Basically, we have used GCM(Google Cloud Messaging) for sending push notification to Android devices.
Recently Google has been launched Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), the latest version of GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) with more properties.

This article is useful for the PHP developers who want to send push notifications by using PHP with FCM(Firebase Cloud Messaging).

Push notification was a viral protocol which gives bloom to business in Today’s digital world. Here we will explain to you about, What is Push Notification? How to create a Push Notification using different platforms/services like PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor ), GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) and FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging)? Let’s start

Firebase Server Key is used to send push notifications to Android devices and this Server API Key to identify your firebase app. Let’s Generate a Firebase Server Key

Create a Firebase project and Get your Server Key

1) Login to the Firebase Developer Console and if you haven’t created a project yet, click “Create Project”.

by default, the IMAP for PHP is deactivated. First, you need to check whether PHP IMAP is installed or not. lets check with phpinfo() function.

Check PHP IMAP Is Install.

1) Create a new file in your root directory called “whatever.php” and put below small code on this file.

Note: it is not a good practice to name the file “phpinfo.php”, because some attackers search for files with that name on your servers. so, please keep it in your mind.
2) Now, run this file from your favorite browser.
3) You can check the same as snap below.

Recently I need to get the domain name from the URL. This is a small task but it is very useful stuff. In this short article, We’ll provide you simple and easy code to get the domain name from URL in PHP.

First you need to parse URL using parse_url(). you can get the array from parse URL. Now, you can get the specific host from the array using $parse[‘host’].