In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a pure Facebook-like notification using Ajax, Bootstrap, and PHP. In this tutorial, a warning will add every time we add a new user.
Table of Contents
Creating a Database for Facebook-Like Notification using AJAX in PHP
First, we’re going to create our database. This will store our sample data:
1. Open phpMyAdmin.
2. Click databases, create a database and name it as “notif”.
3. After creating a database, click the SQL and paste the below code. See image below for detailed instruction.
CREATE TABLE `user` ( `userid` INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `firstname` VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL, `lastname` VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL, `seen_status` INT(1) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY(`userid`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
Creating a Connection
Next step is to create a database connection and save it as “conn.php”. This file will serve as our bridge between our form and our database. To create the file, open your HTML code editor and paste the code below after the tag.
<?php
//MySQLi Procedural
$conn = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","notif");
if (!$conn) {
die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
}
?>Creating a Main Page
Next step is to create our main page which contains our add form and the place of our notification. Also included in this page is our ajax codes. We name this as “index.php”.
<?php
include('conn.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang = "en">
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<title>PHP Fb-like Notification using AJAX Bootstrap</title>
</head>
<body>
<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="navbar-header">
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">nurhodelta_17</a>
</div>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li class="dropdown">
<a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown"><span class="label label-pill label-danger count" style="border-radius:10px;"></span> <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-globe" style="font-size:18px;"></span></a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu"></ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
<div style="height:10px;"></div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-3">
</div>
<div class="col-md-6 well">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-12">
<center><h2 class="text-primary">PHP Fb-like Notification using AJAX Bootstrap</h2></center>
<hr>
<div>
<form class="form-inline" method="POST" id="add_form">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Firstname:</label>
<input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname" class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Lastname:</label>
<input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname" class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="submit" name="addnew" id="addnew" class="btn btn-primary" value="Add">
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div><br>
<div class="row">
<div id="userTable"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class = "col-md-3">
</div>
</div>
</body>
<script type = "text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
function load_unseen_notification(view = '')
{
$.ajax({
url:"fetch.php",
method:"POST",
data:{view:view},
dataType:"json",
success:function(data)
{
$('.dropdown-menu').html(data.notification);
if(data.unseen_notification > 0){
$('.count').html(data.unseen_notification);
}
}
});
}
load_unseen_notification();
$('#add_form').on('submit', function(event){
event.preventDefault();
if($('#firstname').val() != '' && $('#lastname').val() != ''){
var form_data = $(this).serialize();
$.ajax({
url:"addnew.php",
method:"POST",
data:form_data,
success:function(data)
{
$('#add_form')[0].reset();
load_unseen_notification();
}
});
}
else{
alert("Enter Data First");
}
});
$(document).on('click', '.dropdown-toggle', function(){
$('.count').html('');
load_unseen_notification('yes');
});
setInterval(function(){
load_unseen_notification();;
}, 5000);
});
</script>
</html>Creating a Fetch Code
Next is to create our code in fetching data from database that whenever a row is added, it will return to us via notification. We name this as “fetch.php”.
<?php
//fetch.php;
if(isset($_POST["view"])){
include("conn.php");
if($_POST["view"] != ''){
mysqli_query($conn,"update `user` set seen_status='1' where seen_status='0'");
}
$query=mysqli_query($conn,"select * from `user` order by userid desc limit 10");
$output = '';
if(mysqli_num_rows($query) > 0){
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($query)){
$output .= '
<li>
<a href="#">
Firstname: <strong>'.$row['firstname'].'</strong><br />
Lastname: <strong>'.$row['lastname'].'</strong>
</a>
</li>
';
}
}
else{
$output .= '<li><a href="#" class="text-bold text-italic">No Notification Found</a></li>';
}
$query1=mysqli_query($conn,"select * from `user` where seen_status='0'");
$count = mysqli_num_rows($query1);
$data = array(
'notification' => $output,
'unseen_notification' => $count
);
echo json_encode($data);
}
?>Creating a Add Code
Last is our add code that adds rows into our database. We name this as “addnew.php”.
<?php
//insert.php
if(isset($_POST["firstname"]))
{
include('conn.php');
$firstname = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn, $_POST['firstname']);
$lastname = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn, $_POST['lastname']);
mysqli_query($conn,"insert into `user` (firstname, lastname) values ('$firstname', '$lastname')");
}
?>Happy Coding!
