Drupal 'Send Email' advanced action

Question

I may be missing something blindingly obvious here (I hope so).....I am creating a module in Drupal 6 that consists of some triggers and actions. in it's simplest form it consists of:

1. An action which checks for some criteria (event that needs to be triggered once a month per user)
2. A trigger which is fired for each user that the criteria is true for

I would like as much as possible to be managed through the triggers / actions interface in Drupal as the site admin is not a developer. The plan is to use the cron trigger to fire the action in 1. which will then fire a trigger for each user. The site admin will then be able to create a Send Email action through the actions interface and hook it up to the trigger from 2.

The part I can't get my head around is how the recipient of the email will be specified - the user trigger will be fired from an action run by cron (ie not in any user context) - how can I pass in a variable that can be used here?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Triggers fire actions not the other way around.

The user that you pass to actions_do dosn't have to be the logged in user. You can query for the users that you want to email and loop thrhough them doing user_load and then an actions_do

something like

foreach ($user_ids as $uid) {
  $context_user = user_load(array('uid' => $uid));
  $context = array(
    'hook' => 'myhook',
    'op' => $op,
    'user' => $context_user,
  );
  actions_do(array_keys($aids), $context_user, $context);
}