Send another e-mail or use a hook after new link

Not at this time, but I could add an action hook for this tonight quickly (Eastern Daylight Time). Stay tuned.

That would be nice ?? I can think of many uses for that:
1) Post to Buffer
2) Add points to the user for contributing, etc..

Is it possible to access these variables with the action hook:
– URL
– Title
– Description
– User_ID or User meta
I am new to hooks but I guess if we could fetch the user variable or user meta that would be great, but hopefully this is do-able and not too much to ask :).

Many thanks for your very quick response!

I will pass along all of the link data as an array to the hook. For the user ID, you can get the current user ID yourself using wp_get_current_user.

Yannick

Excellent! =)

I just pushed out a new version of Link Library to the WordPress repository to add this feature. The names of the new action hooks are:

link_library_approval_email and link_library_rejection_email

Both of them will receive two parameters, $linkdata and $linkextradata. Each of these parameters are arrays.

When registering your own action hook, make sure to specify a priority and the argument parameter as 2 to get both arguments back. You will find most information that you are looking for under the linkdata array, in fields called link_name, link_url and link_description.

I hope this allows you to implement your desired functionality. Let me know if you have any trouble implementing your own action callbacks.

Please consider donating to support this plugin’s development.

Good work Yannick! Will test it and let you know!
I’ve donated in the past and certainly will do so again :).

Thanks!

Hi Yannick,

Could you help me understand how I would get a certain value like link_name? I am mostly used to using get_post_meta and I am guessing in this case I have to somehow do something like:

$link_title = $linkdata->link_name;

Or is this completely wrong? I thought I’d test a few ideas before paying someone to do it lol.

Thanks!

Actually, these are arrays of values, so you would need to say $linkdata[‘link_name’] to get the link name. Then, a good trick to know all of the values that are inside of an array is to do:

var_dump( $linkdata );
die();

This will display the contents of the array with all of its keys, and stop everything else that it’s doing.

The $linkdata->link_name would be in $linkdata was an object.

Thanks a lot Yannick.

For other beginners interested, I ended up using this code to publish links to Buffer:

function educadme_links_to_buffer( $linkdata ) {
		$buffer_email = "[email protected]";

		$get_link_title = $linkdata['link_name'];
		$get_link = $linkdata['link_url'];;

		$buffer_commands = "
		@p ArabicResearch \r\n
		@link $get_link
		";

		wp_mail( $buffer_email, $get_link_title, $buffer_commands );
	}
	add_action( 'link_library_approval_email', 'educadme_links_to_buffer', 10, 2 );

I plan to also extend it to give the user a badge/exp points on link acceptance.

By the way Yannick,

I noticed something but I wasn’t sure if it is intended. If I require login to submit a link through Link Library, it fetches the username of the submitter but not their e-mail address. Therefore, they can’t be notified and the above action won’t work.

Is that behaviour intended?

Thanks again! donating now!

It was intended behaviour only to store the login name when logged in. That being said, I can see how it would make sense to store the submitter name and e-mail if the user is logged in automatically. I will work to address that soon, likely this evening or tomorrow evening (Canadian Eastern time).

Thank you for your support of this plugin’s development.

Take your time ?? I am just glad I could contribute somehow to the development of the plugin even if just by throwing ideas!

Good luck with your work!

User e-mail and name will automatically be pre-filled if you display these fields in the form. These fields will also be present and hidden if user is logged in but the fields are not displayed.

Update to latest version for this new functionality.

Awesome! Thanks Yannick!

Hello, I thought I’d share my final code for others to use if desired. Basically this code awards a BadgeOS badge on approval and send an e-mail to buffer with the links details.

Because I want to encourage users to submit links, I use this code to publish tweets that include their twitter user name. a ‘twitter’ usermeta is used so it needs to be added there. If it’s not there, the url & its title will be published without the name of the submitter.

I hope this helps!

function educadme_links_to_buffer( $linkdata, $linkextradata ) {
		$buffer_email = "[email protected]";

		// General Link Info
		$get_link_title = $linkdata['link_name'];
		$get_link = $linkdata['link_url'];

		// Dynamic Conditions of Submitter
		// User Login of the submitter
		$submitter = $linkextradata['link_submitter'];
		// Get User Object
		$user = get_user_by( 'login', $submitter );
		// Get User ID
		$user_id = $user->ID;

		// Award a badge to the user for Link Approval
		if (function_exists('badgeos_maybe_award_achievement_to_user')) {
			badgeos_maybe_award_achievement_to_user( '63057', $user_id );
		}

		// Gets User Meta Twitter for Submitter
		$submitter_user_twitter = get_user_meta($user_id, 'twitter', true);

		if (isset($submitter_user_twitter)){
		   $social_title =New Link: $get_link_title by @$submitter_user_twitter";
		} else {
		   $social_title =New Link: $get_link_title";
		} 

		// Output Buffer Commands
		$buffer_commands = "
		@p YourBufferChannel \r\n
		@link $get_link
		";

		wp_mail( $buffer_email, $social_title, $buffer_commands );
	}
	add_action( 'link_library_approval_email', 'educadme_links_to_buffer', 10, 2 );