Send push notification using php and ionic alpha push notification

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Send push notification using php and ionic alpha push notification

I have follow the all steps to built simple app in ionic framework from here.And I am using php code for server side to call the ionic API for push notification. I have Used the following code but i am not getting notification in my app , Please suggest the solution.

    <?php
    $androidAppId = "e2c77770";
    $data = array(
      "tokens" => "APA91bF2YePDKxE6K6vZYs2KQ27Z4mdehJg-EaZaPy10w-RHN5RUgC_P6Uie24Qu_M28j9bfZcbU6pu8Awofa8h2G5j9jABnebrVIUgKM5JcZPEJHYVW2NINirAm7VnSqGOrqm4YicAoI9Xiw5zkgTx4edqXIANLEhvqsqSCeq-_gAuzZB8wvrQ",
      "notification" => "Hello World!"
    );
    $data_string = json_encode($data);
    $ch = curl_init('https://push.ionic.io/api/v1/push');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
        'Content-Type: application/json',
        'X-Ionic-Application-Id: '.$androidAppId,
        'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string))
    );

    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    ?>

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Answer 1

I've never dealt with ionic but according to the python example given in http://docs.ionic.io/v1.0/docs/push-sending-push you should add Authorization header to the request.

private_key = YOUR_PRIVATE_API_KEY
b64 = base64.encodestring('%s:' % private_key).replace('\n', '')
#I didn't get why they used colon while encoding the api key??
req.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % b64)

PHP implementation of that python snippet would be like that;

<?php
$yourApiSecret = "YOUR API SECRET";
$androidAppId = "e2c77770";
$data = array(
  "tokens" => "APA91bF2YePDKxE6K6vZYs2KQ27Z4mdehJg-EaZaPy10w-RHN5RUgC_P6Uie24Qu_M28j9bfZcbU6pu8Awofa8h2G5j9jABnebrVIUgKM5JcZPEJHYVW2NINirAm7VnSqGOrqm4YicAoI9Xiw5zkgTx4edqXIANLEhvqsqSCeq-_gAuzZB8wvrQ",
  "notification" => "Hello World!"
);
$data_string = json_encode($data);
$ch = curl_init('https://push.ionic.io/api/v1/push');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'X-Ionic-Application-Id: '.$androidAppId,
    'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string),
    'Authorization: Basic '.base64_encode($yourApiSecret)
    )
);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($result);

Also output of the result may tell you a lot about the status of push notification you want to send.