Imagine two people enrolled in a course.
Person A messages Person B.
Person B is currently receiving an email telling them someone has messaged them.
Where and how can I customize this email? I've searched high and low in the source code, but could not find anything concrete. Is there a template somewhere in there? Thanks for the help.
Thank you, that helped a lot. I found this in the lang/en/message.php file:
$string['emailtagline'] = 'This is a copy of a message sent to you at "{$a->sitename}". Go to {$a->url} to reply.';
I can understand the concept that the link is being dynamically genereted by a script somewhere. The '{$a->url}' bit.
Where should I look for if I want to change the generated link? I want to append a certain url GET parameter into it. Thanks!
Just use your favourite tool to search for where 'emailtagline' appears in the code, and that will tell you where it is used. In the version of Moodle I have, it is in message/lib.php.
Great, I managed to find the exact area in the source files I need to modify.
/messages/lib.php : line - 2042
This is how the default Moodle code looks like:
$s->url = $CFG->wwwroot.'/message/index.php?user='.$userto->id.'&id='.$userfrom->id;
Here is the change I have already made in order for the course name and link to show up in the message window when somebody clicks the link to the conversation.
# This is where we're going to change the URL that is sent along with the email when a new
# message is sent to a user.
$s->url = $CFG->wwwroot.'/message/index.php?user='.$userto->id.'&id='.$userfrom->id.'&courseId='.'2';
I've already worked out the details on how to wire this up. I just need to figure out how to provide the correct course ID value to the GET parameter listed there in the code above.
As my code stands, I've hard coded a static '2' value for courseId just to test it out, and it works fine.
Is there a way for me to find out the course the user was in previously and place that value there? I notice there's a CONTEXT_COURSE variable in the original code, but I'm not sure if this is what I need to use or even how to use it.
I really appreciate the help. Once I'm done I'll write a small tutorial as I'm sure I'm not the first or last one who needs this sort of functionality.
