Notification Handler

Tuesday 23 December 2003 3:44:18 am

Hi,
I am creating a notification handler. I have created the extensions. This the structure of the extension folder

extension/emailuserextension/notification/handler/emailuserextension
extension/emailuserextension/notification/handler/emailuserextension/emailuserextensionhandler.php
extension/emailuserextension/settings/notification.ini.append

I have changed the site.ini as

[ExtensionSettings]
ActiveExtensions[]=emailuserextension
ActiveExtensions[]=myextension

Do I need to change any other files to activate the extension? Plz Help.

Thanks & Regards
Mahesh

Tuesday 23 December 2003 5:13:00 am

Hi,

Thanks Paul for your answer. I have added

[NotificationEventHandlerSettings]
RepositoryDirectories[]=kernel/classes/notification/handler/;extension/emailuserextension/notification/handler
AvailableNotificationEventTypes[]=emailuserextension
in notification.ini.append in the settings/override directory.

To brief on what i am doing now, I am creating a notification handler which works on object publish events. I want to track when a new user is created and send him a registration mail.

I am creating users in the content section through admin interface. Each time when I create a new user, the register.tpl is not called. It calls user_group.tpl and then ezstring.tpl. Is it possible to call register.tpl after user_group.tpl?

I have created a emailuserhandler.php which is the handler. But, when I turn on debug and see, the notification handler I created is not called. Can anyone tell me how to call this handler.

Can the above mentioned can be done with events?

Thanx.

Thanks & Regards
Mahesh

Tuesday 23 December 2003 7:13:20 am

Hi,
I have looked at kernel/classes/notification/eznotificationeventfilter.php. Maybe its coming from $repositoryDirectories, which we have mentioned in settings/override/notification.ini.append file.
RepositoryDirectories[]=kernel/classes/notification/handler/;extension/emailuserextension/notification/handler.

I have moved the above in settings/notification.ini.

Its not searching the handler now. But, I get an error message like this if I put them in AvailableNotificationEventTypes. Maybe you are right "However, i believe the eZ extension system doesn't currently 'see' notification handlers."

But have a look at /kernel/classes/notification/handler/. This contains the default notification handlers ezcollaborationnotification, ezgeneraldigest, ezsubtree. I have created a new directory here and put the handler here. But, its not calling it now also. If you notic that default handler directories contain another php file. Do I need to create a similar file for my handler to make it active?

Mahesh

Thanks & Regards
Mahesh

Wednesday 24 December 2003 5:25:23 am

Hi Paul,

I tested the output from kernel/classes/notification/eznotificationeventfilter.php
It does not refer to the handler. It produces the following error.

Error: eZNotificationEventFilter::loadHandler() Dec 24 2003 05:06:23
Notification handler does not exist: $handlerString

One more strange thing :)
If i change the handler directory from kernel/notification... to extensions then I get four lines of the above error message.
So, I guess in both cases it is not calling the handler.

Mahesh

Thanks & Regards
Mahesh

Wednesday 24 December 2003 6:07:34 am

Hi Paul,

I have tested with the changed notification.ini file. But, it's again the same problem. It just doesnt seems to be recognizing another notification. There is an extra notification.ini.append in extension/emailuserextension/settings/notification.ini.append. I have removed that file since we have specified them in the main notification.ini. Is this required?

Mahesh

Thanks & Regards
Mahesh

Thursday 25 December 2003 8:46:27 pm

Hi Paul,
I debugged the PHP code. I had actually made a mistake in specifying the Repository Directories. Now it's calling the handler.
Thanks.

Thanks & Regards
Mahesh