Push Notifications in Laravel with Firebase: A Comprehensive Tutorial

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• how to firebase bulk push notification send ?

  • Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) no longer supports sending bulk notifications using the registration_ids field, as it has been deprecated.

    Instead, you can send notifications one by one to specific devices using their unique device tokens. Alternatively, a more efficient method is to use topics. By subscribing users to a specific topic, you can send notifications to all devices subscribed to that topic with a single request.

    This way, you can effectively manage and deliver notifications to groups of users. If you have any further questions or need more details, feel free to ask!

• how we use image to send

  • You can send image like this:

    $message = CloudMessage::fromArray([
    'notification' => [
    'title' => 'Hello from Firebase!',
    'body' => 'This is a test notification.',
    'image' => 'https://example.com/path-to-your-image.jpg' // Add your image URL here
    ],
    'topic' => 'global'
    ]);

• for ‘firebase_credentials.json’ is not readable error, just add one more ../ to this line :: $firebase = (new Factory)
  ->withServiceAccount(__DIR__.'/../../config/firebase_credentials.json');

  it should be in the end :: $firebase = (new Factory)
  ->withServiceAccount(__DIR__.'/../../../config/firebase_credentials.json');

  • Thanks for bringing it to our notice. We will update it.

• i change the directory path to

  $firebase = (new Factory())
  ->withServiceAccount(storage_path('app/firebase/firebase-credentials.json'));

  but now i am getting SSL error :

  cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate (see https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html) for https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token

  • Do you work on a local machine or a live server?

• Invalid service account: D:\Srushti\work\news-feed\app\Http\Controllers\Admin/../../config/firebase_credentials.json can not be read: SplFileObject::__construct(D:\Srushti\work\news-feed\app\Http\Controllers\Admin/../../config/firebase_credentials.json): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory

  getting this error idk why ? can anyone help

  • I think you may have a path issue. In Windows paths uses the forward slash "\" but in Ubuntu uses the backward slash "/"

• bro what about device id in this updated laravel push notification in firbase you only give code to run but were to generate fcm token for user i think it is not cleared article by you or i didnt get it please try to improve this thanks

  • Ok, You can do this below code.

    
    
    // Your web app's Firebase configuration
    const firebaseConfig = {
    apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    authDomain: "YOUR_PROJECT_ID.firebaseapp.com",
    projectId: "YOUR_PROJECT_ID",
    storageBucket: "YOUR_PROJECT_ID.appspot.com",
    messagingSenderId: "YOUR_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID",
    appId: "YOUR_APP_ID",
    measurementId: "YOUR_MEASUREMENT_ID"
    };

    // Initialize Firebase
    firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
    const messaging = firebase.messaging();
    messaging.requestPermission()
    .then(function() {
    console.log('Notification permission granted.');
    return messaging.getToken();
    })
    .then(function(token) {
    console.log('Device token:', token); // You can get here device token
    })
    .catch(function(err) {
    console.log('Unable to get permission to notify.', err);
    });

    • but where should write this

      • This code should be implemented based on the platform you're using:

        For mobile apps: Place the code at the start of your app, ideally on the initial screen when the app is launched.

        For websites: To receive notifications, include the code at the beginning of your website, preferably in the header or the starting part of your site’s code.

• Hi - very useful article, it made setting this up very easy. But for the specific user case where might we find the "DeviceToken"

  • Ok, You can do this below code.

    
    
    // Your web app's Firebase configuration
    const firebaseConfig = {
    apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    authDomain: "YOUR_PROJECT_ID.firebaseapp.com",
    projectId: "YOUR_PROJECT_ID",
    storageBucket: "YOUR_PROJECT_ID.appspot.com",
    messagingSenderId: "YOUR_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID",
    appId: "YOUR_APP_ID",
    measurementId: "YOUR_MEASUREMENT_ID"
    };

    // Initialize Firebase
    firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
    const messaging = firebase.messaging();
    messaging.requestPermission()
    .then(function() {
    console.log('Notification permission granted.');
    return messaging.getToken();
    })
    .then(function(token) {
    console.log('Device token:', token); // You can get here device token
    })
    .catch(function(err) {
    console.log('Unable to get permission to notify.', err);
    });

• Hey i have done the process you showed. It worked. but i didn't see any notification in my firebase cloud messaging section.
  can you please suggest me anything?

  • You have any device token?
    You can not see the history of the sending notification in Fierbase. You need to manage into your project itself.

• I looked at so many examples, and they were all missing something. Thanks to you, I solved the problem, thank you very much for this informative sharing.

  • Thank you for positive feedback.

• how can we send push to specific user ?

  • You need to pass that user device token to the withTarget method. For example,

    $deviceToken = $user->device_token;
    $message = CloudMessage::withTarget('token', $deviceToken)
    ->withNotification([
    'title' => 'Title',
    'body' => $message,
    ]);

    • How can i attach a custom field like a action_url, as i can send them using a test message on firebase but i can't seem find a way here on how to send them