[Updated] How to: Send email when video is played

[nutt318]

EDIT (10/15/2012): I've updated the code a little bit, it should work better than before. This is test on SubSonic ver. 4.7
This tutorial will show you how to modify SubSonic to send an email when a video file is played along with the user and IP address. This is my first one so be nice if there are any errors.

Currently this doesn't work in IE9, if someone knows why I would like to hear.

Edit playAddDownload.jsp (yours may be different but here is mine) - located in C:\subsonic\jetty\2583\webapp\WEB-INF\jsp
Add the following code to the top of the file

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<script>
function sendMail(video, user) {
var xmlhttp;
         if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
            xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
         } else {// IE6, IE5
            xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
         }
         xmlhttp.open("GET", "http://www.yourdomain.com/somedirectory/sendemail.php?video="+video+"&user="+user+'&ip=<%= request.getHeader("X-Real-IP") %>', false); // Use this if using a reverse proxy
         xmlhttp.open("GET", "http://www.yourdomain.com/somedirectory/sendemail.php?video="+video+"&user="+user+"&ip=<%= request.getRemoteAddr()) %>", false); // Use this if using a NAT on your firewall
         xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>


Then in the same file look for this chuck of code, around line ~54

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            <a href="${videoUrl}" target="main">


Make it look like this

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            <a href="${videoUrl}" target="main" onclick="sendMail(parentElement.parentElement.getElementsByTagName('span')[2].attributes['title'].value, '${model.user.username}')">


Now hopefully you have a hosting provider that supports .php or you could use your local machine. Create a .php file called sendemail.php and put it on your hosting account like in the above code. In this .php file you will want to put the following code.

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<?php
$videoplaying = $_GET['video'];
$username = $_GET['user'];
$ip = $_GET['ip'];
$to = "youremail@email.com";
$subject = "Video Streaming";
$message = $username . " has just started watching " . $videoplaying . " from IP Address: " . $ip;
$from = "subsonic@yourdomainname.com";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>

[GJ51]

Great job getting this figured out. This would be a great feature to incorporate into a future release. It would be nice to be able to select email notifications to the admin or designated user with a range of trigger options based on who/what the admin wants to monitor, perhaps by username, media type, ip address, and whatever else makes sense to ensure that your site isn't being abused or compromised.

I'll link this post to an entry in the feature request section.

EDIT: Please comment in the feature request forum if you have interest. Here's the link:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9444

[nutt318]

Guide has been updated.

[qtip920]

Maybe a dumb question. But does this only work if the user is using IE?

[nutt318]

Haven't tested this in a while (currently on my phone) but it should work just fine with Firefox and chrome. IE was having problems. I'll have to retest and post what I find.

[qtip920]

All my users are using Chrome. I've been trying to get this to work. But can't seem to figure it out.

[nutt318]

Hmm, I can try to help you out. Do you use gmail, easier to chat instead of post in the forum. PM me you contact if you want.

[qtip920]

I actually got it working. Thanks for the offer tho and thanks for the awesome mod.

[gurutech]

How would I code this to use my Gmail account as an SMTP relay? I run SS on my own computer, and my ISP blocks port 25, so I have to use an SMTP relay through my Gmail account to send mail from my computer.

Will this just pick up the settings automatically (use what's built in to my Linux configuration), or is there a setting I need to adjust somewhere?