Notification Helper For Laravel Spark

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notification Helper For Laravel Spark

The method assumes the current authenticated user, so you only need to pass the message

function notification($message)
{
	$notification = app('Laravel\Spark\Contracts\Repositories\NotificationRepository');
	
	return $notification->create(auth()->user(), $message);
}

And call it like so

notification([
    'icon' => 'fa-users',
    'body' => "Hello World",
    'action_text' => 'Click Me',
    'action_url' => "http://google.com",
]);

How about accepting a second argument for an optional user id? In my case, I would like to notify the team owner when the billing is updated (per user team billing)

@phroggy You've probably sorted this out by now but for anyone else who's just come across this gist and wondered the same thing:

function notification($message, $user = NULL)
{
    $notification = app('Laravel\Spark\Contracts\Repositories\NotificationRepository');

    if(!isset($user)) 
    {
        $user = auth()->user();
    }

    return $notification->create($user, $message);
}

Works exactly as original (notifies current user) unless you specify the optional $user parameter. The $user parameter should be a User object, not just the user ID.

Where would you place this helper method?

@obaid! Great question. I was thinking the same...

+1 for wondering where you put it.

@katieben, and others, you can add a helpers.php file to composer and use it

https://laravel-news.com/creating-helpers