smart for many reasons.

mikko

so there's no way to "hook" the post event without hacking the joomla core. It would be cool if joomla posted some message when these events occur. Maybe I can look at mysql triggers too.

Thanks

The idea of usign a trigger instead of timed script is fundamentally bad.

Consider for example a situation when there is 1000 users in the database if you had a trigger which would email all these users, it would take some time to run. This would mean that it would take a considerable amount of time to show the next page to the suer who just posted a message. If the user decided to cancel the page request by navigating away, this can cause apache to stop executing the initial page request (=stop mailing)

Also it is not possible to send mail with SQL triggers.

mikko