I think Growl is a pretty awesome little notification app, I use it for absolutely everything and thought I would cook up a simple way for anyone to relay growl messages to their nodes – even from remote events.

What you need :

• A Local web server (with PHP of course)
• Remote machine must have curl (unless you are good with javascript)

Download the class.growl.php from google code and toss it in your web root.  Create a new file called growler.php or growlnotify.php.  Within it you can paste the following :

Set your webserver to listen on some obscure port and forward it through your router.  You can now use curl to post messages from a remote location to all of the nodes you specified in the associative array above  as such :

curl -d “message=some message `date`” http://your-web-server-ip:port/filename.php

This is a simplified explanation how I wrote Growl notifications for Asteristickies.

Have fun.

This morning I added Growl notifications to Asteristickies using a wonderful PHP class found here.

You do not need to add any third party software to make this work, presuming you have Growl already installed.  Configuration is minimal and notifications can be sent to any routable hostname . address.