Facebook style notifications

CRichardson

I am creating an internal account system and need to have a notification system.

So when a user logs into the system it lets them know what has been posted where.

For example user a posts a new note about account a, when user b logs in it should let them know a new note has been posted about account a and so on for each user.

How should I go about creating a notification system?

:queasy:

leatherback

In course steps:

You need a way to determine for which persons to show messages (Is person B really interested in person A)
Select all 'friends' of person B
Select all actions of all the friend where timestamp > a certain time

CRichardson

leatherback;10884784 wrote:
In course steps:

You need a way to determine for which persons to show messages (Is person B really interested in person A)

Select all 'friends' of person B

Select all actions of all the friend where timestamp > a certain time

Not too sure what you mean!

Could you expand?

CRichardson

Any other suggestions?

All welcomed.

leatherback

Without wiritng out the module I cannot expand. What specifically do you not understand? Note that such a system is very dependent on how you would like to decide what to show. In any case.. You need to track the time of changes and you need to track 'friends'. When a person logs in, you select all the records that were modified in a certain timeperiod on sections maintained by that users' friend