In this episode, we're diving into how to send Laravel notifications to a group of users in a much cleaner and more elegant way. We start out by looking at the standard approach—looping over each user and sending the notification individually. While that works, it can look a bit messy if you have to do it lots of times throughout your app.
Instead, we refactor things by creating a custom user collection that has its own notify
method. We set this up so that when you fetch a group of users from the database, you can directly call notify()
on that collection, just like you would on a single user. To make this work, we make a custom collection and add a notify
method to it.
To keep things organized, we also introduce a little GroupNotification
class that handles sending out the notifications to everyone in the collection. We use some PHP magic (the __destruct
method) to make sure that the notifications get sent without having to call extra methods, making our code super neat.
Finally, we show how to support additional features like delays on the notification just in case you want to queue or time-shift email sends.
Overall, after this episode you'll be able to cleanly and efficiently notify groups of users with less boilerplate and much more elegant code!