Triggering onContentChangeState from another plugin?

[Ronny Buelund]

I use an extension to automatically unpublish articles after 30 days. I need this extension(plugin) to trigger the onContentChangeState event so that my selfmade plugin that acts on this trigger will send out an email. 

But how do I trigger the onContentChangeState event from inside this other plugin ?

[Stephen]

Try below:

public function onContentPrepare($context, &$article, &$params, $page = 0) { $days = $this->params->get('days', 30); $publishDate = new DateTime($article->publish_up); $currentDate = new DateTime(); if ($publishDate->diff($currentDate)->days >= $days) { $article->state = 0; } }

[Ronny Buelund]

I think you misunderstand. I have now created a task plugin that unpublishes articles in a certain category when the publish_up date is more than 30 days old. I need this task plugin to also trigger the onContentChangeState  event, which my mail plugin acts on. How would I do that ?

[Ronny Buelund]

Ok - I found the solution. To trigger the  onContentChangeState event  from inside another plugin, on an article with for example id=4:

use Joomla\CMS\Factory;
use Joomla\CMS\CMSObject;
use Joomla\CMS\Plugin\PluginHelper;

$article[0] = 4;
PluginHelper::importPlugin('content');
$app = Factory::getApplication();
$test = $app->triggerEvent('onContentChangeState', array('com_content.article', &$article, &$params, 0));