Bundle for notifications in Symfony2

Question

I want to include notifications, eg for forum threads. A user shall retrieve notifications if there are any new posts to a forum thread. Another example would be the notifications on Facebook, eg where you're notified of new comments on your posts or pictures.

Is there a notification bundle for Symfony2 that you can recommend for implementing such a function?

I came up with the Sonata NotificationBundle but I am unsure if this is what I really need. When I look at the usage examples it looks as if this would provide a email notification function

// retrieve the notification backend
$backend = $container->get('sonata.notification.backend');

// create and publish a message
$backend->createAndPublish('mailer', array(
    'from' => array(
        'email' => 'no-reply@sonata-project.org',
        'name'  => 'No Reply'
    ),
    'to'   => array(
        'myuser@example.org' => 'My User',
        'myuser1@example.org' => 'My User 1',
    ),
    'message' => array(
        'html' => '<b>hello</b>',
        'text' => 'hello'
    ),
    'subject' => 'Contact form',
));

or a logging function

$this->get('sonata.notification.backend')->createAndPublish('logger', array(
    'level' => 'debug',
    'message' => 'Hello world!'
));

Can you confirm/recommend the usage of that bundle? Or can you recommend any other?

Answer 1

Good news:
NotificationBundle from GeniusesOfSymfony https://github.com/GeniusesOfSymfony/NotificationBundle

Proper documentation will probably be published soon.
(on-going discussion here: https://github.com/GeniusesOfSymfony/WebSocketBundle/issues/4#issuecomment-81829513 )

I've already tested a similar bundle created by them (WebSocketBundle) which also provides real-time-interaction and it works really great. The documentation is also very good.

I recommend that you "star" the project on github. You can also create an issue to ask about the current status of the project.

Answer 2

I'm searching for the same library now, and also found https://github.com/namshi/notificator

Didn't use it yet, but it has 130 stars today, so probably will try it.

Answer 3

You can achieve this with sonata notification bundle.

You will need to create custom consumer class as described here

https://sonata-project.org/bundles/notification/3-x/doc/reference/usage.html#custom-consumer

Answer 4

You can try this Bundle: NotificationsBundle
It's a simple implementation for Pusher that provides a real time data proadcast.