Firebase for Laravel

A Laravel package for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK.

• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
• Documentation

Installation

This package requires Laravel 5.8 and higher or Lumen 5.8 and higher.

composer require kreait/laravel-firebase

If you use Lumen or don't use Laravel's package auto-discovery, add the following service provider in config/app.php (Laravel) or bootstrap/app.php (Lumen):

Laravel

<?php
// config/app.php
return [
    // ...
    'providers' => [
        // ...
        Kreait\Laravel\Firebase\ServiceProvider::class
    ]
    // ...   
];

Lumen

<?php
// bootstrap/app.php

$app->register(Kreait\Laravel\Firebase\ServiceProvider::class);

Configuration

In order to access a Firebase project and its related services using a server SDK, requests must be authenticated. For server-to-server communication this is done with a Service Account.

The package uses auto discovery to find the credentials needed for authenticating requests to the Firebase APIs by inspecting certain environment variables and looking into Google's well known path(s).

If you don't already have generated a Service Account, you can do so by following the instructions from the official documentation pages at https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup#initialize_the_sdk.

Once you have downloaded the Service Account JSON file, you can use it to configure the package by specifying the environment variable FIREBASE_CREDENTIALS in your .env file:

FIREBASE_CREDENTIALS=/full/path/to/firebase_credentials.json
# or
FIREBASE_CREDENTIALS=relative/path/to/firebase_credentials.json

For further configuration, please see config/firebase.php. You can modify the configuration by copying it to your local config directory:

# Laravel
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Kreait\Laravel\Firebase\ServiceProvider" --tag=config

# Lumen
mkdir -p config
cp vendor/kreait/firebase-laravel/config/firebase.php config/firebase.php

Usage

Component	Automatic Injection	Facades	app()
Authentication	\Kreait\Firebase\Auth	FirebaseAuth	app('firebase.auth')
Cloud Firestore	\Kreait\Firebase\Firestore	FirebaseFirestore	app('firebase.firestore')
Cloud Messaging (FCM)	\Kreait\Firebase\Messaging	FirebaseMessaging	app('firebase.messaging')
Dynamic Links	\Kreait\Firebase\DynamicLinks	FirebaseDynamicLinks	app('firebase.dynamic_links')
Realtime Database	\Kreait\Firebase\Database	FirebaseDatabase	app('firebase.database')
Remote Config	\Kreait\Firebase\RemoteConfig	FirebaseRemoteConfig	app('firebase.remote_config')
Storage	\Kreait\Firebase\Storage	FirebaseStorage	app('firebase.storage')

Once you have retrieved a component, please refer to the documentation of the Firebase PHP Admin SDK for further information on how to use it.

You don't need and should not use the new Factory() pattern described in the SDK documentation, this is already done for you with the Laravel Service Provider. Use Dependency Injection, the Facades or the app() helper instead

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.