Send email to content owner when scheduled publish/unpublish occurs

Hi Joshua,

If you have your own custom module in which you can implement hooks, then you can do it using hook_scheduler_api() and hook_mail().
hook_scheduler_api() accepts two parameters - $node is the node object being processed, and $action is either 'publish' or 'unpublish'

/**
 * Implementation of hook_scheduler_api.
 *
 * @param $node
 *  The node object
 * @param $action
 *  The action being performed, either "publish" or "unpublish"
 */
function yourmodule_scheduler_api($node, $action) {
  if (some condition) {
    // parameters: drupal_mail($module, $key, $to, $language, $params = array(), $from = NULL, $send = TRUE) {
    drupal_mail('yourmodule', 'mail key', $user->mail, etc depending on your needs);
  }
}

drupal_mail() calls the specified hook_mail() function given by the first parameter.
hook_mail() defines values for the subject, body, etc

/**
 * Implementation of hook_mail().
 *
 * Constructs an email.
 *
 * @param $key
 *   Unique key to indicate what message to build.
 * @param $message
 *   Reference to the message array being built.
 * @param $params
 *   Array of parameters to indicate what kind of text to include in the
 *   message body.
 *
 */
function yourmodule_mail($key, &$message, $params) {
  switch ($key) {
    case 'this-mail-key':
      $message['subject'] .= 'your subject';
      $message['body'][] = 'text';
      // etc ...       
      break;
    // etc ...       
}

Hope that gives you some ideas. I've not tested the above php, although I have copied this from various different bits of working code. If you want to try it, let me know and I'm happy to help some more.

Jonathan

OK that's fine.
For the record, and my own interest, I checked out my idea above, and here is a working version, in case anyone else needs this:

/**
 * Implements hook_scheduler_api.
 *
 * @param $node
 *  The node object
 * @param $action
 *  The action being performed, either 'pre_publish', 'publish', 'pre_unpublish' or 'unpublish'
 */
function d7testing_scheduler_api($node, $action) {
  if (substr($action, 0, 3) != 'pre') {
    $user = user_load($node->uid);
    $params = array('title' => $node->title, 'type' => $node->type, 'action' => $action,
                    'name' => $user->name, 'mail' => $user->mail);
    // parameters: drupal_mail($module, $key, $to, $language, $params = array(), $from = NULL, $send = TRUE)
    drupal_mail('d7testing', 'scheduler_notification', $user->mail, NULL, $params);
  }
}


/**
 * Implements hook_mail().
 *
 * Constructs an email.
 *
 * @param $key
 *   Unique key to indicate what message to build.
 * @param $message
 *   Reference to the message array being built.
 * @param $params
 *   Array of parameters to indicate what kind of text to include in the
 *   message body.
 */
function d7testing_mail($key, &$message, $params) {
  switch ($key) {
    case 'scheduler_notification':
      $message['subject'] = 'Drupal ' . $params['type'] . ' "' . $params['title'] . '"';
      $message['body'][] = 'Dear ' . $params['name']; 
      $message['body'][] = 'Your ' . $params['type'] . ' "' . $params['title'] . '" has just been '
                           . ($params['action'] == 'publish' ? 'published' : 'unpublished')
                           . ' by the scheduler module.'; 
      $message['body'][] = 'Site: ' . variable_get('site_name'); 
      $message['body'][] = 'Date: ' . date(variable_get('date_format_long')); 
      $message['body'][] = $message['from']; 
      break;
  }       
}

Jonathan

Hi Joshua,
I have now started on the Rules Integration for Scheduler, and provided two default reaction rules, which do exactly this.
See #773510: Integration with Rules module