What is receiving push notifications in PHP

Push notifications let your application send real-time updates to users. Implementing them in PHP can help you engage users with timely messages. For example you can send a notification when an order status changes.

Using Operational for push notifications

Operational is a lightweight event tracking service. It can record push notification events from any backend. You can then view these events in a simple dashboard.

Setting up Operational

1. Go to app.operational.co and sign up.
2. Create a new project in the dashboard.
3. Copy your API key from the project settings.
4. Keep the API key safe for your code.

Code example

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

$client = new Client([
  'base_uri' => 'https://api.operational.co',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

$payload = [
  'name' => 'Push notification sent',
  'avatar' => '🔔',
  'content' => 'Sent welcome push to user John Smith'
];

$response = $client->post('/v1/events', [
  'json' => $payload,
]);

echo $response->getStatusCode(), "\n";

This code sends an event to Operational when a push notification is sent. It records the event name, icon, and details in the content field.

Conclusion

Operational can save you time by handling event ingestion. You can view and filter push notification events in a dashboard. Learn more at https://operational.co. Try the playground to copy and paste code snippets.