Follow feature extension

Question

Is there a yii extension (or anything similar) that allows "following" feature like the one on yiiframework website ?

It was mentioned here: linky

Answer 1

I do not know about any extension for this case. But it is easily implementable. I can give you an idea to implement this feature.

First create a table which holds the following column: for example(tbl_followers)

• id
• User ID
• Page ID (It can be different, You may have an extension page so page ID will be your extension page id)
• date (or any additional columns)

Now, You can hold all users who want to follow your page. This is possible to insert into into mentioned table by clicking on follow link for example.

Probably, You might have an action for sending post to your page(for instance: actionCreatePost). By using Yii's event, create an event onCreatePost() and in this method select all all subscribed users from your table (tbl_followers) and send an email to user's email address.

This is completely an idea. You can do different :)