Building a Notification Preference System in Laravel
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Storing more complex notification preferences in Laravel can be pretty tricky. In this course I'm going to guide you through how to set this up, how to display these groups and individual notification preferences
00:14
within some sort of dashboard area. Then we're going to look at syncing these to the database. We'll write some tests alongside of these with PEST just to make sure everything is good and nothing breaks in the future.
00:25
And then we'll add some other finishing touches to this as well. And then I'll go ahead and show you how you can actually use these notification preferences that have been selected directly inside your notification classes. Now the good thing about this system is it is incredibly flexible.
00:43
If we wanted to add a new notification section we could very easily do that. What we could also do is add new individual notification preferences within these sections. And we can also add new channels as well. So let me just show you how to do one of these.
00:58
And you'll be able to pretty much just manage all of this stuff either directly from your database or from your admin panel. So let's add SMS here as a notification channel. And as you can see this automatically adds this for us.
01:11
And the user can then just go ahead and start to select these. They can go ahead and save these out. They will be saved. And then when we get to the notification level, which we've just had a look at, all of these channels here will be returned.
01:24
And then of course within your notifications you can go ahead and customize how you want these to be sent based on the channels that the user has selected. So very very flexible. Let's go ahead and look at how we build this from start to finish.
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Overview

Need to store advanced notification preferences in your application?

In this course, we cover displaying a matrix of notification groups, types and channels with the ability to sync preferences cleanly and quickly.

Once you’re done, your users will be able to choose what notifications they receive, and how.

Oh, and we’ll write tests to back everything up, look at how to use notification preferences in Notification classes, and how to set defaults for when users register.

Alex Garrett-Smith
Alex Garrett-Smith
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