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Implement Web Push Notification in PHP using W3C provided Notification API

Hi Guys,
I am sharing you the simple steps by which you can broadcast the web push notifications to your subscriber. In this tutorial we are making a subscriber form and saving information using Ajax and PHP and then through a server side code returning response to current logged in user and showing notification to that user.
Following are the steps to build this system


1. Create a database, I am creating db with name 'web_notifications'


Creating subscribers and notifications tables using following sql statements


CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS <code>subscribers</code> (
<code>id</code> int(11) NOT NULL,
<code>name</code> varchar(255) NOT NULL,
<code>email</code> varchar(255) NOT NULL,
<code>createdAt</code> timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

ALTER TABLE <code>subscribers</code> ADD PRIMARY KEY (<code>id</code>);

ALTER TABLE <code>subscribers</code> MODIFY <code>id</code> int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;



CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS <code>notifications</code> (
<code>id</code> int(11) NOT NULL,
<code>to_user</code> int(11) NOT NULL,
<code>title</code> varchar(255) NOT NULL,
<code>body</code> varchar(255) NOT NULL,
<code>url</code> varchar(255) NOT NULL,
<code>is_sent</code> int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
<code>createdAt</code> timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

ALTER TABLE <code>notifications</code> ADD PRIMARY KEY (<code>id</code>);

ALTER TABLE <code>notifications</code> MODIFY <code>id</code> int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;





2. Now create a db_connect.php file with following code


<?php 
session_start();
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "";
$dbname = "web_notifications";

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
?>



3. Create a cookies.js file to read and write browser cookies


function WriteCookie(key,content) {
var now = new Date();
now.setMonth( now.getMonth() + 1 );
document.cookie = key+"=" + escape(content) + ";";
document.cookie = "expires=" + now.toUTCString() + ";"
}

function ReadCookie(key) {
var allcookies = document.cookie;
cookiearray = allcookies.split(';');
var CookieData=Array();
for(var i=0; i<cookiearray.length; i++) {
k = cookiearray[i].split('=')[0];
v = cookiearray[i].split('=')[1];
CookieData[k]=v;
}
return CookieData[key];
}



4. Create a ajax file to read and mark is_sent if any notification foun to be sent in database for that user. create file with name 'fetch_notifications.php' with following content


<?php require 'db_connect.php';

$sql = "SELECT id,title,body,url FROM notifications where to_user='".@$_GET['user_id']."' and is_sent='0' ";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

$data=array();
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
$data[]=$row;

$upd = "update notifications set is_sent='1' where id='".$row['id']."' ";
$conn->query($upd);

}
}

if(count($data)>0)
{
$response=array("status"=>1,"notification"=>$data);
}
else
{
$response=array("status"=>0,"error"=>"No new notification!");
}

echo json_encode($response);

$conn->close();
?>



5. Now code index.php to show subscriber form and on submit insert record into the subscriber table



<?php require 'db_connect.php'; ?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Web Push Notification Demo</title>
<script src="./cookies.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href=" <script src=" <script src=" <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.1.0/css/all.css" integrity="sha384-lKuwvrZot6UHsBSfcMvOkWwlCMgc0TaWr+30HWe3a4ltaBwTZhyTEggF5tJv8tbt" crossorigin="anonymous">
<?php
if(isset($_POST['subscribe_form']))
{
$_SESSION['is_login']=0;
$username=$conn->real_escape_string($_POST['username']);
$useremail=$conn->real_escape_string($_POST['useremail']);


$sql = "INSERT INTO subscribers set name='".$username."',email='".$useremail."' ";
if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
$_SESSION['is_login']=1;
$_SESSION['Uid']= $conn->insert_id;
$_SESSION['Uname']= $username;
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
WriteCookie("Uid","<?php echo $_SESSION['Uid']; ?>");
</script>
<?php
$msg="<p style='color:green'>You have subscribe for push notification succesfully :)</p>";
} else {
$msg="<p style='color:red'>Error in subscribing for notifications</p>";
}


}

?>
<div class="container">
<?php
if(isset($msg) && $msg!='')
{
?>
<br>
<div class="alert alert-info">
<?php echo $msg; ?>
</div>
<?php
}

if(isset($_SESSION['is_login']) && $_SESSION['is_login']==1)
{
?>
<h2>Welcome <?php echo $_SESSION['Uname']; ?></h2>
<script type="text/javascript">

setInterval(function(){
check_notification();
}, 10000);

function check_notification()
{
var Uid=ReadCookie("Uid");
if(Uid!==undefined)
{
$.ajax({url: "fetch_notifications.php?user_id="+Uid, success: function(result){
var response=JSON.parse(result);
if(response.status==1)
{

response=response.notifications;
for (var i = response.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
var url = response[i]['url'];
var noti = new Notification(response[i]['title'], {
icon: 'logo.png', body: response[i]['body'],
});
noti.onclick = function () {
window.open(url);
noti.close();
};

};

}
else{
console.log(response.error);

}

}

});
}
}


</script>
<?php
}
else
{
?>
<h2 class="text-center">Subscribe for Notifications</h2>
<div class="row justify-content-center">
<div class="col-12 col-md-8 col-lg-6 pb-5">

<div class="card border-primary rounded-0">
<div class="card-header p-0">
<div class="bg-info text-white text-center py-2">
<h3><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i> Information</h3>
<p class="m-0">provide your information</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card-body p-3">
<form method="post">
<!--Body-->
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group mb-2">
<div class="input-group-prepend">
<div class="input-group-text"><i class="fa fa-user text-info"></i></div>
</div>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="username" name="username" placeholder="Input Your Name Here" required>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group mb-2">
<div class="input-group-prepend">
<div class="input-group-text"><i class="fa fa-envelope text-info"></i></div>
</div>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="useremail" name="useremail" pattern="[^@\s]+@[^@\s]+\.[^@\s]+" title="Invalid email address" placeholder="[email protected]" required>
</div>
</div>

<div class="text-center">
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe_form" class="btn btn-info btn-block rounded-0 py-2">
</div>
</form>
</div>

</div>



</div>
</div>
<?php }?>
</div>



</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>
<?php
$conn->close();
?>


The frontend of your subscription page (index.php) should look like this:


Subscribing Form to User

Now we are ready to receive notification in frontend, but we still need to create an admin page from where we can send notification to subscriber(s).


6. Create a table for admin user





CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS <code>admin</code> (
<code>id</code> int(11) NOT NULL,
<code>username</code> varchar(255) NOT NULL,
<code>password</code> varchar(255) NOT NULL,
<code>createdAt</code> timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

ALTER TABLE <code>admin</code> ADD PRIMARY KEY (<code>id</code>);

ALTER TABLE <code>admin</code> MODIFY <code>id</code> int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;

INSERT INTO <code>web_notifications</code>.<code>admin</code> (<code>id</code>, <code>username</code>, <code>password</code>, <code>createdAt</code>) VALUES (NULL, 'admin', MD5('123456'), CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);




Following is the code for admin.php to add the notifications to subscriber(s) account also i have inserted following login credentials for admin in admin table:
username:admin
password:123456


7. Now put following code in admin.php


<?php require 'db_connect.php'; ?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>ADMIN PAGE</title>
<link href=" <script src=" <script src="
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.1.0/css/all.css" integrity="sha384-lKuwvrZot6UHsBSfcMvOkWwlCMgc0TaWr+30HWe3a4ltaBwTZhyTEggF5tJv8tbt" crossorigin="anonymous">
<?php
if(isset($_POST['login']))
{
$_SESSION['admin_login']=0;
$username=$conn->real_escape_string($_POST['username']);
$password=$conn->real_escape_string($_POST['password']);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM admin where username='".$username."' and password='".md5($password)."' ";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
$_SESSION['admin_login']=1;
$msg="<p style='color:green'>Admin Logged-in Successfully :)</p>";
}
else {
$msg="<p style='color:red'>INVALID CREDENTIALS FOR ADMIN</p>";
}


}
if(isset($_POST['add_notification']))
{
$title=$conn->real_escape_string($_POST['title']);
$body=$conn->real_escape_string($_POST['body']);
$url=$conn->real_escape_string($_POST['url']);
$users=$_POST['users'];

foreach ($users as $user_id) {
$ins = "insert into notifications set to_user='".$user_id."' , title='".$title."', url='".$url."', body='".$body."' ";
$conn->query($ins);
}
$msg="<p style='color:green'>Notification(s) added to subscribers account.</p>";

}

?>
<div class="container">
<?php
if(isset($msg) && $msg!='')
{
?>
<br>
<div class="alert alert-info">
<?php echo $msg; ?>
</div>
<?php
}

if(isset($_SESSION['admin_login']) && $_SESSION['admin_login']==1)
{
?>
<h2>Welcome Admin, Send notification to Subscriber(s)</h2>

<form method="post">



<div class="form-group">
<label for="sel1">Select Subscriber(s):</label>
<select multiple="multiple" required="required" class="form-control" id="users" name="users[]">
<?php
$sql = "SELECT id,name FROM subscribers";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

$data=array();
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo "<option value='".$row['id']."'>".$row['name']."</option>";
}
}
?>
</select>
</div>

<div class="form-group">
<label for="email">Title</label>
<input type="text" required class="form-control" placeholder="notification title here" name="title" id="title">
</div>

<div class="form-group">
<label for="email">Message</label>
<textarea required class="form-control" placeholder="notification message here" name="body" id="body"></textarea>
</div>

<div class="form-group">
<label for="email">Url</label>
<input type="url" required class="form-control" placeholder="notification landing/click url here" name="url" id="url">
</div>

<input type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-block" name="add_notification" value="Submit" />

</form>


<?php
}
else
{
?>
<h2 class="text-center">ADMINISTRATOR</h2>
<div class="row justify-content-center">
<div class="col-12 col-md-8 col-lg-6 pb-5">

<div class="card border-primary rounded-0">
<div class="card-header p-0">
<div class="bg-info text-white text-center py-2">
<h3><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i> LOGIN</h3>
<p class="m-0">provide admin login credentials</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card-body p-3">
<form method="post">
<!--Body-->
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group mb-2">
<div class="input-group-prepend">
<div class="input-group-text"><i class="fa fa-user text-info"></i></div>
</div>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="username" name="username" placeholder="Input username here" required>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group mb-2">
<div class="input-group-prepend">
<div class="input-group-text"><i class="fa fa-key text-info"></i></div>
</div>
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="password" name="password" placeholder="your password here" required>
</div>
</div>

<div class="text-center">
<input type="submit" value="Login" name="login" class="btn btn-info btn-block rounded-0 py-2">
</div>
</form>
</div>

</div>



</div>
</div>
<?php }?>
</div>



</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>
<?php
$conn->close();
?>


The admin page will ask login credentials first then it will look like following screenshot:

Admin Send Notifiv=cation to subscribers

Now in your project if you open index.php you have a frontend where user will register themselves to receive notifications, and admin.php is your backend where you can send notifications to users or subscribers


If you face any problem in setup this small project please just let me know in the comments below, or by messaging me.
37387 views · 5 years ago
Securing PHP RESTful APIs using Firebase JWT Library

Hello Guys,

In our Last Blog Post, we have created restful apis,But not worked on its security and authentication. Login api can be public but after login apis should be authenticate using any secure token. one of them is JWT, So i am providing the Steps for Create and use JWT Token in our already created API.


Now its time To Implement JWT Authentication IN our Api, So these are the steps to implement it in our already created Apis


Step 1:Install and include Firebase JWT(JSON WEB TOKEN) in our project with following composer command        


 composer require firebase/php-jwt 


include the composer installed packages
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');


use namespace using following:
 use \Firebase\JWT\JWT; 



Step 2: Create a JWT server side using Firebase Jwt Library's encode method in Login action , and return it to Client



Define a private variable named Secret_Key in Class like following:

 private {
$payload = array(
'iss' => $_SERVER['HOST_NAME'],
'exp' => time()+600, 'uId' => $UiD
);
try{
$jwt = JWT::encode($payload, $this->Secret_Key,'HS256'); $res=array("status"=>true,"Token"=>$jwt);
}catch (UnexpectedValueException $e) {
$res=array("status"=>false,"Error"=>$e->getMessage());
}
return $res;
}


In our login action , if the user has been logged in successfully then with the status,_data_ and message just replace the login success code with following code:

$return['status']=1;
$return['_data_']=$UserData[0];
$return['message']='User Logged in Successfully.';

$jwt=$obj->generateToken($UserData[0]['id']);
if($jwt['status']==true)
{
$return['JWT']=$jwt['Token'];
}
else{
unset($return['_data_']);
$return['status']=0;
$return['message']='Error:'.$jwt['Error'];
}





Step 3: Now with every request after login should have the JWT token in its Post(even we can receive it in get or authentication header also but here we are receiving it in post)



No afetr successfully login you will get the JWt Token in your response,Just add that Token with every post request of after login api calls. So we will do it using postman, Find the screenshot 1 for checking the JWT Token is coming in login api response

JWT DEMO LOGIN API RESPONSE


Step 4:After reciving the JWt in every after login api call, we need to check whether the token is fine using JWT decode method in After login Apis like
UserBlogs
is a After login Api, So for verify that we are creating Authencate method in class like following:


 public function Authenticate($JWT,$Curret_User_id)
{
try {
$decoded = JWT::decode($JWT,$this->Secret_Key, array('HS256'));
$payload = json_decode(json_encode($decoded),true);

if($payload['uId'] == $Curret_User_id) {
$res=array("status"=>true);
}else{
$res=array("status"=>false,"Error"=>"Invalid Token or Token Exipred, So Please login Again!");
}
}catch (UnexpectedValueException $e) {
$res=array("status"=>false,"Error"=>$e->getMessage());
}
return $res;

}


Step 5: Cross check the response returned by Authenticate method in
UserBlogs
Action of api , replace the
UserBlogs
Action inner content with following code:


 if(isset($_POST['Uid']))
{

$resp=$obj->Authenticate($_POST['JWT'],$_POST['Uid']);
if($resp['status']==false)
{
$return['status']=0;
$return['message']='Error:'.$resp['Error'];
}
else{
$blogs=$obj->get_all_blogs($_POST['Uid']);
if(count($blogs)>0)
{
$return['status']=1;
$return['_data_']=$blogs;
$return['message']='Success.';
}
else
{
$return['status']=0;
$return['message']='Error:Invalid UserId!';
}
}
}
else
{
$return['status']=0;
$return['message']='Error:User Id not provided!';
}


Ah great its time to check out the UserBlogs Api, please find the screenshoot for that, Remember we need to put the JWt Token in POST Parameter as we have already recived that Value in Login Api call.

JWT DEMO Authentication in userBlogs API Call

Now if you want to verify that token is expiring in given time(10 minutes after generation time/login time), i am just clicking the same api with same token after 10 minutes and you can see there will not return any data and it is returning status false with following message :


JWT DEMO Authentication in userBlogs API Call


Also if you want to eloborate it more then i suggest you to try with modify Uid value with same token , you will another authentication issue and also if you modify the JWT token also then also you will not get the desired result and get authentication Issue

Thanks for reading out if you want the complete code of this file then please find following:
<?php 
header("Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8");
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
use \Firebase\JWT\JWT;

class DBClass {

private $host = "localhost";
private $username = "root";
private $password = ""; private $database = "news";

public $connection;

private $Secret_Key="*$%43MVKJTKMN$#";
public function connect(){

$this->connection = null;

try{
$this->connection = new PDO("mysql:host=" . $this->host . ";dbname=" . $this->database, $this->username, $this->password);
$this->connection->exec("set names utf8");
}catch(PDOException $exception){
echo "Error: " . $exception->getMessage();
}

return $this->connection;
}

public function login($email,$password){

if($this->connection==null)
{
$this->connect();
}

$query = "SELECT id,name,email,createdAt,updatedAt from users where email= ? and password= ?";
$stmt = $this->connection->prepare($query);
$stmt->execute(array($email,md5($password)));
$ret= $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
return $ret;
}

public function get_all_blogs($Uid){

if($this->connection==null)
{
$this->connect();
}

$query = "SELECT b.*,u.id as Uid,u.email as Uemail,u.name as Uname from blogs b join users u on u.id=b.user_id where b.user_id= ?";
$stmt = $this->connection->prepare($query);
$stmt->execute(array($Uid));
$ret= $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
return $ret;
}

public function response($array)
{
echo json_encode($array);
exit;
}

public function generateToken($UiD)
{
$payload = array(
'iss' => $_SERVER['HOST_NAME'],
'exp' => time()+600, 'uId' => $UiD
);
try{
$jwt = JWT::encode($payload, $this->Secret_Key,'HS256'); $res=array("status"=>true,"Token"=>$jwt);
}catch (UnexpectedValueException $e) {
$res=array("status"=>false,"Error"=>$e->getMessage());
}
return $res;
}

public function Authenticate($JWT,$Current_User_id)
{
try {
$decoded = JWT::decode($JWT,$this->Secret_Key, array('HS256'));
$payload = json_decode(json_encode($decoded),true);

if($payload['uId'] == $Current_User_id) {
$res=array("status"=>true);
}else{
$res=array("status"=>false,"Error"=>"Invalid Token or Token Exipred, So Please login Again!");
}
}catch (UnexpectedValueException $e) {
$res=array("status"=>false,"Error"=>$e->getMessage());
}
return $res;

}
}

$return=array();
$obj = new DBClass();
if(isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action']!='')
{
if($_GET['action']=="login")
{
if(isset($_POST['email']) && isset($_POST['password']))
{
$UserData=$obj->login($_POST['email'],$_POST['password']);
if(count($UserData)>0)
{
$return['status']=1;
$return['_data_']=$UserData[0];
$return['message']='User Logged in Successfully.';

$jwt=$obj->generateToken($UserData[0]['id']);
if($jwt['status']==true)
{
$return['JWT']=$jwt['Token'];
}
else{
unset($return['_data_']);
$return['status']=0;
$return['message']='Error:'.$jwt['Error'];
}

}
else
{
$return['status']=0;
$return['message']='Error:Invalid Email or Password!';
}
}
else
{
$return['status']=0;
$return['message']='Error:Email or Password not provided!';
}
}
elseif($_GET['action']=="UserBlogs")
{
if(isset($_POST['Uid']))
{

$resp=$obj->Authenticate($_POST['JWT'],$_POST['Uid']);
if($resp['status']==false)
{
$return['status']=0;
$return['message']='Error:'.$resp['Error'];
}
else{
$blogs=$obj->get_all_blogs($_POST['Uid']);
if(count($blogs)>0)
{
$return['status']=1;
$return['_data_']=$blogs;
$return['message']='Success.';
}
else
{
$return['status']=0;
$return['message']='Error:Invalid UserId!';
}
}
}
else
{
$return['status']=0;
$return['message']='Error:User Id not provided!';
}
}
}
else
{
$return['status']=0;
$return['message']='Error:Action not provided!';
}
$obj->response($return);
$obj->connection=null;
?>

11941 views · 5 years ago
Five Composer Tips Every PHP Developer Should Know

Composer is the way that that PHP developers manage libraries and their dependencies. Previously, developers mainly stuck to existing frameworks. If you were a Symfony developer, you used Symfony and libraries built around it. You didn’t dare cross the line to Zend Framework. These days however, developers focus less on frameworks, and more on the libraries they need to build the project they are working on. This decoupling of projects from frameworks is largely possible because of Composer and the ecosystem that has built up around it.

Like PHP, Composer is easy to get started in, but complex enough to take time and practice to master. The Composer manual does a great job of getting you up and running quickly, but some of the commands are involved enough so that many developers miss some of their power because they simply don’t understand.

I’ve picked out five commands that every user of Composer should master. In each section I give you a little insight into the command, how it is used, when it is used and why this one is important.

1: Require

Sample:

$ composer require monolog/monolog


Require is the most common command that most developers will use when using Composer. In addition to the vendor/package, you can also specify a version number to load along with modifiers. For instance, if you want version 1.18.0 of monolog specifically and never want the update command to update this, you would use this command.

$ composer require monolog/monolog:1.18.0


This command will not grab the current version of monolog (currently 1.18.2) but will instead install the specific version 1.18.0.

If you always want the most recent version of monolog greater than 1.8.0 you can use the > modifier as shown in this command.

$ composer require monolog/monolog:>1.18.0


If you want the latest in patch in your current version but don’t want any minor updates that may introduce new features, you can specify that using the tilde.

$ composer require monolog/monolog:~1.18.0


The command above will install the latest version of monolog v1.18. Updates will never update beyond the latest 1.18 version.

If you want to stay current on your major version but never want to go above it you can indicate that with the caret.

$ composer require monolog/monolog:^1.18.0


The command above will install the latest version of monolog 1. Updates continue to update beyond 1.18, but will never update to version 2.

There are other options and flags for require, you can find the complete documentation of the command here.

2: Install a package globally

The most common use of Composer is to install and manage a library within a given project. There are however, times when you want to install a given library globally so that all of your projects can use it without you having to specifically require it in each project. Composer is up to the challenge with a modifier to the require command we discussed above, global. The most common use of this is when you are using Composer to manage packages like PHPUnit.

$ composer global require "phpunit/phpunit:^5.3.*"


The command above would install PHPUnit globally. It would also allow it to be updated throughout the 5.0.0 version because we specified ~5.3.* as the version number. You should be careful in installing packages globally. As long as you do not need different versions for different projects you are ok. However, should you start a project and want to use PHPUnit 6.0.0 (when it releases) but PHPUnit 6 breaks backwards compatibility with the PHPUnit 5.* version, you would have trouble. Either you would have to stay with PHPUnit 5 for your new project, or you would have to test all your projects to make sure that your Unit Tests work after upgrading to PHPUnit 6.

Globally installed projects are something to be thought through carefully. When in doubt, install the project locally.

3: Update a single library with Composer

One of the great powers of Composer is that developers can now easily keep their dependencies up-to-date. Not only that, as we discussed in tip #1, each developer can define exactly what “up-to-date” means for them. With this simple command, Composer will check all of your dependencies in a project and download/install the latest applicable versions.

$ composer update


What about those times when you know that a new version of a specific package has released and you want it, but nothing else updated. Composer has you covered here too.

$ composer update monolog/monolog


This command will ignore everything else, and only update the monolog package and it’s dependencies.

It’s great that you can update everything, but there are times when you know that updating one or more of your packages is going to break things in a way that you aren’t ready to deal with. Composer allows you the freedom to cherry-pick the packages that you want to update, and leave the rest for a later time.

4: Don’t install dev dependencies

In a lot of projects I am working on, I want to make sure that the libraries I download and install are working before I start working with them. To this end, many packages will include things like Unit Tests and documentation. This way I can run the unit Tests on my own to validate the package first. This is all fine and good, except when I don’t want them. There are times when I know the package well enough, or have used it enough, to not have to bother with any of that.

Many packages create a distribution package that does not contain tests or docs. (The League of Extraordinary Packages does this by default on all their packages.) If you specify the --prefer-dist flag, Composer will look for a distribution file and use it instead of pulling directly from github. Of course if you want want to make sure you get the full source and all the artifacts, you can use the --prefer-src flag.

5: Optimize your autoload

Regardless of whether you --prefer-dist or --prefer-source, when your package is incorporated into your project with require, it just adds it to the end of your autoloader. This isn’t always the best solution. Therefore Composer gives us the option to optimize the autoloader with the --optimize switch. Optimizing your autoloader converts your entire autoloader into classmaps. Instead of the autoloader having to use file_exists() to locate a file, Composer creates an array of file locations for each class. This can speed up your application by as much as 30%.

$ composer dump-autoload --optimize


The command above can be issued at any time to optimize your autoloader. It’s a good idea to execute this before moving your application into production.

$ composer require monolog/monolog:~1.18.0 -o


You can also use the optimize flag with the require command. Doing this every time you require a new package will keep your autoloader up-to-date. That having said, it’s still a good idea to get in the habit of using the first command as a safety net when you roll to production, just to make sure.

BONUS: Commit your composer.lock

After you have installed your first package with composer, you now have two files in the root of your project, composer.json and composer.lock. Of the two, composer.lock is the most important one. It contains detailed information about every package and version installed. When you issue a composer install in a directory with a composer.lock file, composer will install the exact same packages and versions. Therefore, by pulling a git repo on a production server will replicate the exact same packages in production that were installed in development. Of course the corollary of this is that you never want to commit your vendor/ directory. Since you can recreate it exactly, there is no need to store all of that code in your repo.

It is recommended that also commit your composer.json. When you check out your repo into production and do an install, composer will use the composer.lock instead of the composer.json when present. This means that your production environment is setup exactly like your development environment.
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Laravel Eloquent Relationship Part 1

Laravel introduces eloquent relationships from laravel 5.0 onwards. We all know, while we creating an application we all have foreign keys. Each table will be connected to some other. Eloquent make easy to connect each tables easily. Here we will One to one, one to many and many to many relationships. Here we will see three types of relationships,
   
. One to one relationships
    . One to many relationships
    . Many to many relationships

Why Eloquent Relationships

Here we have 2 tables, students and marks, so for join each table,

$student = student::join(‘marks’,’marks.student_id,’=’,students.id’)->where(‘students.id’,’1’)->get();

dd($student);



the above query is to long, so when we connect more tables its too tough we will be having a big query and complicated.



Model Query using Relationships


$student_marks = student::find(1);

dd($student_marks->mark1);



The above example is a simple example of eloquent relationships. We can reduce the first query into a simple one.





ONE TO ONE RELATIOSHIPS

Here we are creating 2 tables:
* Users
* Phones

Now we can see one to one relationships using hasone() and belongsto().

We need to create table using migrations



Create migrations


users table will be created by using


Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {

$table->increments('id');

$table->string('name');

$table->string('email')->unique();

$table->string('password');

$table->rememberToken();

$table->timestamps();

});


Phones table will be created by


Schema::create('phones', function (Blueprint $table) {

$table->increments('id');

$table->integer('user_id')->unsigned();

$table->string('phone');

$table->timestamps();

$table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users')

->onDelete('cascade');

});



After that we need to create model for each tables, as we all know if the table name is laravel table name will be ending with ‘s’ and model name will be without ‘s’ of the same table name.



User model



<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;



class User extends Authenticatable

{

use Notifiable;





protected $fillable = [

'name', 'email', 'password',

];





protected $hidden = [

'password', 'remember_token',

];





public function phone()

{

return $this->hasOne('App\Phone');

}

}



Phone Model



<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;



class Phone extends Model

{



public function user()

{

return $this->belongsTo('App\User');

}

}



For Creating records



$user = User::find(1);

$phone = new Phone;

$phone->phone = '9080054945';

$user->phone()->save($phone);



$phone = Phone::find(1);

$user = User::find(10);

$phone->user()->associate($user)->save();



Now we can get our records by


$phone = User::find(1)->phone;

dd($phone);



$user = Phone::find(1)->user;

dd($user);





ONE TO MANY RELATIONSHIPS

Here we will use hasMany() and belongsTo() for relationships

Now we are creating two tables, posts and comments, we will be having a foreign key towards posts table.


Migrations for posts and comments table


Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {

$table->increments('id');

$table->string("name");

$table->timestamps();

});



Schema::create('comments', function (Blueprint $table) {

$table->increments('id');

$table->integer('post_id')->unsigned();

$table->string("comment");

$table->timestamps();

$table->foreign('post_id')->references('id')->on('posts')

->onDelete('cascade');

});



Now we will create Post Model and Comment Model



Post Model



<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;



class Post extends Model

{



public function comments()

{

return $this->hasMany(Comment::class);

}

}



Comment Model



<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;



class Comment extends Model

{



public function post()

{

return $this->belongsTo(Post::class);

}

}



Now we can create records


$post = Post::find(1);

$comment = new Comment;

$comment->comment = "Hi Harikrishnan";

$post = $post->comments()->save($comment);

$post = Post::find(1);



$comment1 = new Comment;

$comment1->comment = "How are You?";

$comment2 = new Comment;

$comment2->comment = "Where are you?";

$post = $post->comments()->saveMany([$comment1, $comment2]);



$comment = Comment::find(1);

$post = Post::find(2);

$comment->post()->associate($post)->save();



Now we can get records


$post = Post::find(1);

$comments = $post->comments;

dd($comments);



$comment = Comment::find(1);

$post = $comment->post;

dd($post);



MANY TO MANY RELATIONSHIPS

Many to many is little bit different and complicated than the above two.



In this example, I will create users, roles, and role, users_tables, here each table will be connected each other using the foreign keys.



Using belongsToMany() we will use see a demo of Many to many relationship



Create Migrations



Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {

$table->increments('id');

$table->string('name');

$table->string('email')->unique();

$table->string('password');

$table->rememberToken();

$table->timestamps();

});



Schema::create('roles', function (Blueprint $table) {

$table->increments('id');

$table->string('name');

$table->timestamps();

});



Schema::create('role_user', function (Blueprint $table) {

$table->integer('user_id')->unsigned();

$table->integer('role_id')->unsigned();

$table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users')

->onDelete('cascade');

$table->foreign('role_id')->references('id')->on('roles')

->onDelete('cascade');

});



Create Models



User Model


<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;



class User extends Authenticatable

{

use Notifiable;





protected $fillable = [

'name', 'email', 'password',

];





protected $hidden = [

'password', 'remember_token',

];





public function roles()

{

return $this->belongsToMany(Role::class, 'role_user');

}

}


Role Model


<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;



class Role extends Model

{



public function users()

{

return $this->belongsToMany(User::class, 'role_user');

}

}


UserRole Model


<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;



class UserRole extends Model

{

}



Now we can create records


$user = User::find(2); 

$roleIds = [1, 2];

$user->roles()->attach($roleIds);



$user = User::find(3);

$roleIds = [1, 2];

$user->roles()->sync($roleIds);



$role = Role::find(1);

$userIds = [10, 11];

$role->users()->attach($userIds);



$role = Role::find(2);

$userIds = [10, 11];

$role->users()->sync($userIds);



Now we can retrieve records


$user = User::find(1); 

dd($user->roles);



$role = Role::find(1);

dd($role->users);




Hence laravel Eloquent is more powerful and we do relationships easily compared to native query. We will be having three more relationships in laravel. Ie.., has many, one to many polymorphic and many to many polymorphic. With eloquent relationship we can easily connect the tables each other. One to one relationships we can connect two tables with their basic functionalities. In one to many we will connect with single table with multiple options. In Many to many we will be having more tables.
7758 views · 5 years ago
Standalone PHP Class for Managing Session Based Multiple Cart

Hi Guys,

I am sharing you a standalone class for managing a session based cart system. In this class I have provided multiple methods for adding, updating and deleting the products. and By using this class you may manage multiple cart objects with different data only you need to pass a different key in constructor of that class.

Let me share you the How can we use that Class:


Include The cart class


require 'PhpKart.class.php';



Create a Cart Object initializing the Cart base key name, by using different keys we can manage multiple cart data in a same project , like main cart or wishlist


$obj1 = new PhpKart("MainCart");


Here Maincart is the keyname in which $obj1 insert/modify/delete the data


Adding any product inside cart


$obj1->add_to_cart($product_id=123,$quantity=2,$product_information=array("product_name"=>"Tomato","Price"=>20));


Where parameter1 is product, id,parameter 2 is quantity, and Parameter 3 is product information Array


Now If we want to update the quantity in product_id=123 with quantity 5 then use following:


$obj1->add_to_cart($product_id=123,$quantity=5);


Here we did not pass the information array again because no matter you pass or not if the product information is already added in the cart then if won't be affected So no ned to pass this, only pass product id and its Quantity


If we want to add another product:


$obj1->add_to_cart($product_id=145,$quantity=3,$product_information=array("product_name"=>"Potato","Price"=>30));



Now we have a case what if our product is already having some quantity and we want to increase into it or decrease into it, Then to retrieve the already added product information, using AlreadyExists method by passing product id,it will return array if it exists and it will return boolean false if not exists:


$already_exists=$obj1->AlreadyExists($product_id=145); 
if($already_exists !== false )
{
print_r($already_exists);
}



If we want to remove any product from cart:


$obj1->remove_from_cart($product_id=145);



If we want to get all products from the current cart


print_r( $obj1->getAllItems() );


It will return you an array with all the items exist in the current cart



Getting all item's count inside the current cart


echo $obj1->getTotalItems(); 



If we want to get calculate total amount in the current cart


echo $obj1->getCartTotalAmount($priceKeyName='Price')


Note: In the above snippet we need to provide teh same key name which we have used for product price in project information array at the time of adding items in cart array, and need to take the same key name in all the products inserting in Same Cart



If we want to clear/reset the current cart then use following:


$obj1->clear_cart(); 


Now if we want to save some other user interested items separately which use likes but don't want to buy now so that items can be Add into wishlist So we need to create new object with different cart ket name and that list will be manage separately using it's object. Like Following:



Create new Object by passing different Key

$obj2=new PhpKart("MyWishlist"); 



Add a new item to $obj2 object containing the items user want to add in his/her wishlist


$obj2->add_to_cart($product_id=159,$quantity=8,$product_information=array("product_name"=>"Baby Toy","Price"=>100));



Show the total cart Amount


echo $obj2->getCartTotalAmount("Price"); 



Full Source Code


Following is the full code for that cart managing Class . Just create a file named PhpKart.class.php and add following code in it:

<?php 
if(!session_id()){
@session_start();
}


class PhpKart{

private $cart_key;

public function __construct($CartkeyName)
{
$this->cart_key=$CartkeyName;
}
public function add_to_cart($product_id,$quantity='1',$product_information=array())
{
$_SESSION[$this->cart_key][$product_id]['product_id']=$product_id;
$_SESSION[$this->cart_key][$product_id]['quantity']=$quantity;
if(!isset($_SESSION[$this->cart_key][$product_id]['product_information']) && !empty($product_information)){
$_SESSION[$this->cart_key][$product_id]['product_information']=$product_information;
}
}
public function remove_from_cart($product_id)
{
unset($_SESSION[$this->cart_key][$product_id]);
}
public function clear_cart()
{
unset($_SESSION[$this->cart_key]);
}
public function getTotalItems()
{
return count($_SESSION[$this->cart_key]);
}
public function getCartTotalAmount($price_key_name)
{
$total=0;
foreach($_SESSION[$this->cart_key] as $row)
{
$total += ($row['product_information'][$price_key_name]*$row['quantity']);
}

return $total;
}
public function AlreadyExists($product_id)
{
if (isset($_SESSION[$this->cart_key][$product_id]))
{
return $_SESSION[$this->cart_key][$product_id];
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
public function getAllItems()
{
return $_SESSION[$this->cart_key];
}


}

?>

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