README

This package makes it easy to send WhatsApp messages using Chat API with Laravel 5.

Contents

• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
  • Available Message methods

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require wilsonglasser/laravel-chatapi-whatsapp

You must install the service provider:

// config/app.php
'providers' => [
    ...
    NotificationChannels\ChatAPI\ChatAPIServiceProvider::class,
],

Configuration

Configure your credentials:

// config/services.php
...
'chatapi' => [
    'token'          => env('CHATAPI_TOKEN', ''),
    'api_url'       => env('CHATAPI_URL', ''),
],
...

Usage

You can now use the channel in your via() method inside the Notification class.

use NotificationChannels\ChatAPI\ChatAPIChannel;
use NotificationChannels\ChatAPI\ChatAPIMessage;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;

class InvoicePaid extends Notification
{
    public function via($notifiable)
    {
        return [ChatAPIChannel::class];
    }

    public function toChatAPI($notifiable)
    {
        return ChatAPIMessage::create()
            ->to($notifiable->phone) // your user phone
            ->file('/path/to/file','My Photo.jpg')
            ->content('Your invoice has been paid');
    }
}

Routing a message

You can either send the notification by providing with the chat id of the recipient to the to($phone) method like shown in the above example or add a routeNotificationForChatAPI() method in your notifiable model:

...
/**
 * Route notifications for the Telegram channel.
 *
 * @return int
 */
public function routeNotificationForChatAPI()
{
    return $this->phone;
}
...

Available Message methods

• to($phone): (integer) Recipient's phone.
• content('message'): (string) Message.
• file('/path/to/file','My Photo.jpg'): (string) File real path, you can also send the file contents and pass two additional params for file name and file mime type (required)
• file('/path/to/file','My Photo.jpg','image/jpg')