mtrace("Checking course creation requests");
if ($pending = get_records("course_request")) { $admin = get_admin(); $subject = "Course requests pending approval"; $messagetext = "Course requests have been submitted for approval. Please check pending.html."; email_to_user($admin,$admin,$subject,$messagetext); }
mtrace("Course requests checked");

http://localhost/moodle/admin/cron-course-pending.php

Notice: every time you call this skript admin will receive a email if pending courses are available - so think about your cron-intervall you will call this script...

Bertold

//Begin: Informing Admin
$moodleadmin = get_record('user','id',3);
$emailText = "Es liegt eine neue Kursanforderung von $USER->firstname $USER->lastname vor! \n\n Titel: $data->fullname \n Grund: $data->reason\n";
email_to_user($moodleadmin, $USER, 'Neue Kursanforderung', $emailText);
//End: Informing Admin

notice(get_string('courserequestsuccess'));

Thanks to Andre Krüger from Berlin who suggested this to me at moodle.de.

but used the form:

$admin = get_admin();
$subject = 'course request';
$messagetext = 'a course has been requested. Go to '.$CFG->wwwroot.'/course/pending.php to see it';
email_to_user($admin,$USER, $subject, $messagetext);

This way it is easy to reply to the requesting user and also link to /course/pending.php

It's now noted in the documentation:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Course_request
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.4_release_notes

Why not instead have email notification sent to all admins or have a field for entering an email address to which notification should be sent?

In Administration > Security > Notifications the notifyloginfailures setting has 3 options - Nobody, Administrator and All administrators (I'm not sure how this is working since the implementation of roles!)

Alternatively, perhaps we could have a notifycourserequest capability similar to mod/quiz:emailnotifysubmission.

What do people think?

And should we do something similar for notify login failures?

A Nobody option would be helpful for people like me who don't know about CTRL+click. Alternatively, the following text could be added to the lang string:

Multiple users may be selected/deselected by holding down the Apple or Ctrl key whilst clicking on the users' names.

+1 for a multi-select box for notifyloginfailures. I can't find any other admin settings which would benefit from the same treatment.

Note, I only changed the notifyloginfailures setting in HEAD.

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-17877

And I don't see the point of reopening this bug after you have filed a separate bug. (By all means link the bugs.)

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Notifications