Laravel Messages is a very simple demo app to show a Messages API integration with Laravel 7. It receives and responds to WhatsApp messages, sends Messages to a whitelisted number, and logs the incoming status events.
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We've tried to keep things short and sweet!
- Clone this repo and run
composer install(requires PHP 7.3+). - Copy
.env.exampleto.env, add your credentials to theNEXMO_*fields at the bottom. - Run your application with
php artisan serve. - If you're working locally, run ngrok to expose the port locally; copy the URL.
- On the Dashboard, go to the Messages API Sandbox, and whitelist your phone for WhatsApp.
- On the same page, configure the webhook URLs for incoming messages and status events:
- incoming messages should be
[url you copied earlier]/webhooks/inbound - status webhooks should go to
[url you copied earlier]/webhooks/status
- incoming messages should be
You're all set!
Visit [url of project]/messages and enter the number of the whitelisted phone (in E163 format, e.g. 447770007777. You should get a WhatsApp message.
We love to hear from you so if you have questions, comments or find a bug in the project, let us know! You can either:
- Open an issue on this repository.
- Before you start contributing, check out the Code of Conduct.
- Tweet at us! We're @VonageDev on Twitter
- Or join the Nexmo Community Slack
- Check out the Developer Documentation at https://developer.nexmo.com