Parse Push Notifications with PHP

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Translating your command line curl to PHP you get something along the lines of

<?php
$url = 'https://api.parse.com/1/push';
$data = array(
    'channel' => '',
    'type' => 'android',
    'expiry' => 1451606400,
    'data' => array(
        'alert' => 'greetings programs',
    ),
);
$_data = json_encode($data);
$headers = array(
    'X-Parse-Application-Id: ' . $APPLICATION_ID,
    'X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ' . $REST_API_KEY,
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'Content-Length: ' . strlen($_data),
);

$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $_data);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_exec($curl);

UPDATE

<?php

$APPLICATION_ID = "your-app-id";
$REST_API_KEY = "your-api-key";
$MESSAGE = "your-alert-message";

if (!empty($_POST)) {

    $errors = array();
    foreach (array('app' => 'APPLICATION_ID', 'api' => 'REST_API_KEY', 'body' => 'MESSAGE') as $key => $var) {
        if (empty($_POST[$key])) {
            $errors[$var] = true;
        } else {
            $$var = $_POST[$key];
        }
    }

    if (!$errors) {
        $url = 'https://api.parse.com/1/push';
        $data = array(
            'channel' => '',
            'type' => 'android',
            'expiry' => 1451606400,
            'data' => array(
                'alert' => $MESSAGE,
            ),
        );
        $_data = json_encode($data);
        $headers = array(
            'X-Parse-Application-Id: ' . $APPLICATION_ID,
            'X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ' . $REST_API_KEY,
            'Content-Type: application/json',
            'Content-Length: ' . strlen($_data),
        );

        $curl = curl_init($url);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $_data);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        $response = curl_exec($curl);
    }
}
?><!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Parse API</title>
</head>
<body>
    <?php if (isset($response)) {
        echo '<h2>Response from Parse API</h2>';
        echo '<pre>' . htmlspecialchars($response) . '</pre>';
        echo '<hr>';
    } elseif ($_POST) {
        echo '<h2>Error!</h2>';
        echo '<pre>';
        var_dump($APPLICATION_ID, $REST_API_KEY, $MESSAGE);
        echo '</pre>';
    } ?>

    <h2>Send Message to Parse API</h2>
    <form id="parse" action="" method="post" accept-encoding="UTF-8">
        <p>
            <label for="app">APPLICATION_ID</label>
            <input type="text" name="app" id="app" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($APPLICATION_ID); ?>">
        </p>
        <p>
            <label for="api">REST_API_KEY</label>
            <input type="text" name="api" id="api" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($REST_API_KEY); ?>">
        </p>
        <p>
            <label for="api">REST_API_KEY</label>
            <textarea name="body" id="body"><?php echo htmlspecialchars($REST_API_KEY); ?></textarea>
        </p>
        <p>
            <input type="submit" value="send">
        </p>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

With this, your unstated question should be answered. If you still can't figure out how to do this, you should seriously consider learning yourself some webdev or switch jobs. This is the most basic thing you can do.

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Author by

Rick de Jong

Updated on June 06, 2022

Comments

Rick de Jong about 2 years
I've use Parse to give my iOS and Android App notifications. But I want to do that from my website.

I've found this in de docs of Parse:
To send a push notification, send a POST request to https://api.parse.com/1/push with the Content-Type header set to application/json. A simple alert can be sent to Android devices on the global broadcast channel using the following command:

curl -X POST \

-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \

-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \

-H "Content-Type: application/json" \

-d '{ "channel": "", \
```
    "type": "android", \
    "expiry": 1451606400, \
    "data": { "alert": "greetings programs" } }' \
```
https://api.parse.com/1/push
Who can help me to make a PHP-file to post this ? Thanks!