Notifications

Have an icon in top menu about notifications to user. Can be bound to user, user group or survey.

GUI

• Bell icon
• List of last 5 messages in menu where you can can see which messages are new
• History view of all messages? Grid view.

Usage

Should be possible for the developer to invoke new notification both from PHP and JS?

PHP:

$not = new Notification();
$not->type = 'danger';
$not->message = gT('New info!');
$not->save();

JS:

$.ajax(
  url: 'notification.php',
  data: {
    message: translatedMessageString
  }
).done(function() {
  updateNotifications();
});

Database

New database table required to make notifications persist between login/logout.

Fields:

• id
• entity, like survey, user, ...
• entity_id, survey id, user id, ...
• message, the actual message
• type, success, warning, danger, info
• status, new, read
• created, datetime
• read, datetime