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comments_notify_tagged()

Description

Notify anyone tagged when a new comment is posted

Parameters

ColumnTypeDefaultDescription
$comment string The comment body
$from_user integer Who posted the comment
$resource integer null If commenting on a resource, the resource ID
$collection integer null If commenting on a collection, the collection ID

Return

void

Location

include/comment_functions.php lines 492 to 520

Definition

 
function comments_notify_tagged($comment, $from_user, $resource = null, $collection = null)
{
    // Find tagged users.
    $success = preg_match_all("/@.*? /", $comment . " ", $tagged, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
    if (!$success) {
        return true;
    } // Nothing to do, return out.
    foreach ($tagged[0] as $tag) {
        $tag = substr($tag, 1);
        $tag = trim($tag); // Get just the username.
        $user = get_user_by_username($tag); // Find the matching user ID
        // No match but there's an underscore? Try replacing the underscore with a space and search again. Spaces are swapped to underscores when tagging.
        if ($user === false) {
            $user = get_user_by_username(str_replace("_", " ", $tag));
        }

        if ($user > 0) {
            // Notify them.

            // Build a URL based on whether this is a resource or collection
            global $baseurl,$userref,$lang;
            $url = $baseurl . "/?" . (is_null($resource) ? "c" : "r") . "=" . (is_null($resource) ? $collection : $resource);

            // Send the message.
            message_add(array($user), $lang["tagged_notification"] . " " . $comment, $url, $userref);
        }
    }
    return true;
}

This article was last updated 11th February 2025 19:05 Europe/London time based on the source file dated 20th January 2025 16:40 Europe/London time.