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Yii Project Blueprints

By : Charles R. Portwood ll
Book Image

Yii Project Blueprints

By: Charles R. Portwood ll

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Yii Project Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Creating a Microblogging Platform

For our next project, we will be developing a scalable microblogging platform similar to Twitter. This platform will allow users to share content with others, mention other users in their share, and view a timeline of their shares. Additionally, users will be able to register, manage, and change certain account details such as their e-mail address and password. Finally, our platform will enable users to share content with other external social networks such as Twitter.

By the end of this chapter, we'll have a social network that will allow us to share content and manage our accounts, as shown in the following screenshot:

Our users will also have the ability to directly reply to and share individual posts that they make, as shown in the following screenshot: