How to Send Web Push Notifications in Laravel 9 using Firebase

Laravel 9 send push notification using google firebase fcm; In this tutorial, we will learn how to send push notification to android and ios mobiles using google firebase fcm in laravel 9 apps.

Sending push notifications to mobile devices are very easy things with laravel. We can use send push notification in android and ios device without using any laravel package.

Laravel 9 Send FCM Push Notification using Firebase Tutorial

Use the following steps to send push notification to android or ios mobile using google firebase fcm in laravel 9 apps:

• Step 1: Create a Helper File
• Step 2: Add Fcm Key in .env
• Step 3: Send Notification

Step 1: Create a Helper File

First of all, Navigate to App directory and inside this directory create a new file new helpers.php.

Then update the following code into your helpers.php file as follow:

app/helpers.php

<?php
 
  function send_notification_FCM($notification_id, $title, $message, $id,$type) {

    $accesstoken = env('FCM_KEY');

    $URL = 'https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send';


        $post_data = '{
            "to" : "' . $notification_id . '",
            "data" : {
              "body" : "",
              "title" : "' . $title . '",
              "type" : "' . $type . '",
              "id" : "' . $id . '",
              "message" : "' . $message . '",
            },
            "notification" : {
                 "body" : "' . $message . '",
                 "title" : "' . $title . '",
                  "type" : "' . $type . '",
                 "id" : "' . $id . '",
                 "message" : "' . $message . '",
                "icon" : "new",
                "sound" : "default"
                },

          }';
        // print_r($post_data);die;

    $crl = curl_init();

    $headr = array();
    $headr[] = 'Content-type: application/json';
    $headr[] = 'Authorization: ' . $accesstoken;
    curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

    curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
    curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headr);

    curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
    curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    $rest = curl_exec($crl);

    if ($rest === false) {
        // throw new Exception('Curl error: ' . curl_error($crl));
        //print_r('Curl error: ' . curl_error($crl));
        $result_noti = 0;
    } else {

        $result_noti = 1;
    }

    //curl_close($crl);
    //print_r($result_noti);die;
    return $result_noti;
}

Step 2: Add Fcm Key in .env

Go to your project root directory and open .env file. Then update fcm key as follow:

FCM_KEY =

Now, you can use your google fcm key as follow

$accesstoken = env('FCM_KEY');

Step 3: Send Notification

Next step, open your controller file and you can call send_notification_FCM($notification_id, $title, $message, $id,$type) from helpers.php with following parameters.

public function notifyUser(Request $request){

   $user = User::where('id', $request->id)->first();

   $notification_id = $user->notification_id;
   $title = "Greeting Notification";
   $message = "Have good day!";
   $id = $user->id;
   $type = "basic";

   $res = send_notification_FCM($notification_id, $title, $message, $id,$type);

   if($res == 1){

      // success code

   }else{

     // fail code
   }
   

}

send_notification_FCM() with following parameter $notification_id, $title, $message, $id,$type. When you want to send push notification to the mobile device, that time you need to call the send_notification_FCM() with specified parameters.

Conclusion

In send push notification in laravel tutorial, you have learned how to send push notification fcm using CURL and helper without using package in laravel.

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