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User Notification in CI - El Forum - 03-22-2013
[eluser]Radou[/eluser]
Hello all,
I was wondering how can we implement a simple notification to a user when something new happens.
Example : if a user posted something and another user commented on that, the first should see a message in his inbox saying that someone commented on his entry.
The thing I dont get it even if it is an operation we see everyday in our world (emails, facebook, gmail etc) is : are notifications stored in a db ? how can we know that a user opened an unread message or comment ? should that be a field in a table ?
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
Radou
User Notification in CI - El Forum - 03-22-2013
[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
you could add a enum field called status to database tables.
You would then need to check this to see if the user had read the message etc;
User Notification in CI - El Forum - 03-23-2013
[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
Other than getting the user to click on a link in an email, there's no way for you to know whether or not it's been read. Notifications are nornally stored in the database, and the user is emailed a notification to let them know they have a notification (if that makes sense). When they login to the Web site, and read the notification, your app can then mark it as being read.