hypejunction/notifications_html_handler

Notification Editor for Elgg

Notification HTML Handler for Elgg

, _(*1)

Features

• Leverages Zend_Mail (email library used in core) to send out HTML emails
• Allows filtering/formatting instant notifications
• Allows to configure email transports (Sendmail, SMTP, File Transport)
• Allows to send file attachments
• Inlines CSS styles for improved email client experience
• Microdata support

Notes

• You can disable outgoing email by switching to File Transport in plugin settings, this will instead write email as txt files to the filestore under /notifications_log/zend/, _(*2)

• Sample SMTP config for GMail To use GMail as your SMTP relay, you will likely need to Allow less secure apps: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en, _(*3)

  Host: smtp.gmail.com Port: 587 Secure Connection: TLS Auth: SMTP with AUTH LOGIN Username: xxxx@gmail.com Password: xxxx, _(*4)

Conflicts

This plugin will conflict with any other plugin that subscribes to "send","notification:email" hook, _(*5)

Developer Notes

• 'format','notification' hook can be used to format an instance of \Elgg\Notifications\Notification before it is passed on to the email transport. That also allows wrapping the message into an HTML shell., _(*6)

• To add attachments to your email, add an array of ElggFile objects to notification parameters:, _(*7)

notify_user($to, $from, $subject, $body, array(
    'attachments' => array(
        $file1, $file2,
    )
));