BotMan Bundle

BotMan integration for Symfony

This is a bundle to use BotMan framework in Symfony.

Supported drivers

Only the marked drivers are supported. See the official driver documentation to have more information:

• Amazon Alexa
• Cisco Spark
• Facebook Messenger
• Hangouts Chat
• HipChat
• Microsoft Bot Framework
• Nexmo
• Slack
• Telegram
• Twilio
• Web
• WeChat

Installation

Step 1: Download the bundle

Install the library via Composer by running the following command:

composer require sgomez/botman-bundle

Step 2: Enable the bundle

You can skip this step if you are using Symfony Flex.

Enable the bundle in your app/AppKernel.php file:

<?php
// app/AppKernel.php

public function registerBundles()
{
    $bundles = array(
        // ...
        new Sgomez\Bundle\BotmanBundle\BotmanBundle(),
        // ...
    );
}

Step 3: Configure the bundle

You can see a template of config file by running console config:dump-reference botman.

botman:
    drivers:
        telegram:
            parameters:
                token: ~
        facebook:
            parameters:
                token: ~
                app_secret: ~
                verification: ~
                start_button_payload: ~         # Optional
                greeting:                       # Optional
                    # Array of
                    -
                        locale:               ~ # Required
                        text:                 ~ # Required
                whitelisted_domains:  []        # Optional

You only must add the drivers than you want to use.

Step 4: Configure the webhook

Add the router configuration for the webhook in your routing.yaml:

BotmanBundle:
    resource: .
    type: extra

The webhook path is /botman by default, but we recommend to change it by security issues.

botman:
    path:                 /botman57637357-65ce-4faf-a9d9-ee2c13011d87

Now, you must create the webhook controller class. By default is configured as App\Controller\WebhookController:

<?php
// file: src/Controller/WebhookController.php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

use BotMan\BotMan\BotMan;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class WebhookController
{
    public function __invoke(BotMan $bot): Response
    {
        // Add your logic here
        
        // Echo bot example
        $bot->fallback(function (BotMan $bot): void {
            $bot->reply($bot->getMessage()->getText());
        });

        // Stop touching
        $bot->listen();

        return new Response('', Response::HTTP_OK);
    }
}

If you want to change the controller class or you are not using Symfony Flex, you will need to specify the controller class in the config file:

botman:
    controller:           AppBundle\Controller\WebhookController

To know more about how to listen or send messages read the official documentation.

Services

This bundle configure the Symfony container in the BotMan instance. So, you can inject dependencies via constructor in Conversations classes.

In you want to use BotMan instance in your services, you can inject BotMan\BotMan\BotMan class or botman alias.

Drivers command

Some driver will have commands to help to configure it:

Facebook

The next commands are available:

Command	Description
botman:facebook:greeting	Configure greeting message from driver configuration
botman:facebook:info	Retrieve the current values of Messenger Profile Properties
botman:facebook:start-button	Configure Messenger Get started button from driver configuration
botman:facebook:whitelist-domains	Configure Messenger whitelisted domains from driver configuration

Telegram

Command	Description
botman:telegram:info	Retrieve the current values of Telegram bot and its webhook status
botman:telegram:webhook	Configure the system webhook to be used by Telegram bot

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository. However, this project is in very alpha status and config file format can change very quickly.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details