Ever wonder how social media websites pops up a notification for every action that happen on your timeline?

This real time notification system keeps track of every action you and your friends do on these social channels. Notifications form a big part of the real time engagement feature of these platforms. Even you are not online, you could still receive these notifications. A PHP notification system could be could be easily built using a mix of vanilla PHP and JavaScript. This system provides real time notification in a PHP powered application.

In this article I will show you how to create a simple notification system by using PHP and AJAX. I will also use jQuery and Bootstrap. 

Let�s get started.

Cloudways has custom-built MySQL manager and you get a pre-built database with every PHP application. Just move to the Application Access area and launch the database manager.

Now run the following query in the SQL box.