Blog: Messaging Framework

Two New Frameworks to Give You More Options

Do you want a nice Ajax UI that lets users subscribe to comments by a given user, but only for nodes of a given content type and that have a certain tag assigned, oh, and only for comments posted on Friday? Do you also want these notifications sent to you printed on nice postcards?

Then you should check out the Notifications Framework. Nope, it doesn't do all that - yet :-) - but you won't have to write it all from scratch. You'll only need to write the UI plug-in, a short module defining the parameters for this subscription type, and the 'print-and-send-to-the-post-office' module, which I think will be the most difficult one. Hey, and if you contribute back the 'print-and-send-to-the-post-office' module, I'll be able to use it with my 'happy-birthday' plugín to send birthday postcards to the users of my website!

Here's a look at the Notifications Framework in Drupal:

And here's how it looks in use on our intranet: