Retrieving Auth user data from Database (Laravel) - php

Question

I'm new to laravel and I seek to learn more about Retrieving user information from Database.
I have a website where you can send a message from_id, to_id.
When people register, there data get inserted in a table users.
Users table contains:
uid(from_id), email, tokenn
Posts table contains:
message, from_id, to_id
I created an php file that will push notification for a user tokenn and added this code to:
\sup\app\Http\Controllers
postsController.php
Here's my post function that posts a message from user to another with push notification function.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\post;
use Auth;
use Lang;
class postsController extends Controller
{
public function send_feedback(Request $request){
$this->validate($request,[
'feedback_image' => 'nullable|image|mimes:jpeg,png,jpg|max:3072',
'feedback_content' => 'required|max:500'
]);
$pid = rand(9,999999999)+time();
if (Auth::user()) {
$from_id = Auth::user()->uid;
}elseif (Auth::guest()) {
$from_id = 0;
}
$to_id = $request['hidden2'];
$feedback = $request['feedback_content'];
$image = $request->file('feedback_image');
$time = $request['hidden'];
if ($request->hasFile('feedback_image')) {
$img_ext = $image->getClientOriginalExtension();
$img_name = rand(9,9999999)+time()+rand(0,55555).".".$img_ext;
$img_new = $image->storeAs("fbImgs",$img_name);
}else{
$img_name = "";
}
$post = new post();
$post->pid = $pid;
$post->from_id = $from_id;
$post->to_id = $to_id;
$post->feedback = $feedback;
$post->image = $img_name;
$post->time = $time;
$post->save();
//
**define('xxxxx');
$fcmUrl = 'https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send';
$token='{{ Auth::user()->tokenn }}';
$notification = [
'title' =>'XXX',
'body' => 'XXXX',
'icon' =>'myIcon',
'sound' => 'mySound'
];
$extraNotificationData = ["message" => $notification,"moredata" =>'dd'];
$fcmNotification = [
//'registration_ids' => $tokenList, //multple token array
'to' => $token, //single token
'notification' => $notification,
'data' => $extraNotificationData
];
$headers = [
'Authorization: key=' . API_ACCESS_KEY,
'Content-Type: application/json'
];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$fcmUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($fcmNotification));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;**
//
return redirect()->back()->with('feedback_sent',Lang::get('trans.fb_sent'));
}
public function postPrivacy(Request $request){
$pid_var = $request['pid'];
$pid_ex = explode("_", $pid_var);
$pid = #$pid_ex[1];
if ($request['status'] == "true") {
$updatePrivacy = post::where('pid',$pid)->update(['privacy' => 1]);
}else{
$updatePrivacy = post::where('pid',$pid)->update(['privacy' => 0]);
}
return $pid;
}
public function deletePost(Request $request){
$checkID = post::where('pid',$request['pid'])->get()->count();
if ($checkID > 0) {
$allowed = post::where('pid',$request['pid'])->get();
foreach ($allowed as $getAllowed) {
$to_id = $getAllowed->to_id;
$from_id = $getAllowed->from_id;
}
if ($to_id == Auth::user()->uid || $from_id == Auth::user()->uid) {
$deleteFB = post::where('pid',$request['pid'])->delete();
return "done";
}else{
return Lang::get('trans.delPost_notAllowed');
}
}else{
return Lang::get('trans.err_somethingWrong');
}
}
}
?>
As you can see, $token='{{ Auth::user()->tokenn }}';, Token should get current user's tokenn, the recipient token from users table but I don't know how?
I tried to declare new variable as follows: $tokenn = Auth::user()->tokenn but it is not working. I'm messing something. I searched whole project where to declare and retrieve column name of token but I don't know where.
Edit:
changed $token='{{ Auth::user()->tokenn }}'; to $token=Auth::user()->tokenn; as I have been informed.
It is working but in this case $token is recieving logged in user token and sends the sender a notification. I want to push notification for the recipient of the message something like $token=Auth::user()->to_id->tokenn;

Answer 1

In case if you want to get the other user's tokenn (to_id user), try this code:
$token = User::find($to_id)->tokenn;
in case if to_id is the column uid inside your table, then you should use this:
$token = User::where('uid', $to_id)->first()->tokenn;
also you need to make sure that the other user exists, from request validation or using findOrFail instead of find or firstOrFail instead of first.
Update:
Instead of curl, you can use Laravel native Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http wrapper which makes debugging easier. I translated your code:
<?php
class postsController extends Controller
{
public function send_feedback(Request $request)
{
// codes before ....
$apiAccessKey = "some key";
$token = "something";
$url = "https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send";
$notification = [
'title' => 'XXX',
'body' => 'XXXX',
'icon' => 'myIcon',
'sound' => 'mySound'
];
$extraNotificationData = [
"message" => $notification,
"moredata" => 'dd'
];
$fcmNotification = [
'to' => $token,
'notification' => $notification,
'data' => $extraNotificationData
];
$response = Http::acceptJson()
->withHeaders([
'Authorization' => 'key=' . $apiAccessKey
])->post(
$url,
$fcmNotification
);
dd($response->json());
}
}