Messaging system

Wednesday 11 October 2006 1:47:30 am

Hi there

I need to implement a system where users can send each other messages similar to emails. User 1 selects the recipient(s) from a list of users, creates his message and sends it. Once the recipient(s) log in, they see some kind of notification that they have received a message and then they can send a reply.

The initial message might be sent to multiple recipients, all the later messages are one-to-one only. I also need some way to create some kind of thread so the messages must be connected somehow.

An example usage would be that user 1 sends a message to all others and asks who can help him with a certain problem. Once the interested people reply the rest of their messages are private between them (and my logging system).

I am not sure how to implement this. I have the vague notion that notifications might be useful but I don't have much information about notifications. I also thought about having an own forum for each thread but here I don't know how to send the initial message to several recipients and keeping the rest private.

Any tips or hints?

Thanks in advance

Claudia

Wednesday 11 October 2006 2:23:14 am

Hi Lukasz

Thanks for the quick reply. It looks like I was to fixated on using existing EZ components - your way looks much easier.

In regards to:

Proper way is to use eZ publish persisting object and fetch functions for database communication instead of direct SQL queries.

Do you know of any tutorial on how to do this? The ezpersistentobject class is nicely documented and there are a lot of examples in EZ but I wouldn't mind having an fully explained working example as I am not sure I understand everything in there (e.g how to fetch data from two related tables using the persistant object)

Greetings from Luxembourg

Claudia