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Sending URL's in Notifications - is it possible?

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:18 pm
by jjohnston
Hello everyone!

I was searching this board for an answer but didn't come up with anything so I figured I would just register and ask.

Is it possible to send a URL in a Growl notification and have it appear as a clickable link? I am working on an intranet application and I wrote my own php 5.2+ based implementation of the Growl protocol and I'd like to send links along with text to the people who use Macs in our office.

Right now I am sending stickies with the url but you can't even cut-n-paste them out of the popup.

Thanks!

Re: Sending URL's in Notifications - is it possible?

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:41 pm
by The_Tick
It won't show up as a clickable link. However, if your php bindings support them, growl supports something called a clickback. Basically if they click the notification, it'll go back to the application and say "they clicked it" from which you can do whatever you want with that knowledge.

Re: Sending URL's in Notifications - is it possible?

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:05 pm
by jjohnston
Thanks for the info. I'm not sure if I can get it to do what I want since the notifications I am sending aren't triggered while the user is on the website but I will look into it.


Is their documentation on how to implement the clickback functionality?