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Mr Papa
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Feb 11, 2009 - 5:27 pm

yes, thats the only change for notifications to optionally go to mods too...

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Oliver
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Feb 11, 2009 - 10:57 pm

Thank you!

Of course I always have something else up my sleave 🙂

So I also thought of connected the above with another criteria which stems from a new (custom) user pfoile field I added to allow a moderator to opt-in/out of receiving these emails.

...in addition I would have to add

AND profile_customfield = true

, is this possible?

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 12, 2009 - 12:48 am

You shouldn't need this I believe.
The notification to moderators should be triggered by their setting on the Manage Admins > Admin Options tab...
At least that is my understanding...

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Oliver
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Feb 12, 2009 - 1:08 am

hi andy!

right, but I don't want to make moderators admins, hence I can't use that setting (I think) - or could I possibly make them admins with "no capabilities" e.g. to ?

here is what I did and the code piece that works (changes are highlighted). the only drawback is, that it requires the custom field to be the first custom field since it's hardcoded below (I'm sure this could be done a tad more elegant to make it dynamic).

with this change, moderators can now opt-in via their profile.

$admins_email = '';
### oliver:
### $admins = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT user_id, admin_options FROM ".SFMEMBERS." WHERE admin = 1");
$admins = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT user_id, admin_options FROM ".SFMEMBERS." WHERE admin = 1 OR moderator = 1");

if ($admins)
{
   foreach ($admins as $admin)
   {
       if ($admin->user_id != $newpost['userid'])
       {
           $admin_opts = unserialize($admin->admin_options);
           ###oliver: 2 lines below changed
           $mod_opts = get_usermeta($admin->user_id, 'sfcustomfield0');    ### custom field hardcoded

           if ($admin_opts['sfnotify'] || $mod_opts=='on')

           {
               $email = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT user_email FROM ".SFUSERS." WHERE ID = $admin->user_id");
               if ($admins_email != '') $admins_email .= ', ';
               $admins_email .= $email;
           }
       }
   }
}

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 12, 2009 - 1:22 am

I didn't write this part and I can't easily test at the moment as my local codebase is in upheaval from a big restructuring. But as I understand it, your Moderator should be able to have access to the manage Admins personal options tab without having any of the actual Admin capabilities turned on. So they should be able to opt in for email notifications on that panel.

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Oliver
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Feb 12, 2009 - 1:45 am

you're right! I somehow managed to overlook that part...this makes more sense, I'll see if I can get it to work - if it does, it'd of course be better than changing core code.

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Oliver
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Feb 12, 2009 - 1:54 am

ok..this didn't work so well, because admins must at least have 1 capability in order to keep the admin status and being able to use the special admin features (admin bar, notifications).

so i may have to go with my code change for the time being...

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 12, 2009 - 2:27 am

Ah. it may be that is a 4.1 change... I will check it out.

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Mr Papa
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Feb 12, 2009 - 6:37 am

you do not have to be an admin to have access to the admin/moderator options (noitce the name of the tab).  if a user is a moderator (in a usergroup with the moderator flag checked), the user will be shown the tab with the options in the wp admin.   dont confuse the individual admin/moderator options with the global admin options.  just verified its working properly.

perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are trying to do...

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Oliver
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Feb 12, 2009 - 9:11 am

You're right.

I've looked at the WP profile/admin pages several times and I swear I did not see the SF menu/tab.

So this will do of course and feel free to remove the above code snippet to not confuse anyone (even though it worked nicely 😉

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