PHP Backend Sample
Send push notifications to your users with this PHP code sample.
The following code will send a push notification to devices with {message: "Hello World!"} as the payload.
// Require Pushy API Class
require('pushy.php');
// Payload data you want to send to devices
$data = array('message' => 'Hello World!');
// The recipient device tokens
$to = array('cdd92f4ce847efa5c7f');
// Optionally, send to a publish/subscribe topic instead
// $to = '/topics/news';
// Optional push notification options (such as iOS notification fields)
$options = array(
'notification' => array(
'badge' => 1,
'sound' => 'ping.aiff',
'title' => 'Test Notification',
'body' => "Hello World \xE2\x9C\x8C"
)
);
// Send it with Pushy
PushyAPI::sendPushNotification($data, $to, $options);Create a file named pushy.php and paste the following code inside it:
class PushyAPI {
static public function sendPushNotification($data, $to, $options) {
// Insert your Secret API Key here
$apiKey = 'SECRET_API_KEY';
// Default post data to provided options or empty array
$post = $options ?: array();
// Set notification payload and recipients
$post['to'] = $to;
$post['data'] = $data;
// Set Content-Type header since we're sending JSON
$headers = array(
'Content-Type: application/json'
);
// Initialize curl handle
$ch = curl_init();
// Set URL to Pushy endpoint
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.pushy.me/push?api_key=' . $apiKey);
// Set request method to POST
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
// Set our custom headers
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
// Get the response back as string instead of printing it
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Set post data as JSON
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($post, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE));
// Actually send the push
$result = curl_exec($ch);
// Display errors
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo curl_error($ch);
}
// Close curl handle
curl_close($ch);
// Attempt to parse JSON response
$response = @json_decode($result);
// Throw if JSON error returned
if (isset($response) && isset($response->error)) {
throw new Exception('Pushy API returned an error: ' . $response->error);
}
}
}Note: Make sure to replace SECRET_API_KEY with your app's Secret API Key, available in the Pushy Dashboard (Click your app -> API Authentication tab). This is a backend API endpoint. Never expose your application's Secret API Key in your client code.