A very long time I didn’t post a code here. I recently implemented “Web Push Notification” on a few websites using the very popular OneSignal cross platform service. To reuse the method on multiple sites, I simplified the code that handles message sending in a function. In this post I just wanted to share that for my readers.
function osAddPush($oneSignalConfig)
{
if (sizeof($oneSignalConfig)) {
$notifTitle = html_entity_decode($oneSignalConfig['title'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
$notifContent = html_entity_decode($oneSignalConfig['brief'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
$includedSegments = array('All');
$fields = array(
'app_id' => $oneSignalConfig['app_id'],
'headings' => array("en" => $notifTitle),
'included_segments' => $includedSegments,
'isAnyWeb' => true,
'url' => $oneSignalConfig['url'],
'contents' => array("en" => $notifContent)
);
$thumbnailUrl = $oneSignalConfig['image_url'];
if (!empty($thumbnailUrl)) {
$fields['chrome_web_image'] = $thumbnailUrl;
}
$logoUrl = $oneSignalConfig['logo_url'];
if (!empty($logoUrl)) {
$fields['chrome_web_icon'] = $logoUrl;
}
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://onesignal.com/api/v1/notifications");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json',
'Authorization: Basic ' . $oneSignalConfig['app_rest_api_key']));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($fields));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $response;
}
return null;
} // EO_Fn
Its the function that made my reuse easier.
Now, to make it even easier, let me add an example call on that function:
$oneSignalConfig = array(
'app_id' => 'YOUR_ONE_SIGNAL_APP_ID', // replace with your app_id
'app_rest_api_key' => 'YOUR_ONE_SIGNAL_REST_API_KEY', // replace with your app_rest_api_key
'title' => 'Testing the OneSignal Push',
'brief' => 'Write your brief or summary content here. This will be shown below the title.',
'url' => 'CONTENT_URL', // URL of the page/post that you're pushing for
'image_url' => 'CONTENT_IMAGE_URL',
'logo_url' => 'LOGO_URL', // logo of the company/website
);
// now do the call
osAddPush($oneSignalConfig);
Replace with your own values and make sure you tested it more than once before announcing it for public.
My next post will be a step by step guideline to integrate OneSignal notifications on any website.
Thanks for reading!
