XF 2 Will pay to have the email and alert notification system explained. No work required, two emails - payment in Paypal or Crypto

[entelechy]

Looking for anyone that can explain the system that sends email and alerts to users when a new thread is created in a forum they're watching.

I've build a script that adds new threads, but the notifications aren't being generated. One or two emails, will pay $10 for information about the XF classes used to send emails and alerts - only need to know which code controls this, I'll figure out the rest. Required today.

 

[marquisite]

How are you creating these threads? If you check out the thread creator service (XF\Service\Thread\Creator.php), at the very bottom of this file is a "sendNotifications()" function that calls a post notifer service (XF\Service\Post\Notifer.php). Does your script call the Notifer at some point?

 

[entelechy]

A python script that connects to the database and bypasses the XF system to directly add new threads/posts. The problem is that there's functionality like this which still needs to be accessed, which isn't triggered when I'm just adding db entries.

I'll check out Creator.php and Notifier.php. Thanks

 

[JulianD]

I'd recommend you to simply use the XenForo API instead of writing directly to the database. There's a lot going on behind the scenes and you will probably end up with a inconsistent database.

 

[entelechy]

Yeah I was thinking this as well tbh, but the thing is that the posts I'm creating are being gathered using a pythons script, so extending that to then post in the forums is relatively straight forward. The alternative would be if I can access the XF system from a python script and send the data directly to a XF class to post it, but afaik that's not possible.

To post directly into the sql db I can use a module, but there's no python module to interact with XF. Do you know of another way to directly interact with XF from a script in the server?

 

[JulianD]

Yeah I was thinking this as well tbh, but the thing is that the posts I'm creating are being gathered using a pythons script, so extending that to then post in the forums is relatively straight forward. The alternative would be if I can access the XF system from a python script and send the data directly to a XF class to post it, but afaik that's not possible.

To post directly into the sql db I can use a module, but there's no python module to interact with XF. Do you know of another way to directly interact with XF from a script in the server?

The only way would be if your create a PHP script to load the XF environment and do the task you need and then you would call it from your Phyton script.