GCM with PHP (Google Cloud Messaging)

Question

Update: GCM is deprecated, use FCM

How can I integrate the new Google Cloud Messaging in a PHP backend?

Answer 1

I actually have this working now in a branch in my Zend_Mobile tree: https://github.com/mwillbanks/Zend_Mobile/tree/feature/gcm

This will be released with ZF 1.12, however, it should give you some great examples on how to do this.

Here is a quick demo on how it would work....

setId(time());
$message->addToken('ABCDEF0123456789');
$message->setData(array(
    'foo' => 'bar',
    'bar' => 'foo',
));

$gcm = new Zend_Mobile_Push_Gcm();
$gcm->setApiKey('MYAPIKEY');

$response = false;

try {
    $response = $gcm->send($message);
} catch (Zend_Mobile_Push_Exception $e) {
    // all other exceptions only require action to be sent or implementation of exponential backoff.
    die($e->getMessage());
}

// handle all errors and registration_id's
foreach ($response->getResults() as $k => $v) {
    if ($v['registration_id']) {
        printf("%s has a new registration id of: %s\r\n", $k, $v['registration_id']);
    }
    if ($v['error']) {
        printf("%s had an error of: %s\r\n", $k, $v['error']);
    }
    if ($v['message_id']) {
        printf("%s was successfully sent the message, message id is: %s", $k, $v['message_id']);
    }
}