Chapter 9. Iteration 6: Adding User Comments

With the implementation of user management in the past two iterations, our Trackstar application is really starting to take shape. The bulk of our primary application feature functionality is now behind us. We can now start to focus on some of the nice-to-have features. The first of these features that we will tackle is the ability for users to leave comments on project issues.

The ability for users to engage in a dialogue about project issues is an important part of what any issue tracking tool should provide. One way to achieve this is to allow users to leave comments directly on the issues. The comments will form a conversation about the issue and provide an immediate, as well as historical context to help track the full lifespan of any issue. We will also use comments to demonstrate using Yii widgets and establishing a portlet model for delivering content to the user (for more information on Portlets, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlet...