Moderate posts using Actions and Workflow

Submitted by aufumy on Thu, 2010-11-11 15:04

There are many options for moderating posts in Drupal. A tried and true method is with the use of the modr8 module.

I used Drupal's core trigger module, the contributed workflow module and a custom action to accomplish a similar functionality.

I enabled the workflow module, and created the "course queue" workflow, with states "accepted", "pending" and "declined".

When editing the workflow, you can specify what states the author can transition the workflow to, for example you can specify that only admins can make the state to 'accepted'

Workflow access allows control over which roles can access nodes in a certain workflow state.

In my custom module, I use the text entered into a custom cck field that only the admin can enter, to email the message to the author.

<?php
/**
* Implementation of hook_action_info().
*/
function mymodule_action_info() {
return array(
'mymodule_send_approval_message_action' => array(
'description' => t('Send approval message'),
'type' => 'mymodule',
'configurable' => FALSE,
'hooks' => array(
'nodeapi' => array('view', 'insert', 'update', 'delete'),
)
),
);
}

/**
* Sends a message to course/workshop creator
*/
function mymodule_send_approval_message_action(&$node, $context) {
$u = user_load($context['node']->uid);
$to = $u->mail;
$settings['subject'] = $context['node']->type .': '. $context['node']->title;
$settings['body'] = $context['node']->field_message[0]['value'];

$message = drupal_mail('mymodule', 'author_message', $to, language_default(), $settings);
if (! $message['result']) {
watchdog('mymodule', 'Email not sent email to %recipient', array('%recipient' => $to));
}
}

/**
* Implementation of hook_mail().
*
* Set's the message subject and body as configured in the $settings of the action.
*/
function mymodule_mail($key, &$message, $settings) {
if ($key == 'author_message' || $key == 'unpublish_xth') {
$message['subject'] .= str_replace(array("\r", "\n"), '', $settings['subject']);
$message['body'][] = $settings['body'];
} elseif ($key == 'unpublish_xth') {
$message['subject'] = $settings['subject'];
$message['body'][] = $settings['body'];
}
}
?>

After enabling the custom module, you will see the action listed in the actions settings admin page.

The last step is to administer the triggers page, and add the action to each workflow state change. For example, when the workflow state is changed to accepted, besides emailing the author that the state has changed, with the admins custom note, you can also add the action to publish the node. Whereas moving the node to declined, the action can be added to unpublish the node, as well as email the author of the state change.

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