Hello,

I have a data object "product". I'm using the code below to send an email to the administrator when a new product is created. It will also send a different email when a product record was updated. Can someone till if I'm doing it in the correct way, or if there is a better way to set different email notifcations?

    function onBeforeWrite() {
        if(!$this->ID) {
            $email = new Email();
            $email->setTo('admin@domain.com');
            $email->setSubject('New Record Created');
            $email->setFrom('admin@domain.com');
            $email->setBody("A new record was added");
            $email->send();
        }
        if( $this->isChanged() && $this->ID) {
                $email = new Email();
                $email->setTo('admin@domain.comt');
                $email->setSubject('Record details updated');
                $email->setFrom('admin@domain.com');
                $email->setBody("Details a record are updated");
                $email->send();
        }
      parent::onBeforeWrite(); 
   }

Thanks

Thats not a bad way to do it, looks good.

Depending on how frequently products are updated I would find the update email somewhat annoying if it was occurring multiple times a day. I would add a new boolean field to the object, mark it as updated, then send out an email daily or even weekly depending on the requirements.

Using Scheduled tasks, even though it's 2.4 docs it will be the same for 3.x
http://api.silverstripe.org/2.4/class-ScheduledTask.html

class ProductUpdateTask extends DailyTask {
function process() {
// email product summary here
}
}