Send an email to author when I add to favorites his post

I have faced same problem.

Yeah, It would be nice. Maybe next releases support this feature ??

+1 This would be awesome to have. Maybe a hack could be fleshed out?

For example this is what I’m using to fire off an email to an author letting them know that their post was published.

//send email to author once entry is approved
function _notifyContributers($post_id) {
   $post = get_post($post_id);
   $author = get_userdata($post->post_author);

   $message = "
      Hi ".$author->display_name.",\n
      Congratulations, your entry - ".$post->post_title." - has just been published.
   ";
   wp_mail($author->user_email, "Your image is now live on Videogame-art.com", $message);
}
add_action('publish_portfolio', '_notifyContributers');

Ok so I was thinking, is there a way to combine the function I posted with the one below?

function postfavorited(){
	$postfavorited = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'wpfp_favorites', true);
	if($postfavorited != ''){
		echo $postfavorited .' Favorited'; }
		}
	}

Maybe remove the “if” statement? Might try this out.