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January 18, 2022 09:28 pm GMT

Send push notifications from Laravel to IOS & Android

In this article, we will see how send push notifications from Laravel app to IOS & Android apps using FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging).

Prerequisites:

A Laravel project
Firebase account
Create a new app in Firebase

Step 1: Get fcm_token from Firebase

Click on app settings the choose project settings

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Then from tabs go to Cloud Messaging and you will get the token there. Copy it.

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Step 2: Create Config file

Now in your Laravel project go to Config directory & create a new file called fcm.php as follows:

<?php// config/fcm.phpreturn [    'fcm_token' => "AAAA6ll7Hs4:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",];

As you see here you should putt the token that you get from DCM dashboard here.

Step 3: Add a column in users table

Now got to users migration & add a new column fcm_token:

Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {    $table->id();    .....    $table->string('fcm_token')->nullable();    $table->timestamps();});

What is the benefit of this column?

Each device should have one token, so ISO & Android should install SDK of Firebase on the app and each time a new user joins your app he should generate a token for the user device then send it to your API as a Backend to save this token in the user's table.

I prefer the way is when any user register in your apps the mobile developer send me a token of this user and I just store it with user's information.

Step 4: Make services folder

In the app directory create a new folder called Services and inside this folder create a file called FCM Service.php contains:

<?phpnamespace App\Services;class FCMService{     public static function send($token, $notification, $data)    {        $fields = [            "to" => $token,            "priority" => 10,            'notification' => $notification,            'data' => $data,            'vibrate' => 1,            'sound' => 1        ];        $headers = [            'accept: application/json',            'Content-Type: application/json',            'Authorization: key=' . config('fcm.token')        ];        $ch = curl_init();        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send');        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($fields));        $result = curl_exec($ch);        curl_close($ch);        return $result;    }}

Step 5: Send notifications to apps

Now in your controller, you can use FCMService class to send notifications to apps, in the case I have UserController the code going to be as follows:

<?phpnamespace App\Http\Controllers;use App\Models\User;use App\Services\FCMService;use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;class UserController extends Controller {    public function sendNotificationrToUser($id)    {       // get a user to get the fcm_token that already sent.               from mobile apps        $user = User::findOrFail($id);      FCMService::send(          $user->fcm_token,          [              'title' => 'your title',              'body' => 'your body',          ],          [            'message' => 'Extra Notification Data'          ],      );    }}

Extra stuff

1 - If you want to send an image with the notification you can easily do it with store the image in a place( your server or something like S3 from AWS) then get the full path of an image and add with the second array of notification as follow:

 // store the image & get the URL `$image_url` FCMService::send(    $user->fcm_token,    [        'title' => 'your title',        'body' => 'your body',        'image' => $image_url    ],);

2- If you want to send a notifications to all users that you have from your admin panel or somewhere, you need use a queue job especially if you have a large amount of users in your database.

That it


Original Link: https://dev.to/rabeeaali/send-push-notifications-from-laravel-to-ios-android-29b4

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