Hook into Entry::EVENT_AFTER_SAVE when user saves it

Question

I want to send a Mail to an admin, whenever a User of group ‚Cook‘ creates an Entry of Type ‚Recipe‘.

For that I created an Event reacting on Entry::EVENT_AFTER_SAVE :

Event::on(
    Entry::class,
    Entry::EVENT_AFTER_SAVE, static function (ModelEvent $event) {

    /** Entry @entry */
    $entry = $event->sender;

    /** @var User $user */
    $user = Craft::$app->getUser();

    if (!$event->isNew) {
        if ($user->identity->isInGroup('cook') &&
            ElementHelper::isDraftOrRevision($entry) &&
            $entry->getStatus() === Entry::STATUS_DISABLED) {

         
            $cpUrl = $entry->cpEditUrl;
            $bodyText = "Dear Admin. /n $userName has created <a href=$cpUrl>$entry</a>.";
        

        };
    }
});

As your can see - I tried a lot to only react on the first creation of the entry. But all this does not the trick. Behind the scenes craft created an Entry (and saves it initially) even when the Cook presses the ’New Entry’ Button.

So I don’t know hook in only when the message is first saved directly by the user pressing the ‚Create‘ Button after entering the content.

It would be nice if your could help me with that.

Thanks in advance. Michael

Answer 1

Your code is pretty close. You want to make sure it's a new entry and not a draft or a revision so you could use:

Event::on(
    Entry::class,
    Entry::EVENT_AFTER_SAVE, static function (ModelEvent $event) {

    /** Entry @entry */
    $entry = $event->sender;

    /** @var User $user */
    $user = Craft::$app->getUser();

    if (
        $event->isNew // Makes sure it's a new entry
        $user->identity->isInGroup('cook') && // Makes sure your user is in the cook group
        !ElementHelper::isDraftOrRevision($entry) && // Makes it's not a draft or a revision
    ) {  
            $cpUrl = $entry->cpEditUrl;
            $bodyText = "Dear Admin. /n $userName has created <a href=$cpUrl>$entry</a>.";
    }
});