C4::Letters - Give functions for Letters management
use C4::Letters;
"Letters" is the tool used in Koha to manage informations sent to the patrons and/or the library. This include some cron jobs like late issues, as well as other tasks like sending a mail to users that have subscribed to a "serial issue alert" (= being warned every time a new issue has arrived at the library) Letters are managed through "alerts" sent by Koha on some events. All "alert" related functions are in this module too.
$letters = &getletters($category); returns informations about letters. if needed, $category filters for letters given category Create a letter selector with the following code
my $letters = GetLetters($cat); my @letterloop; foreach my $thisletter (keys %$letters) { my $selected = 1 if $thisletter eq $letter; my %row =( value => $thisletter, selected => $selected, lettername => $letters->{$thisletter}, ); push @letterloop, \%row; }
<select name="letter">
<option value="">Default</option>
<!-- TMPL_LOOP name="letterloop" -->
<option value="<!-- TMPL_VAR name="value" -->" <!-- TMPL_IF name="selected" -->selected<!-- /TMPL_IF -->><!-- TMPL_VAR name="lettername" --></option>
<!-- /TMPL_LOOP -->
</select>
parameters :
- $borrowernumber : the number of the borrower subscribing to the alert
- $type : the type of alert.
- externalid : the primary key of the object to put alert on. For issues, the alert is made on subscriptionid.
create an alert and return the alertid (primary key)
parameters :
- alertid : the alert id
deletes the alert
parameters :
- $borrowernumber : the number of the borrower subscribing to the alert
- $type : the type of alert.
- externalid : the primary key of the object to put alert on. For issues, the alert is made on subscriptionid.
all parameters NON mandatory. If a parameter is omitted, the query is done without the corresponding parameter. For example, without $externalid, returns all alerts for a borrower on a topic.
parameters :
- $type : the type of alert
- $externalid : the id of the "object" to query
In the table alert, a "id" is stored in the externalid field. This "id" is related to another table, depending on the type of the alert.
When type=issue, the id is related to a subscriptionid and this sub returns the name of the biblio.
When type=virtual, the id is related to a virtual shelf and this sub returns the name of the sub
parameters :
- $type : the type of alert
- $externalid : the id of the "object" to query
- $letter : the letter to send.
send an alert to all borrowers having put an alert on a given subject.
parameters :
- $letter : a hash to letter fields (title & content useful)
- $table : the Koha table to parse.
- $pk : the primary key to query on the $table table
parse all fields from a table, and replace values in title & content with the appropriate value
(not exported sub, used only internally)
my $success = EnqueueLetter( { letter => $letter, borrowernumber => '12', message_transport_type => 'email' } )
places a letter in the message_queue database table, which will eventually get processed (sent) by the process_message_queue.pl cronjob when it calls SendQueuedMessages.
return true on success
SendQueuedMessages()
sends all of the 'pending' items in the message queue.
my $sent = SendQueuedMessages( { verbose => 1 } )
returns number of messages sent.
my $message_list = GetRSSMessages( { limit => 10, borrowernumber => '14' } )
returns a listref of all queued RSS messages for a particular person.
my $messages = GetQueuedMessage( { borrowernumber => '123', limit => 20 } );
fetches messages out of the message queue.
returns: list of hashes, each has represents a message in the message queue.