[pmwiki-devel] notify'ing a page

[marc]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:50:30PM -0000, marc wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > To register a page to notify - after a WritePage - is anything more 
> > required than:
> > 
> >   $IsPagePosted = true;
> >   NotifyUpdate(group.page);
> 
> Better is probably:
> 
>     $IsPagePosted = true;
>     PostNotify('group.page', $page, $page);
> 
> The $page parameter is a dummy parameter -- PostNotify doesn't
> use them (they're just there for signature compatibility with the
> rest of the EditFunctions).
> 
> PostNotify() is better because it postpones the notification 
> until after other processing has completed and output has been
> flushed to the browser.  That way the person on the other end
> isn't stuck waiting for notifications to take place (which may
> take a short while, depending on how many pending notifications
> there are) before seeing the results of the page request.

Excellent. Thanks a lot.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc