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 sonvq/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' => [
// ...
Sonvq\OneSignal\OneSignalServiceProvider::class
];
Then, register class alias by adding an entry in aliases section, (*5)
'aliases' => [
// ...
'OneSignal' => Sonvq\OneSignal\OneSignalFacade::class
];
Finally, from the command line again, run, (*6)
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=config
to publish the default configuration file.
This will publish a configuration file named onesignal.php
which includes your OneSignal authorization keys., (*7)
Note: If the previous command does not publish the config file successfully, please check the steps involving providers and aliases in the config/app.php
file., (*8)
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., (*9)
Usage
Sending a Notification To All Users
You can easily send a message to all registered users with the command, (*10)
OneSignal::sendNotificationToAll("Some Message", $heading = null, $data = null, $url = null, $buttons = null, $schedule = null);
$url
, $data
, $buttons
and $schedule
fields are exceptional. If you provide a $url
parameter, users will be redirecting to that url., (*11)
Sending a Notification To A Specific User
After storing a user's tokens in a table, you can simply send a message with, (*12)
OneSignal::sendNotificationToUser("Some Message", $userId, $heading = null, $data = null, $url = null, $buttons = null, $schedule = null);
$userId
is the user's unique id where he/she is registered for notifications. Read https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/web-push-tagging-guide for additional details.
$url
, $data
, $buttons
and $schedule
fields are exceptional. If you provide a $url
parameter, users will be redirecting to that url., (*13)
Sending a Notification To Segment
You can simply send a notification to a specific segment with, (*14)
OneSignal::sendNotificationToSegment("Some Message", $segment, $data = null, $url = null, $buttons = null, $schedule = null);
$url
, $data
, $buttons
and $schedule
fields are exceptional. If you provide a $url
parameter, users will be redirecting to that url., (*15)
Sending a Custom Notification
You can send a custom message with, (*16)
OneSignal::sendNotificationCustom($parameters);
### Sending a Custom Notification
Sending a async Custom Notification
You can send a async custom message with, (*17)
OneSignal::async()->sendNotificationCustom($parameters);
Please refer to https://documentation.onesignal.com/reference for all customizable parameters., (*18)