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.

Installation

First, you'll need to require the package with Composer:

composer require berkayk/onesignal-laravel

Aftwards, run composer update from your command line.

Then, update config/app.php by adding an entry for the service provider.

'providers' => [
	// ...
	Berkayk\OneSignal\OneSignalServiceProvider::class
];

Then, register class alias by adding an entry in aliases section

'aliases' => [
	// ...
	'OneSignal' => Berkayk\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.

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.

Usage

Sending a Notification To All Users

You can easily send a message to all registered users with the command

OneSignal::sendNotificationToAll("Some Message");
OneSignal::sendNotificationToAll("Some Message", $url);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToAll("Some Message", $url, $data);

$url and $data fields are exceptional. If you provide a $url parameter, users will be redirecting to that url.

Sending a Notification To A Specific User

After storing a user's tokens in a table, you can simply send a message with

OneSignal::sendNotificationToUser("Some Message", $userId);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToUser("Some Message", $userId, $url);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToUser("Some Message", $userId, $url, $data);

$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 and $data fields are exceptional. If you provide a $url parameter, users will be redirecting to that url.

Sending a Notification To Segment

You can simply send a notification to a specific segment with

OneSignal::sendNotificationToSegment("Some Message", $segment);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToSegment("Some Message", $segment, $url);
OneSignal::sendNotificationToSegment("Some Message", $segment, $url, $data);

$url and $data fields are exceptional. If you provide a $url parameter, users will be redirecting to that url.

Sending a Custom Notification

You can send a custom message with

OneSignal::sendNotificationCustom($parameters);

Please refer to https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/notifications-create-notification for all customizable parameters.