[development] Best way to let a user notify other users about a new node they created?

Nabil Alsharif nabil at gobrighttree.com
Mon Mar 30 14:04:22 UTC 2009


If you want to do it yourself you could use hook_nodeapi to capture when a user creates a node. How you want to notify the user is up to you.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:48:41AM -0500, John Fiala wrote:
> You might start with the Actions (http://drupal.org/project/actions)
> module - it's a backport of what's in Drupal 6, and I know that allows
> you to send out emails at certain times, although I"m not sure how
> well it will work for 'sending an email to everyone on your site' -
> are you sure you want to hit your users with that much email?
> 
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Brad Flora <bradflora at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, list,
> >
> > I'm running a Drupal-powered social news site and want to give my users some
> > tools to promote their submissions.
> >
> > Right now I'm using the excellent Tweet module to let them tweet out their
> > stories after they go on the site, but I'd like to have something that would
> > notify other users on my site of the new node, preferably with an e-mail.
> 
> -- 
> John Fiala
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