README

Telco is a package wrapper around the AfricasTalking api. This package has been developed for Laravel 5+.

The package makes it easy to send an sms from your application to a phone.

Installation

As other laravel packages, Telco is installed via composer.

In your terminal at the project root run

composer require kagga/telco

After add the service provider to config/app.php in the providers section

'providers' => [ 
            Kagga\Telco\TelcoServiceProvider::class 
    ],

Then also add the Facade aliases in config/app.php within the alias section.

'aliases' => [
        'Telco' => Kagga\Telco\facades\Telco::class,
    ],

Configuration

Now we are going to config the AfricasTalking api. Head over to your account or sign up to get your api key and username and jey hold of them.

Publish the package config file to the config folder in your app by running this in your terminal.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=config

The config file called telco.php will be moved to config/telco.php.

Then add your username and api key to the .env file using these keys

SMS_USERNAME=yourUsername
SMS_API_KEY=yourapi-key

Thats all with the configuration.

You are about to get done, just one for thing. You can test out whether its working by serving your app php artisan serve and checking http://localhost/telco/send The view at this url comes bundled in the package only for testing purposes.

A success message will be showed after you send the message or an error message if something goes wrong.

Usage

At the moment the package has two methods, one for sending send an sms and the other the api that exposes the AfricasTalking Gateway.

With the api method you can access all the public methods in the AfricasTalkingGateway .

Example code

Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route::post('/telco/send', function (\Kagga\Telco\contracts\TelcoInterface $telco) {

  $phonenumber = request('tel'); //Used the request laravel helper to get the phone number from a phone

  $message = request('message'); //Getting the message from the form
  
  $results = $telco->send($phonenumber, $message);
  
  if ($results != null) {

      return "Message has been sent successful to " . $phonenumber;
  }
});

You can also use the Telco facade that comes with the package to send a message.

Telco::send($phonenumber, $message);

Do not forget to add the facade import statement use Kagga\Telco\facades\Telco;

Thats it.

Thanks for using this package.

Let me know what you develop with this package. By sending me an email Johnkagga@gmail.com or @johnkagga