Laravel for IOS push notification

Asadut Zaman — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:28:40 +0000

In this post, I will discuss the only Laravel end functionality, assuming you have 'certificate.p12', 'password', and 'app_bundel_id' from Apple

Step 1
If you have 'Certificates.p12' you need to convert this to 'Certificates.pem' file. I have stored my 'Certificates.p12' file in the 'storage' directory.

In .env

APN_ENVIRONMENT=sandbox
APN_CERTIFICATE_PATH=storage/Certificates.p12
APN_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD=123456
APN_APP_BUNDLE_ID=com.btrac.ems

Now run the below comment to your project terminal
openssl pkcs12 -in storage/Certificates.p12 -out storage/Certificates.pem -nodes -clcerts
that command convert my 'Certificates.p12' file into 'Certificates.pem' file

Step 2
Create app/helper.php

<?php

if (! function_exists('createApnPayload')) {
    function createApnPayload($title, $body) {
        return json_encode([
            'aps' => [
                'alert' => [
                    'title' => $title,
                    'body' => $body,
                ],
                'sound' => 'default',
            ],
        ]);
    }
}

if (! function_exists('sendApnNotification')) {
    function sendApnNotification($deviceToken, $payload) {
        $certificatePath = storage_path('Certificates.pem');
        $passphrase = env('APN_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD', ''); // Use the passphrase if set, otherwise empty

        $url = "https://api.sandbox.push.apple.com/3/device/$deviceToken"; // Use 'api.push.apple.com' for production

        $headers = [
            'apns-topic: ' . env('APN_APP_BUNDLE_ID'),
            'Content-Type: application/json',
        ];

        $ch = curl_init();

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, 443);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, $certificatePath);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD, $passphrase);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_0);

        $response = curl_exec($ch);

        if (curl_errno($ch)) {
            throw new Exception('cURL error: ' . curl_error($ch));
        }

        $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

        curl_close($ch);

        if ($httpCode == 200) {
            return 'Notification sent successfully';
        } else {
            return 'Notification failed with HTTP code ' . $httpCode . ' and response ' . $response;
        }
    }
}

Step 3
Create a Controller for example 'NotificationController.php'

public function sendNotification()
    {
        $deviceToken = 'Your_device_token';
        $title = 'Hello';
        $body = 'Hello from the other side';

        $payload = createApnPayload($title, $body);

        try {
            $result = sendApnNotification($deviceToken, $payload);
            return response()->json(['message' => $result]);
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            return response()->json(['error' => 'Notification failed: ' . $e->getMessage()], 500);
        }
    }

Step 4
Make a new route for your notification function in web.php
Route::get('/sendNotification3', [NotificationController::class, 'sendNotification']);

Now you can test the notification functionality form Postman or browser or call the function from any other function depending on your business logic.

Save device token

public function userDeviceToken(Request $request, $profileId)
    {
        $token = $request->device_token;

        $user = User::find($profileId);

        if ($user) {
            $user->device_token = $token;
            $user->save();
            $response = [
                'code' => 200,
                'message' => 'Device token updated successfully',
                'device_token' => $token
            ];
            return response()->json([
                'results' => $response
            ], 200);
        } else {
            return response()->json([
                'results' => [
                    'code' => 404,
                    'message' => 'User not found'
                ]
            ], 404);
        }
    }

Please note that you need to be more careful about error handling since in this post I have used CURL rather than any packages

Create laravel project on Project IDX

Asadut Zaman — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:10:19 +0000

Google has launched a beta version of project IDX, an IDE that works on browsers.

To create a new laravel project click go the idx.google.com and "Select all the templates"

Select Backend > laravel

Give a name to your project

And here you go, your laravel is ready to play

You can share the link that can be accessible over the internet.
The IDX has all the features just like the VS Code

However, IDX is now supporting only one project. Here you can delete share or rename your project

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Laravel for IOS push notification

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