Don't think it's included in blog4umbraco, and you'll need to do some custom coding to get notifications working...

• Have to have a relation between a node (post) and a user so user can get notified for each new comment. Can use event model and the umbraco relation api for that.
• Need event handlers that check for new comment nodes and sents out emails to people registered to be notified of new comments (Start here for more info)

Hope this helps.

Regards,

/Dirk

Hello Dirk

Thank you for a quick respond. It would be beyond my knowledge to code such an extension.

I'm surprised that it isn't already available, since the dialog is such an esential element of blogging.

Best regards,
Lars

Hi Lars

To re-start your forum post - I too am wanting this functionality for my blog.

As a quick fix it would be easy enough to write a new method that sends you an email upon a successful comment being added. I would envisage adding another AJAX call to usercontrols/Blog4Umbraco/AJAXCommentForm.ascx as follows:

...
jQuery.post(url, { author: jQuery("#commentform #author").val(), email: jQuery("#commentform #email").val(), url: jQuery("#commentform #url").val(), comment: jQuery("#commentform #comment").val() },
function(data){
jQuery("#commentLoading").hide();
jQuery("#commentPosted").show().removeClass("error");

#####Add code here to send email ######

if(data == 0){
... 

I did read on the codeplex site for the blog package that this is being developed so the above could be seen as a temporary solution pending an updated release of the blog package.

If you are interested drop me a note - [email protected] - I will be looking to add this to my site over the next week or two so would happily provide the code and instructions on adding to your site. 

Regards

Nigel 

Hi

I needed the same functionality. I succesfuly implemeted this. Here's how I did it

1. 1. Javascript in AjaxCommentForm (SendNotificationEmail.aspx is the template made in step 4)

   ///EMAIL NOTIFICATION CODE
   var posLastSlash = url.lastIndexOf('/');
   var posLastPoint = url.lastIndexOf('.');
   var nodeid = url.substring(posLastSlash+1, posLastPoint);
   $.ajax({
       type: "GET",
       url: "SendNotificationEmail.aspx",
       data: "nodeid="+nodeid
   });
   ///END EMAIL NOTIFICATION CODE
   

2. 2. SendNotificationEmail.xslt

    
   <xsl:template match="/">
     <xsl:variable name="nodeid" select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('nodeid')"/>
     <xsl:if test="$nodeid != ''">
       <xsl:variable name="comments" select="BlogLibrary:GetCommentsForPost($nodeid)"  />
       <xsl:variable name="uniqueEmails" select="$comments/*/comment [not(email = preceding-sibling::*/email)]" />
   
       <xsl:variable name="newComment" select="$comments/*/comment [last()]"/>
       <xsl:variable name="postUrl" select="concat('http://thijs.domain.com',umbraco.library:NiceUrl($nodeid))"/>
       <xsl:variable name="bodyText">
         <xsl:text>
           There is a new comment on
         </xsl:text>
   
         <a href="$postUrl"></a>
       </xsl:variable>
   
       <xsl:for-each select="$uniqueEmails">
         <xsl:variable name="email" select="./email"/>
         <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:SendMail('[email protected]', 
                                                         $email, 
                                                         'New comment!',
                                                         $bodyText,
                                                         'true'
                       )"/>
       </xsl:for-each>
     </xsl:if>
   </xsl:template>
   

3. 3. Developer>Marcros>Add Macro>linked the xslt file to a macro
4. 4. Settings>Templates>Add Template>use the macro on this template

I hope this helps people in the future

Thijs

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