How to build an android Push Notification server in PHP

Question

I am developing an application and in that application I need to implement push notification.

Can anyone suggest me how to do develop the server in PHP (Json, Zend Framework if possible) and provide me a good tutorial on push notification?

Answer 1

"Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) is deprecated". Its new version is Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). There is plenty of information and source code examples on developer.android.com.

Here is another useful post for Android Push Notifications.

Answer 2

Whenever you want to send message to an android device your Server contacts -> Google Server Contacts -> android device .

So you integrate your ZF application with google c2d api . Here you can find one such implementation of this type of integration with ZF http://blog.digitalstruct.com/2010/11/21/android-c2dm-with-php-and-zend-framework/