GIST of a Joomla plugin that tries to send APNS push message whenever someone publishes an article

contentpush.php

<?php

// no direct access
defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );
define( 'YOURBASEPATH', dirname(__FILE__) );

require_once YOURBASEPATH . '/push.php';

class plgSystemContentpush extends JPlugin
{
  public function onContentAfterSave($context, $article, $isNew)
	{

		$app = JFactory::getApplication();

		if ($isNew == false)
		{			
			JFactory::getApplication()->enqueueMessage('ArticleID: '.$article->id.' Title: '.$article->title);
			JFactory::getApplication()->enqueueMessage(pushAPNS::sendpush($article->id,$article->title));

		}

	}
}

gistfile1.txt

<?php  

// no direct access
defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );

class pushAPNS
{
  public function sendpush($id,$message)
	{
		JFactory::getApplication()->enqueueMessage('called');
        $serverId = "0b9214ea";  
	    $name = "APNS";  
	    $apnsPort = 2195;  
	    $passPhrase = "thanasis";  
	    $fwrite = "";  
	    $sslUrl = "ssl://gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com:" . $apnsPort;  
	    $apnsCert = "apns-dev.pem";//give the apns.pem file path on your server  
	    $badge = 1;  
	    //$message = 'My first Push notification';  
	    //$apnspayload['aps'] = array ('alert' => $message,'badge' => $badge,'sound' => 'default');  
	    $apnspayload['aps'] = array ('alert' => $message,'id' => $id);  
	    $payload = json_encode($apnspayload);  
	    $tokenId = 'd67324cb e44bb5a6 88ceb1ba 1cb2fbf4 17f130ee dd56782d 450003c1 9ea4f5b1'; //add your device token ID here       
	    $apnsMessage = chr(1) . pack('N', time()) . pack('N', time() + 86400) . chr(0) . chr(32) . pack('H*', str_replace(' ', '', $tokenId)) . chr(0) . chr(strlen($payload)) . $payload;  
	    $streamContext = stream_context_create();  
	    stream_context_set_option($streamContext, 'ssl', 'local_cert', $apnsCert);  
		stream_context_set_option($streamContext, 'ssl', 'passphrase', $passPhrase);
		
		try
		{			
			$apns = stream_socket_client($sslUrl, $error, $errorString, 6, STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, $streamContext);  
		}
		catch (Exception $e)
		{
			// An exception has been caught, just echo the message.
			fwrite(STDOUT, $e->getMessage() . "\n");
			exit($e->getCode());
		}
		
		
	   if($apns)
	   {
	   		$fwrite = fwrite($apns, $apnsMessage);  
	   		fclose($apns);  
	   		@socket_close($apns);  
	   		
	   		return 'true';
	   }
	   else
	   {  
	     	return 'Error '.$error.': '.$errorString; 
	   }  
	}
}