Hi,
I have different type of notifications. (Friend Request, Message, Comment etc..)
I have builded two database. One of them holds the type of notifications. Another one is storing notifications type and the content of notifications.
Here is the problem;
I'm serializing all the content. For example, for comments; user_id,post_id
When i need it, i'm deserializing this informations and put them in a sentences writing to screen also sending mail.
But i have a feeling that this serializing methodology can be problematic for the further..
I really like FuelPHP ORM. I want to use ORM also. But to use it, I have to separate every notification type to its table..
I need your suggestions.
Thank you.
-Tevfik.
Here is the database tables that I wrote;
CREATE TABLE `notification_type` (
`id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`name` varchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
CREATE TABLE `notifications` (
`id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`user_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,
`type_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,
`content` text NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `user_id` (`user_id`),
KEY `type_id` (`type_id`),
CONSTRAINT `notifications_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`) REFERENCES `users` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
CONSTRAINT `notifications_ibfk_2` FOREIGN KEY (`type_id`) REFERENCES `notification_type` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
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