Index

• Introduction
• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
• Disable Notification

Introduction

This can be used as an alternative of pusher for message broadcasting.

This package is being used in our internal projects. It is still in beta testing. For this reason we did not publish this package in packagist.

This package is dependent on laravel-notification-channels/fcm and kreait/laravel-firebase. So for details please checkout those documentation.

Installation

To use this package in your project please follow the bellow instructions.

• Copy the bellow code to add this repository to your composer.json.

    "repositories": [
        ....
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/virtunus/frdb-notification.git"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "virtunus/frdb-notification": "dev-master"
    }
  

  Checkout to know more about composer repository.

• Now update your composer by running composer update command at your project terminal.

Configuration

In order to access a Firebase project and its related services using a server SDK, requests must be authenticated. For server-to-server communication this is done with a Service Account.

The package uses auto discovery for the default project to find the credentials needed for authenticating requests to the Firebase APIs by inspecting certain environment variables and looking into Google's well known path(s).

If you don't already have generated a Service Account, you can do so by following the instructions from the official documentation pages at https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup#initialize_the_sdk.

Once you have downloaded the Service Account JSON file, you can configure the package by specifying environment variables starting with FIREBASE_ in your .env file. Usually, the following are required for the package to work:

# relative or full path to the Service Account JSON file
FIREBASE_CREDENTIALS=
# You can find the database URL for your project at
# https://console.firebase.google.com/project/_/database
FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL=https://<your-project>.firebaseio.com

For further configuration, please see config/firebase.php. You can modify the configuration by copying it to your local config directory or by defining the environment variables used in the config file:

# Laravel
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Kreait\Laravel\Firebase\ServiceProvider" --tag=config

# Lumen
mkdir -p config
cp vendor/kreait/laravel-firebase/config/firebase.php config/firebase.php

This configuration is copied from https://github.com/kreait/laravel-firebase#configuration

Usage

Just return FrdbChannel::class from via method in your notification class.

The sample notification class:

<?php

namespace App\Notifications;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
use Virtunus\FrdbNotification\FrdbChannel;

class SampleNotification extends Notification
{
    /**
    * Get the notification's delivery channels.
    *
    * @param  mixed  $notifiable
    * @return array
    */
    public function via($notifiable)
    {
        return ['database', 'mail', FrdbChannel::class];
    }

    /**
    * Get the array representation of the notification.
    *
    * @param  mixed  $notifiable
    * @return array
    */
    public function toArray($notifiable)
    {
        return [
            'message' => 'toArray method was called',
        ];
    }
}

By default the reference will be the namespace of the notification class, In this case /App/Notifications/SampleNotification/{notifiable-id}.

You can customize the default behaviour as follows

<?php

namespace App\Notifications;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
use Virtunus\FrdbNotification\FrdbChannel;

class SampleNotification extends Notification
{
    /**
    * Get the notification's delivery channels.
    *
    * @param  mixed  $notifiable
    * @return array
    */
    public function via($notifiable)
    {
        return [FrdbChannel::class];
    }

    /**
    * Get the array representation of the notification.
    *
    * @param  mixed  $notifiable
    * @return array
    */
    public function toArray($notifiable)
    {
        return [
            'message' => 'toArray method was called',
        ];
    }

    /**
    * Get the method to store data in firebase realtime db
    * 
    * @param  mixed  $notifiable
    * @return array
    */
    public function frdbStoreMethod(): string
    {
        return 'push';
    }

    /**
    * Get the firebase realtime database representation of the notification.
    *
    * @param  mixed  $notifiable
    * @return array
    */
    public function toFrdb($notifiable)
    {
        return [
            'message' => 'toFrdb method was called',
        ];
    }

    /**
    * Get the reference
    *
    * @param  mixed  $notifiable
    * @return array
    */
    public function frdbReference($notifiable): string
    {
        return '/firebase-database-ref';
    }
}

The default store method this set. The supported store methods are set, push, delete etc. To know more details checkout saving data.

Disable Notification

Sometimes you may wish to disable firebase notification specially in development environment. Just set false to the FIREBASE_NOTIFICATION_ENABLED environment variable as:

FIREBASE_NOTIFICATION_ENABLED=false