Option to send mail to all attendees of an event

it was mentioned before (have to search) but here once more.


think it's indeed usefull to have an option in the backend at first where admins can send a simple email to all attendees of an event.

for example:
- within the attendees view we can create an additional tab/slider "mail"
- in there we create a field for text/subject + button "sendmail"
- when clicking the button it fires up a function in the controller
- that one fires up the mailtrigger
- at the same time the fields also have to be cleared as the message is being send
- (maybe we can use take a look at com_messages for it, not sure.)
- the send mail is not stored

- perhaps also good to see if it's possible to take into account that not everyone likes to receive an email. so an opt-in/opt-out options is maybe something to consider.

Hi Bluefox,

as answered on th other topic I think this is too much for an event manager. It's a nice feature, yes, but not a main feature. Maybe we can cooperate with pm tools.

did see the message,.

and yep maybe it's something for the future to look at.

Did try this one a bit more and created a simple sendmail option in the attendees view (backend).

it's to simple and needs to be adjusted/tested a lot more but this is what i tried and how it looks now.

- there are 2 tabs
- both have a seperate form in it
- within the model (attendees) there is an jinput to catch if a description
was entered. if so it's calling a sendmail function in the model.
- in the sendmail function there is a trigger that's referring to the mail plugin.
- in the mail-plugin it collects all emailadresses belonging to the attendees and it will try to send the mail to them
- when the submit-button is called it will show a message "Your message has been sent"
- when pressing the "Send new mail" button it will reload the page and you're able to send a new message

- something to sort out: when seeing the "Your message has been sent" and doing a refresh will resend mail. something that can be done is to add an additional field to the registertable called mail/sendmail. when mail is send it will be filled with 1, when not it's 0. it will create an additional table but it makes it easier to detect when a mail has been sent.


ah well like said it's for the future and UddeIM is indeed also a thing to take a look at.

Hello Bluefox,
as I'm new to JEM, could you precise me how to go in the attendees view ? and send them a mail like you said ?

For private events, I would like to send mails :

• to all Joomla registered users
• to people not attending to an event. (to re-invite them)
• to people attending to an event. (to remind them the event)

Thanks for your help. Regards

code.warrior wrote: Hello Bluefox,
as I'm new to JEM, could you precise me how to go in the attendees view ? and send them a mail like you said ?

For private events, I would like to send mails :

• to all Joomla registered users
• to people not attending to an event. (to re-invite them)
• to people attending to an event. (to remind them the event)

Thanks for your help. Regards

Hi Code.warrior

Have to say that, that option is unfortunately not possible right now
Due to all kind of things I've dropped that progress.

Was busy with something else but can spend some time into this one as i would really like to have such an option myself. Hope i won't be distracted with other things Will add the code below when i've something to share.

Be aware: none of the code will be added to Github.
This as the current Repository is for a version with dual Joomla support but will only concentrate on Joomla 3.