OneSignal Push Notifications for Laravel 5
Introduction
This is a simple OneSignal wrapper library for Laravel. It simplifies the basic notification flow with the defined methods. You can send a message to all users or you can notify a single user.
Before you start installing this service, please complete your OneSignal setup at https://onesignal.com and finish all the steps that is necessary to obtain an application id and REST API Keys., (*1)
Installation
First, you'll need to require the package with Composer:, (*2)
composer require MichelMelo/onesignal-laravel
Aftwards, run composer update from your command line., (*3)
Then, update config/app.php by adding an entry for the service provider., (*4)
'providers' => [
// ...
MichelMelo\OneSignal\OneSignalServiceProvider::class
];
Then, register class alias by adding an entry in aliases section, (*5)
'aliases' => [
// ...
'OneSignal' => MichelMelo\OneSignal\OneSignalFacade::class
];
Finally, from the command line again, run php artisan vendor:publish to publish the default configuration file.
This will publish a configuration file named onesignal.php which includes your OneSignal authorization keys., (*6)
Configuration
You need to fill in onesignal.php file that is found in your applications config directory.
app_id is your OneSignal App ID and rest_api_key is your REST API Key., (*7)
Usage
Sending a Notification To All Users
You can easily send a message to all registered users with the command, (*8)
OneSignal::sendNotificationToAll("Some Message");
OneSignal::sendNotificationToAll("Some Message", $url);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToAll("Some Message", $url, $data);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToAll("Some Message", $url, $data, $buttons);
$url , $data and $buttons fields are exceptional. If you provide a $url parameter, users will be redirecting to that url., (*9)
Sending a Notification To A Specific User
After storing a user's tokens in a table, you can simply send a message with, (*10)
OneSignal::sendNotificationToUser("Some Message", $userId);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToUser("Some Message", $userId, $url);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToUser("Some Message", $userId, $url, $data);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToUser("Some Message", $userId, $url, $data, $buttons);
$userId is the user's unique id where he/she is registered for notifications. Read https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/website-sdk-api#getUserId for additional details.
$url , $data and $buttons fields are exceptional. If you provide a $url parameter, users will be redirecting to that url., (*11)
Sending a Notification To Segment
You can simply send a notification to a specific segment with, (*12)
OneSignal::sendNotificationToSegment("Some Message", $segment);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToSegment("Some Message", $segment, $url);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToSegment("Some Message", $segment, $url, $data);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToSegment("Some Message", $segment, $url, $data, $buttons);
$url , $data and $buttons fields are exceptional. If you provide a $url parameter, users will be redirecting to that url., (*13)
Sending a Custom Notification
You can send a custom message with, (*14)
OneSignal::sendNotificationCustom($parameters);
Please refer to https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/notifications-create-notification for all customizable parameters., (*15)