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 know this is a late Answer, but it may be useful for those who wants to develop similar apps with current FCM format (GCM has been deprecated).
The following PHP code has been used to send topic-wise podcast. All the apps registered with the mentioned channel/topis would receive this Push Notification.

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      $curl_post_body = array('to' => $channel,
        'content_available' => true,
        'notification' => array('click_action' => 'action_open',
                            'body'=> $contentTitle,
                            'title'=>'Title '.$contentCurrentCat. ' Updates' ,
                            'message'=>'44'),
        'data'=> array('click_action' => 'action_open',
                            'body'=>'test',
                            'title'=>'test',
                            'message'=>$catTitleId));

        $headers = array(
        'Content-Type:application/json',
        'Authorization:key='.$fcm_token);

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $service_url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($curl_post_body));

    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    if ($result === FALSE) {
        die('FCM Send Error: ' . curl_error($ch));
        echo 'failure';
    }else{

    echo 'success' .$result;
    }
    curl_close($ch);
    return $result;

}
catch(Exception $e){

    echo 'Message: ' .$e->getMessage();
}
?>