Iteration planning
The goal of this iteration is to create an RSS feed using the content created from our user generated comments. We should allow users to subscribe to a comment feed that spans all projects as well as subscribe to individual project feeds. Luckily, the widget functionality we built previously has the capability to return a list of recent comments across all projects, as well as restrict the data to one specific project. So, we have already coded the appropriate methods to access the needed data. The bulk of this iteration will focus on putting that data in the correct format to be published as an RSS feed, and adding links to our application to allow users to subscribe to these feeds.
The following is a list of high-level tasks we will need to complete in order to achieve these goals:
Download and install Zend Framework into the Yii application
Create a new action in a controller class to respond to the feed request and return the appropriate data in an RSS format
Alter our...