Question

I have a php script which is responsible for reading some request parameters from my iPhone app. Once I do some manipulations to it I save them in db and will need to send some push notification message using apple APNS. So currently its done like this in the code.

<?php
    $param1 = $_POST['param1'];
    $param2 = $_POST['param2'];

    //saving part here

    //push notifications
    $pushService = new PushService();
    $pushService -> init();
    $pushService -> push($param1, $param2);

    //json response
    echo json_encode(array($success, $dbsavedid);
?>

Problem occurs with the push part. Now it takes lot of time for this push notification code chunk to execute because the table has grown with lot of data. Hence the iPhone app waits too long for this to execute (to get the success response to iPhone).

Hence is there any way to make this push part asynchronous and send a response to iPhone side using the echo other than using a separate script for push notifications? Also note that I need to get some data from saved records as well to iPhone side. So I will need the output to reach the iPhone side.

Answer 1

The actual reasons for this is, my server provider has blocked port 2195 and port 2196 which is used by apple APNS. I believe once you allow it this will be fixed and should work like earlier.