How to display notifications in Laravel? - php

Question

I'm having a weird issue.
I have two notification classes InterviewRequestReceived.php and SendJobSeekerResume.php.
I'm trying to display the total number of notifications using count() next to a little bell icon and then a message related to the respective notification class. The messages are simple, they are located in /layouts/partials/notification.
1. interview_request_received.blade.php
<div>
<span class="font-weight-bold">You've been sent an Interview request!</span>
</div>
2. send_job_seeker_resume.blade.php
<div>
<span class="font-weight-bold">You've been sent a new Job Profile!</span>
</div>
in my admin file I have 2 roles, depending on if the user is logged in as a jobseeker or employer.
admin.blade.php:
<!-- Nav Item - Alerts -->
<li class="nav-item dropdown no-arrow mx-1">
<a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="alertsDropdown" role="button" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
Notifications<i class="fas fa-bell fa-fw"></i>
#if(Auth::user()->role_id === 1)
<!-- Counter - Alerts -->
<span class="badge badge-danger badge-counter">{{ $jobSeekerProfile->unreadNotifications->where('type', 'App\Notifications\InterviewRequestReceived')->count() > 0 ? $jobSeekerProfile->unreadNotifications->count() : '' }}</span>
#endif
#if(Auth::user()->role_id === 2)
<!-- Counter - Alerts -->
<span class="badge badge-danger badge-counter">{{ Auth::user()->unreadNotifications->where('type', 'App\Notifications\SendJobSeekerResume')->count() }}</span>
#endif
</a>
<!-- Dropdown - Alerts -->
<div class="dropdown-list dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right shadow animated--grow-in" aria-labelledby="alertsDropdown">
<h6 class="dropdown-header">
Notifications
</h6>
#if(Auth::user()->role_id === 1)
#foreach($jobSeekerProfile->unreadNotifications as $notification)
<a class="dropdown-item d-flex align-items-center" href="#">
#include('layouts.partials.notification.'. Str::snake(class_basename($notification->type)))
</a>
#endforeach
#endif
#if(Auth::user()->role_id === 2)
#foreach(Auth::user()->unreadNotifications as $notification)
<a class="dropdown-item d-flex align-items-center" href="#">
#include('layouts.partials.notification.'. Str::snake(class_basename($notification->type)))
</a>
#endforeach
#endif
<a class="dropdown-item text-center small text-gray-500" href="#">Show All Alerts</a>
</div>
</li>
Both items with role_id === 1 are working, I get the count and the item with the message,
but the items where role_id === 2 I get count 0 and no item with message, it is very strange. Of course I'm viewing and testing with 2 accounts where I either have role_id set to 1 or role_id set to 2.
Here is a screenshot of my Notifications Table:
When I login with the user_id 12 (also role_id is set to 2) it should display all of the notifications where notifiable_id is set to 12.
I die and dumped my two models to see if the notifications are there,
employerProfile and jobSeekerProfile models like this, and I can see that there are no notifications in my employerProfile model, it is just an empty array. Below are screenshots.
dd($employerProfile->notifications);
dd($jobSeekerProfile->notifications);
EmployerProfile.php model:
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
class EmployerProfile extends Model
{
use Notifiable;
protected $fillable = [
'user_id',
'company_name',
'company_phone',
'immediate_contact',
'email',
'company_address',
'number_of_employees'
];
public function user(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
}
}
JobSeekerProfile.php model:
<?php
namespace App;
use Carbon\Carbon;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
class JobSeekerProfile extends Model
{
use Notifiable;
protected $fillable = [
'user_id',
'photo_id',
'resume_id',
'video_one_id',
'video_two_id',
'video_three_id',
'first_name',
'last_name',
'email',
'date_of_birth',
'full_or_part_time',
'experience',
'additional_skills',
'file'
];
public function user(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
}
public function resume(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Resume');
}
public function video(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Video');
}
}
Can anyone help?

Answer 1

You are getting notifications from wrong Model.
According to your code and database structure,
assume login user id is 3,employer_profile_user_id is 12
$user->unreadNotifications get records from notifications table where notifiable_type is App\User and notifiable_id is 3;
$user->employerProfile->unreadNotifications get records from notifications table where notifiable_type is App\EmployerProfile and notifiable_id is 12;
so try this for count
#if(Auth::user()->role_id === 2)
<!-- Counter - Alerts -->
<span class="badge badge-danger badge-counter">{{ Auth::user()->employerProfile->unreadNotifications->where('type', 'App\Notifications\SendJobSeekerResume')->count() }}</span>
#endif
and this for detail
#if(Auth::user()->role_id === 2)
#foreach(Auth::user()->employerProfile->unreadNotifications as $notification)
<a class="dropdown-item d-flex align-items-center" href="#">
#include('layouts.partials.notification.'. Str::snake(class_basename($notification->type)))
</a>
#endforeach
#endif