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Easily add an admin interface for standard Laravel database notifications. This package includes:

a sidebar item, with an optional notification count for the current user (refreshed with AJAX every second)
an interface that shows the notifications in the database for the current user, with their (optional) action buttons;

The only thing left for you to do is to actually trigger notifications for your admins, wherever you want, using the standard Laravel syntax (example below).

Prerequisites

Have Laravel Backpack installed backpack/crud v4.0.* | 4.1.*
Follow the steps for laravel's database notifications prerequisites, e.g:

php artisan notifications:table
php artisan migrate

Installation

Backpack v5

composer require pestopancake/laravel-backpack-database-notifications

Backpack v4

composer require pestopancake/laravel-backpack-database-notifications:1.0.6

Usage

Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Pestopancake\\LaravelBackpackNotifications\\LaravelBackpackNotificationsServiceProvider" --tag=config

Show in side menu

Add a menu item to your 'resources/views/vendor/backpack/base/inc/sidebar_content.blade.php' by running:

php artisan backpack:add-sidebar-content "@include('backpack-database-notifications::sidebarMenuItem')"

Admin view

If you also have the Permission Manager package installed then you can assign the permission 'notifications admin' to users for them to see admin functionality.

To change the permission name edit 'admin_permission_name' in the databasenotifications config file.

Currently users with the admin permission can see/dismiss notifications for all users.

Create a notification

Use the included generic notification

use Pestopancake\LaravelBackpackNotifications\Notifications\DatabaseNotification;

$user = backpack_user();
$user->notify(new DatabaseNotification(
    $type = 'info', // info / success / warning / error
    $message = 'Test Notification',
    $messageLong = 'This is a longer message for the test notification '.rand(1, 99999), // optional
    $href = '/some-custom-url', // optional, e.g. backpack_url('/example')
    $hrefText = 'Go to custom URL' // optional
));

Use in any other notification

The toArray method of the notification should be in this format:

return [
    'type' => "info", // info / success / warning / error
    'message' => "",
    'message_long' => "", // optional
    'action_href' => "", // optional, e.g. backpack_url('/example')
    'action_text' => "", // optional
];

The type will affect the colour of the toast notification (if toasts are enabled in the config)

Troubleshooting

Notification not created

Make sure the model you are notifying matches the model defined in your backpack config at backpack.base.user_model_fqn (found in config/backpack/base.php)

Change log

See the changelog for more information on what has changed recently.

Todo

Add unit tests
translatable text
notification preferences

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