topcu/toplusmslaravel

Laravel Notification for toplusmsapi.com

toplusmsapi SMS Notifications for Laravel 5.3

Introduction

This is a simple Notifications channel for Laravel., _(*1)

Installation

First, you'll need to require the package with Composer:, _(*2)

composer require topcu/toplusmslaravel

Aftwards, run composer update from your command line., _(*3)

Then, update config/app.php by adding an entry for the service provider., _(*4)

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Topcu\TopluSms\TopluSmsProvider::class,
];

Then, update config/services.php by adding your toplusms credentials., _(*5)

return [
   // ...
    ,
        'toplusms' => [
            'username' => env('TOPLUSMS_USERNAME'),
            'password' => env('TOPLUSMS_PASSWORD'),
            'from' => env('TOPLUSMS_FROM', null), // Can be ovverdiden with $message->from() 
        ]
    // ...
];

Usage

Routing sms notifications

In order to send sms messages, you need to specify recipient for each notifiable entity. For instance in app/user.php, _(*6)

    // ...
    public function routeNotificationForSms(){
        return $this->phone;
    }
    // ...

Sending notification

via Method

In your notification class you can define channel as:, _(*7)

    // ...
    public function via($notifiable)
    {
        return ['sms'];
    }
    // ...

toSMS Method

You also need to define, toSms method. You can: 1. Send a simple string as:, _(*8)

    // ...
    public function toSms($notifiable)
    {
        return "Hello World!";
    }
    // ...

1. Or define a from (sender) to override config: php // ... public function toSms($notifiable) { $message = new SmsMessage("Hello World"); $message->from("5xxxxxxxxx"); return $message; } // ...