How to detect that a scheduled entry has been published?

[goraxan]

I need to notify users when a new entry is published, if the entry is published (status = Live) from the begining I can detect it easily, by checking the firstSave attribute at the Entry::EVENT_AFTER_SAVE event and checking that the status is Live.
The problem comes when the entry is first saved schedule ti be published in the future (with a post date in the future, meaning it's saved with a status = Pending).

When the entry is automatically published, I can't detect it. I've tried to use $entry->isAttributeDirty('status') in the EVENT_AFTER_SAVE event in order to see if that attribute changed but it looks like it's always false.

Any ideas?

[brandonkelly]

This module can be used to track the moment an entry goes live.

[goraxan]

I'll have a look, thanks!

[Jensderond]

Any idea how this can be accomplished with 5.x? Cannot seem to find any event and the module is outdated.

[brandonkelly]

Just PR’d a native solution for this for Craft 5.7: there’s a new staticStatuses config setting, which can be used to opt into having entry statuses stored statically and only updated on entry save; plus an update-statuses CLI command that can be hit with a Cron job, which updates any entries with out-of-date statuses, triggering save events and clearing caches in the process. (Plus a new Entry::$oldStatus property that can be checked from save event handlers to see if the status just changed.)

[brandonkelly]

Craft 5.7.0 is out with that change.