Laravel Notification | Send Notification in Laravel 9 Example

Laravel provides sending notifications across a variety of delivery channels like, including email, SMS (via Vonage, formerly known as Nexmo), and Slack. Sometimes we need to send notification to mulitple users in laravel. So I am here to show you how to send notification in laravel 9 application. 

I will share with you a complete step by step guide like create notification, setup notification driver, send notification to multiple users etc in this laravel 9 notification tutorial. If you do not know how to send notification in laravel 9 then this example is for you.

So from this tutorial, you will learn laravel 9 send notification to multiple email address.  So let's start the tutorial:

Step 1: Download laravel 9

In this first step, we need a fresh laravel app. 

composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-notification-system --prefer-dist

Step 2: Connect database

In this step, we will connect the database. So connect MySQL database like:

.env

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

If you are using MAMP local server in macOS; make sure to append UNIX_SOCKET and DB_SOCKET below database credentials in the .env file.

UNIX_SOCKET=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock
DB_SOCKET=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock

Step 3: Create Notification Table

We need a notification table, so run the below command to create it:

php artisan notifications:table

It will generate notifications table like:

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('notifications', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->uuid('id')->primary();
        $table->string('type');
        $table->morphs('notifiable');
        $table->text('data');
        $table->timestamp('read_at')->nullable();
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

Now run php artisan migrate to create notifications table.

Read also: Laravel 9 Database Notification Example

Step 4: Create Notification

To generate a notification, we have a make:notification command. So run the below command to create a notification.

php artisan make:notification OffersNotification

To generate a notification with a corresponding Markdown template, you may use the --markdown option of the make:notification Artisan command:

php artisan make:notification OffersNotification --markdown=mail.invoice.paid

Now update this notification class like this:

app/Notifications/OffersNotification.php.

namespace App\Notifications;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
class OffersNotification extends Notification
{
    use Queueable;
    private $offerData;
    /**
     * Create a new notification instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($offerData)
    {
        $this->offerData = $offerData;
    }
    /**
     * Get the notification's delivery channels.
     *
     * @param  mixed  $notifiable
     * @return array
     */
    public function via($notifiable)
    {
        return ['mail','database'];
    }
    /**
     * Get the mail representation of the notification.
     *
     * @param  mixed  $notifiable
     * @return \Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage
     */
    public function toMail($notifiable)
    {
        return (new MailMessage)                    
            ->name($this->offerData['name'])
            ->line($this->offerData['body'])
            ->action($this->offerData['offerText'], $this->offerData['offerUrl'])
            ->line($this->offerData['thanks']);
    }
    /**
     * Get the array representation of the notification.
     *
     * @param  mixed  $notifiable
     * @return array
     */
    public function toArray($notifiable)
    {
        return [
            'offer_id' => $this->offerData['offer_id']
        ];
    }
}

Step 5: Create Route

Now update the route for notifications like:

routes/web.php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\NotificationController;

Route::get('/send-notification', [NotificationController::class, 'sendOfferNotification']);

Step 6: Create Controller

Now in this step, we have to create a controller to process sending notifications in laravel 9. So create it like:

php artisan make:controller NotificationController

Now update this file like:

app/Http/Controllers/NotificationController.php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\User;
use Notification;
use App\Notifications\OffersNotification;

class NotificationController extends Controller
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('auth');
    }
  
    public function index()
    {
        return view('product');
    }
    
    public function sendOfferNotification() {
        $userSchema = User::first();
  
        $offerData = [
            'name' => 'John Doe',
            'body' => 'You received an offer.',
            'thanks' => 'Thank you',
            'offerText' => 'Check out the offer',
            'offerUrl' => url('/'),
            'offer_id' => 007
        ];
  
        Notification::send($userSchema, new OffersNotification($offerData));
   
        dd('Task completed!');
    }
}

Now run php artisan serve and visit the below URL to check the tutorial for sending notifications in laravel 9.

Read also: Laravel Web Socket Example with Event Broadcasting

Hope it can help you.