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This package is used to send WhatsApp OTP notification using WhatsApp Cloud API on Laravel.

Installation

Install package via composer

composer require timedoor/whatsapp-otp

Install config and notification file for WhatsApp OTP

php artisan whatsapp-otp:install

Set Up WhatsApp Cloud API

This package requires a Meta developer account and a Meta developer app to start sending message with WhatsApp. To set up Meta developer app follow the instructions as described in WhatsApp Cloud API documentation.

Create WhatsApp Template

WhatsApp API only allows you to start conversation by sending a template message. In order to send an OTP notfication, you must make a WhatsApp template first. You can take a look at the WhatsApp Template documentation page for more details.

For multi language template, you can create separate templates for different languages with the same template name.

Configure WhatsApp Cloud API

Copy the access token and phone number ID from Whatsapp app dashboard.

Then place your access token, phone number ID, template name, and template language in the .env file as below.

WHATSAPP_ACCESS_TOKEN=
WHATSAPP_PHONE_ID=
WHATSAPP_TEMPLATE_NAME=
WHATSAPP_TEMPLATE_LANG=

The config settings of WhatsApp API can be seen on config/whatsapp.php file.

Usage

This package comes with notification class WhatsappOtpNotification that is stored in app/Notifications folder.

To send OTP notification you can use notify method provided by Notifiable trait like the example below.

$notification = new WhatsappOtpNotification();
$event->otp->notify($notification);