Installation

You need an account on octobercms.com to install this plugin.

1. Sign in and click on the Add to Project button on the product page for the plugin in the marketplace.
2. Select the project you wish to add the plugin to (or create one).
3. Make sure you have attached this project to your website in the backend of your website in order to pull in the new plugin (Settings > Updates & Plugins). Don't worry, attaching or detaching your website to a project will never delete anything!

Usage

The plugin provides a new entry in the backend navigation that shows the number of notifications the user has and on the page it lists all notifications. If allowed by the user, it will make use of browser push-notifications. The plugin will poll for new notifications every 5 seconds.

Notifications can be created programatically by firing an event:

Event::fire('studiobosco.backendnotifications.notify', [$user, $subject, $body, $url]);

• $user can be a user ID or a backend user object
• $subject is mandatory and a string representing the notification subject
• $body is optional and a string representing the html formatted body text of the notification
• $url is optional and a string represting the URL to which the notification should link to.