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email_resource()

Parameters

ColumnTypeDefaultDescription
$resource
$resourcename
$fromusername
$userlist
$message
$access -1
$expires ""
$sharepwd ""
$useremail ""
$from_name ""
$cc ""
$list_recipients false
$open_internal_access false
$useraccess 2
$group ""

Location

include/resource_functions.php lines 2667 to 2800

Definition

 
function email_resource($resource$resourcename$fromusername$userlist$message$access = -1$expires ""$sharepwd ""$useremail ""$from_name ""$cc ""$list_recipients false$open_internal_access false$useraccess 2$group "")
{
    
# Attempt to resolve all users in the string $userlist to user references.

    
global $baseurl,$email_from,$applicationname,$lang,$userref,$usergroup;

    if (
$useremail == "") {
        
$useremail $email_from;
    }
    if (
$group == "") {
        
$group $usergroup;
    }

    
# remove any line breaks that may have been entered
    
$userlist str_replace("\\r\\n"","$userlist);

    if (
trim($userlist) == "") {
        return 
$lang["mustspecifyoneusername"];
    }
    
$userlist resolve_userlist_groups($userlist);
    if (
strpos($userlist$lang["groupsmart"] . ": ") !== false) {
        
$userlist_with_groups $userlist;
        
$groups_users resolve_userlist_groups_smart($userlisttrue);
        if (
$groups_users != '') {
            if (
$userlist != "") {
                
$userlist remove_groups_smart_from_userlist($userlist);
                if (
$userlist != "") {
                    
$userlist .= ",";
                }
            }
            
$userlist .= $groups_users;
        }
    }

    
$ulist trim_array(explode(","$userlist));
    
$ulist array_filter($ulist);
    
$ulist array_values($ulist);

    
$ulist trim_array(explode(","$userlist));
    
$ulist array_filter($ulist);
    
$ulist array_values($ulist);

    
$emails = array();
    
$key_required = array();

    
$emails_keys resolve_user_emails($ulist);

    if (
=== count($emails_keys)) {
        return 
$lang['email_error_user_list_not_valid'];
    }

    
$unames       $emails_keys['unames'];
    
$emails       $emails_keys['emails'];
    
$key_required $emails_keys['key_required'];

    
# Send an e-mail to each resolved user / e-mail address
    
$subject "$applicationname$resourcename";
    if (
$fromusername == "") {
        
$fromusername $applicationname;
    } 
// fromusername is used for describing the sender's name inside the email
    
if ($from_name == "") {
        
$from_name $applicationname;
    } 
// from_name is for the email headers, and needs to match the email address (app name or user name)

    
$message str_replace(array("\\n","\\r","\\"), array("\n","\r",""), $message);

    
$resolve_open_access false;

    for (
$n 0$n count($emails); $n++) {
        
$key "";
        
# Do we need to add an external access key for this user (e-mail specified rather than username)?
        
if ($key_required[$n]) {
            
$k generate_resource_access_key($resource$userref$access$expires$emails[$n], $group$sharepwd);
            
$key "&k=" $k;
        } elseif (
$useraccess == && $open_internal_access && !$resolve_open_access) {
            
debug("smart_groups: going to resolve open access");
            
# get this all done at once
            
resolve_open_access((isset($userlist_with_groups) ? $userlist_with_groups $userlist), $resource$expires);
            
$resolve_open_access true;
        }

        
# make vars available to template
        
global $watermark;
        
$templatevars['thumbnail'] = get_resource_path($resourcetrue"thm"false"jpg", -11, ($watermark) ? (($access == 1) ? true false) : false);
        if (!
file_exists($templatevars['thumbnail'])) {
            
$resourcedata get_resource_data($resource);
            
$templatevars['thumbnail'] = "../gfx/no_preview/default.png";
        }
        
$templatevars['url'] = $baseurl "/?r=" $resource $key;
        
$templatevars['fromusername'] = $fromusername;
        
$templatevars['message'] = $message;
        
$templatevars['resourcename'] = $resourcename;
        
$templatevars['from_name'] = $from_name;
        if (isset(
$k)) {
            if (
$expires == "") {
                
$templatevars['expires_date'] = $lang["email_link_expires_never"];
                
$templatevars['expires_days'] = $lang["email_link_expires_never"];
            } else {
                
$day_count round((strtotime($expires) - strtotime('now')) / (60 60 24));
                
$templatevars['expires_date'] = $lang['email_link_expires_date'] . nicedate($expires);
                
$templatevars['expires_days'] = $lang['email_link_expires_days'] . $day_count;
                if (
$day_count 1) {
                    
$templatevars['expires_days'] .= " " $lang['expire_days'] . ".";
                } else {
                    
$templatevars['expires_days'] .= " " $lang['expire_day'] . ".";
                }
            }
        } else {
            
# Set empty expiration templatevars
            
$templatevars['expires_date'] = '';
            
$templatevars['expires_days'] = '';
        }

        
# Build message and send.
        
if (count($emails) > && $list_recipients === true) {
            
$body $lang["list-recipients"] . "\n" implode("\n"$emails) . "\n\n";
            
$templatevars['list-recipients'] = $lang["list-recipients"] . "\n" implode("\n"$emails) . "\n\n";
        } else {
            
$body "";
        }

        
$body .= $templatevars['fromusername'] . " " $lang["hasemailedyouaresource"] . "\n\n" $templatevars['message'] . "\n\n" $lang["clicktoviewresource"] . "\n\n" $templatevars['url'];
        
$send_result send_mail($emails[$n], $subject$body$fromusername$useremail"emailresource"$templatevars$from_name$cc);
        if (
$send_result !== true) {
            return 
$send_result;
        }

        
# log this
        
resource_log($resourceLOG_CODE_EMAILED""$unames[$n]);
    }
    
hook("additional_email_resource""", array($resource,$resourcename,$fromusername,$userlist,$message,$access,$expires,$useremail,$from_name,$cc,$templatevars));
    
# Return an empty string (all OK).
    
return "";
}

This article was last updated 11th February 2025 20:35 Europe/London time based on the source file dated 10th February 2025 10:40 Europe/London time.