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I am looking for the following feature:
Person A makes a change on the site. “Some function” detects this change and sends an automatic email (with info about the change) to Person B.
Is this possible to do somehow? Maybe there is already a plugin for Expression Engine or Joomla? Maybe there are other scripts one could use? Together with cron?
All help is welcome.
Thanks in advance.
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A search on "notify on website change" gives you many options. Perhaps you can elaborate on why you need to be notified. Is it forum posting you need to monitor or something else?
It is not forum notification that I want.
What I need is en email to be sent out when a manual change is made on a website/file. The email should be with info about the URL changed and preferably what the change is.
This will be used to send out an email to a "translator" that will then make changes on a translated site version. When the translator makes the change, an other email should be send out to Person A to inform about that change.
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If it's done via FTP, this would have to be done at a system level, using the FTP'ed - in user's actions as a trigger to execute the notify. This is a bit beyond my expertise, but someone good at system administration might be able to point you in the right direction.
as rocknbil suggested your notification method might depend on your CMS or other method of updating content.
if your update method is simply offline edits that are ftp'd to the server you will need a repository of previous versions for comparisons.
you might consider implementing a revision control system and using a daily cron job to determine the source file diffs since the last check was made.
The best would be if there was an extension for EE that did this. If not, what is the best way to do this if I'm not a great programmer?
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