Laravel Mobily.ws Notification Channel

This package makes it easy to send notifications using MobilyWs with Laravel 5.4.

Contents

• Installation
  • Package Installation
  • Set up mobily.ws account
• Usage
  • Credentials
  • Create Notification
  • Routing SMS Notifications
  • Sending SMS
  • Scheduled SMS
  • Available Message methods
• TODO
• Changelog
• Testing
• Security
• Contributing
• License

Installation

Package Installation

Install the package using composer:

composer require alhoqbani/laravel-mobily-ws-notification

Add service provider to your array of providers in config/app.php

You don't need to do this step for laravel 5.5+

        NotificationChannels\MobilyWs\MobilyWsServiceProvider::class,

Publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="NotificationChannels\MobilyWs\MobilyWsServiceProvider"

Set up mobily.ws account

You must have an account with MobilyWs to be able to use this package.

This package has no affiliation with mobily.ws whatsoever.

Credentials.

There are two methods of authentication when using mobily.ws api.

You could send requests using your login credentials (mobile/password), or by using the apiKey which you can generate from your mobily.ws account.

You must add mobily.ws credentials to your .env file.

# Mobile number and password used for log in.
MOBILY_WS_MOBILE= 
MOBILY_WS_PASSWORD=
# or your apiKey:
MOBILY_WS_API_KEY=
# name/number of the sender which must be approved by mobily.ws for GCC
MOBILY_WS_SENDER=

Which method to use:

You can define the authentication method you would like to use by editing your config/mobilyws file.

You could choose: auth, password, or auto.

if you choose auto, we will look for the apiKey key first, if not found, we look for the mobile and password

// config/mobilyws

    // Authentication mode
    'authentication' => 'auto',
    
    // Set yor login credentials to communicate with mobily.ws Api
    'mobile' => env('MOBILY_WS_MOBILE'),
    'password' =>  env('MOBILY_WS_PASSWORD'),
    
    // Or use the generated apiKey from your mobily.ws account
    'apiKey' => env('MOBILY_WS_API_KEY'),
    
    // Name of Sender must be approved by mobily.ws
    'sender' => env('MOBILY_WS_SENDER'),

Usage

Create new notification:

Make a new notification class using laravel artisan

php artisan make:notification UserRegistered

and configure the notification class to use MobilyWsChannel.

Or you could use our custom artisan command:

php artisan mobilyws:notification UserRegistered

The toMobilyWs method should return a string of the text message to be sent or an instance of MobilyWsMessage.

See Available Message methods for more details.

<?php

namespace App\Notifications;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
use NotificationChannels\MobilyWs\MobilyWsChannel;
use NotificationChannels\MobilyWs\MobilyWsMessage;

class UserRegistered extends Notification
{
    /**
     * Get the notification's delivery channels.
     *
     * @param  mixed  $notifiable
     * @return array
     */
    public function via($notifiable)
    {
        return [MobilyWsChannel::class];
    }
    
    /**
     * Get the text message representation of the notification
     *
     * @param  mixed      $notifiable
     * @param \NotificationChannels\MobilyWs\MobilyWsMessage $msg
     *
     * @return \NotificationChannels\MobilyWs\MobilyWsMessage|string
     */
    public function toMobilyWs($notifiable, MobilyWsMessage $msg)
    {
        return "Dear $notifiable->name, welcome to our website";
    }
}

Routing SMS Notifications:

When sending notifications via the MobilyWs channel, the notification system will automatically look for a phone_number attribute on the notifiable entity. If you would like to customize the phone number the notification is delivered to, define a routeNotificationForMobilyWs method on the entity:

<?php

    namespace App;

    use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
    use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

    class User extends Authenticatable
    {
        use Notifiable;

        /**
         * Route notifications for the MobilyWs channel.
         *
         * @return string
         */
        public function routeNotificationForMobilyWs()
        {
            return $this->mobile;
        }
    }

routeNotificationForMobilyWs should return a mobile number to which the SMS message will be sent.

Please note that the mobile number must start with the country code without leading zeros.

For example, 9665xxxxxxxx

Sending SMS:

use App\Notifications\UserRegistered;

$user = App\User::first();

$user->notify(new UserRegistered());

Scheduled SMS

MobilyWs Api allows for sending scheduled message which will be sent on the defined date/time.

Please note that if you define time in the past, the message will be sent immediately by mobily.ws. This library will not check if the defined time is in the future.

You can define the time on which the message should be sent by mobily.ws by calling time method on the MobilyWsMessage instance.

    public function toMobilyWs($notifiable)
    {
        return (new MobilyWsMessage)
            ->text("Message text")
            ->time(Carbon::parse("+1 week);
    }

The time method accepts either a DateTime object or a timestamp.

Available Message methods

In your notification, you must define a method toMobilyWs which will receive the notifiable entity (e.g User model) and an instance of MobilyWsMessage.

This method should return the text of the message to be sent as an SMS to mobily.ws or an instance of MobilyWsMessage.

<?php

use NotificationChannels\MobilyWs\MobilyWsMessage;
            //
    /**
     * Get the text message of the SMS.
     *
     * @param  mixed  $notifiable
     * @return \NotificationChannels\MobilyWs\MobilyWsMessage|string
     */
    public function toMobilyWs($notifiable)
    {
        return MobilyWsMessage::create("Text message");
    }

You can also pass the message to MobilyWsMessage constructor:

return new MobilyWsMessage("Text message");

or set the text message using the msg() method:

    public function toMobilyWs($notifiable, MobilyWsMessage $msg)
    {
        return $msg->text($this->message);
    }

Method toMobilyWs will receive an instance of MobilyWsMessage as the 2nd argument.

list of available methods :

text() To add the content of the text message

time() To set time of the scheduled sms.

TODO

• [ ] Validate mobile numbers
• [ ] Validate text messages type and length
• [ ] Validate given time is in the future.
• [x] Verify method toMobilyWs existence and config file.
• [x] Add the option to send Scheduled SMS
• [ ] Add the the rest of params (MsgID, msgKey, deleteKey, ~~timeSend~~, ~~dateSend~~)
• [ ] Translate mobily.ws error messages
• [x] Create artisan command to made mobily.ws notifications
• [ ] Add list of fired event to the documentation.

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Testing

$ composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.