How do I send a notification to my phone from PHP?
POST to your Lert link with cURL. One call with a title and body and your phone buzzes — even locked in your pocket. No account, no API keys, no SDK. PHP's cURL extension is all you need.
Whether it's a WordPress plugin, a Laravel controller, or a plain PHP form handler, the moments worth knowing about — an order, a contact form, a failed cron — all happen server-side while you're doing something else. Lert puts them on your lock screen. PHP already bundles the cURL extension, so there's nothing to composer require; because your Lert link is the credential, there's no key to manage either.
Set it up in under 30 seconds
- Download the app. Open it once — there's no account to create. Your private link is on screen.
- Copy your link. One tap copies
https://lert.dev/p/your-id. - POST to it from PHP. Drop the cURL snippet wherever you want the buzz.
Load the page or run the job and your phone buzzes.
Example: with PHP cURL
$ch = curl_init("https://lert.dev/p/your-id"); curl_setopt_array($ch, [ CURLOPT_POST => true, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ["Content-Type: application/json"], CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([ "title" => "New order 🎉", "body" => "Order #1042 — $58.00", "tag" => "orders", ]), ]); curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch);
No auth header, no SDK — just cURL. Add it to a WooCommerce hook, a Laravel event listener, or a bare if in a script. Set a short CURLOPT_TIMEOUT so a slow network never holds up the page render.
Tip: in WordPress you can skip raw cURL and use wp_remote_post() with the same JSON body — it respects your site's HTTP settings and proxies. Either way it's one call to your Lert link.
Related setups
- Get notified when an order comes in
- Get notified when a form is submitted
- Send a notification from a bash script
- Send a push notification in one line
See the full PHP guide and the form submission notifications use case. It's free for one channel and 50 notifications a day; Lert Pro is $2.99/month for unlimited. Full details in the docs.
One cURL, straight to your phone.
Download Lert, copy your link, add one cURL call. Your phone buzzes when it matters.