laravel-slack

A very tiny and lightweight integration with the Slack API for posting notifications or any kind of messages to your team's Slack account.

• Requirements
• Installation
• Registering the Package
• Configuration
• Usage

Requirements

• Laravel Framework 5+

Installation

Using Composer package manager, install this package by running following command in your project root:

$ composer require jivesh/laravel-slack

Registering the Package

• This package supports auto discovery feature introduced in Laravel v5.5, hence it is auto registered. You may skip to 'Configuration' section below.

• If your app is on Laravel v5.4 or below, follow below steps to register:

• In your config/app.php file, append the following code into your providers array for integrating the Service Provider for package.

/**
 * Package Service Provider
 */

'providers' => [
    // ...

    Gahlawat\Slack\SlackServiceProvider::class,
],

• Again in your config/app.php file, copy the following code into your aliases array for a nice Laravel syntax using Facades.

/**
 * Package Alias
 */

'aliases' => [
    // ...

    'Slack' => Gahlawat\Slack\Facade\Slack::class,
],

Configuration

• Create an incoming webhook on your Slack account for the package to use and copy the generated Webhook URL.

• Run the following command in project root directory to generate config file for package.

$ php artisan vendor:publish

• Now edit config/slack.php and paste value for incoming-webhook generated in the first step above.
• You may optionally set a default username and emoji icon displayed in your Slack app from here.

Usage

• Send any message in real time to your Slack account using this anywhere in your php code:

\Slack::send("your-message");

• The backslash indicates global namespace scope for this function, you may import Slack namespace on top of your file by using it:

use Slack;

• Then, you can call this Facade without a \ as:

Slack::send("your-message");

• You can change the default name and/or display icon in your Slack app for any message by using optional second and third parameter.
• To send this message privately to any user, use the fourth parameter as @username
• To send this message publicly to any channel, use the fourth parameter as #channel

Slack::send("your-message" [,"display-name" [,"display-emoji"] [,"#channel" or "@username"]]);

// here [] indicates optional parameters

See this cheat sheet of available emoji icons.