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BotMan with Slack

Note:

You have three possibilities to set up Slack to connect with BotMan.

Use a bot with the Slack Realtime API

Pros:

  • Your bot user will be a real bot and be able to join channels / talk to in direct messages
  • Very easy to set up

Note: Until now, you can not yet use interactive message buttons with BotMan and Slack Realtime API.

Use an outgoing webhook

Pros: Very easy to set up

Cons:

  • You don't have a bot user in your channel / no direct messaging
  • You can not send and interact with interactive message buttons
  • Your bot will be limited to specific channels (those you set up when adding the outgoing webhook to your Slack team)

Use a bot in combination with the Slack Event API

Pros: All BotMan features available

Cons:

  • Pretty cumbersome to set up Note: Let the folks from SlackHQ know this. If we make enough noise, they'll hopefully simplify the bot token creation process!
  • Your bot user will appear offline

Usage with the Realtime API

Note: The Realtime API requires the additional compose package mpociot/slack-client to be installed.

Simply install it using composer require mpociot/slack-client.

Add a new Bot user to your Slack team and take note of the bot token slack gives you. Use this token as your slack_token configuration parameter.

As the Realtime API needs a websocket, you need to create a PHP script that will hold your bot logic, as you can not use the HTTP controller way for it.

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Mpociot\BotMan\BotManFactory;
use React\EventLoop\Factory;

$loop = Factory::create();
$botman = BotManFactory::createForRTM([
    'slack_token' => 'YOUR-SLACK-BOT-TOKEN'
], $loop);

$botman->hears('keyword', function($bot) {
    $bot->reply('I heard you! :)');
});

$botman->hears('convo', function($bot) {
    $bot->startConversation(new ExampleConversation());
});

$loop->run();

Then simply run this file by using php my-bot-file.php - your bot should connect to your Slack team and respond to the messages.

Usage with an outgoing webhook

Add a new "Outgoing Webhook" integration to your Slack team - this URL needs to point to the controller where your BotMan bot is living in.

To let BotMan listen to all incoming messages, do not specify a trigger word, but define a channel instead.

If you are using Laravel Valet, you can get an external URL for testing using the valet share command.

With the Webhook implementation, there is no need to add a slack_token configuration. Yes - that is all you need to do, to use BotMan