Hello,

I use botman in a new Laravel 5.3 application. I have tried with the laravel starter, but i couldnt get it to work. So i started with a clean install.

As I am not very familiar with Laravel, I got it working, except the conversations. I have taken the Example conversations from the Laravel Starter.

When I use Start Conversation, the conversation is triggered and the buttons appear in Telegram. When I click a button, nothing happens.

Can it be something with the cache? As i can read in previous issues and documentation, when used in Laravel, caching is automatic handled?

Controller

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Mpociot\BotMan\BotManFactory;
use Mpociot\BotMan\BotMan;
use App\Conversations\ExampleConversation;

class BotManController extends Controller
{
	public function handle(Request $request)
	{
		$botman = app('botman');

		// Simple respond method
		$botman->hears('Hello|hi|Hi', function (BotMan $bot) {
			//Reply
			$bot->reply('Hi there :)');
		});

		$botman->hears('Start conversation', function (BotMan $bot) {
			$bot->startConversation(new ExampleConversation());
		});
		
		$botman->listen();
	}
}

Conversation

namespace App\Conversations;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Inspiring;
use Mpociot\BotMan\Answer;
use Mpociot\BotMan\Button;
use Mpociot\BotMan\Conversation;
use Mpociot\BotMan\Question;

class ExampleConversation extends Conversation
{
    /**
     * First question
     */
    public function askReason()
    {
        $question = Question::create("Huh - you woke me up. What do you need?")
            ->fallback('Unable to ask question')
            ->callbackId('ask_reason')
            ->addButtons([
                Button::create('Tell a joke')->value('joke'),
                Button::create('Give me a fancy quote')->value('quote'),
            ]);
        return $this->ask($question, function (Answer $answer) {
            if ($answer->isInteractiveMessageReply()) {
                if ($answer->getValue() === 'joke') {
                    $joke = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://api.icndb.com/jokes/random'));
                    $this->say($joke->value->joke);
                } else {
                    $this->say(Inspiring::quote());
                }
            }
        });
    }

    /**
     * Start the conversation
     */
    public function run()
    {
        $this->askReason();
    }
}

Didn't find a better place to ask this question, maybe Botman could have it's own gitter or slack? 😃

Conversation object now get serialized and deserialized from the cache by loadActiveConversation in BotMan while BotMan is an attribute of Conversation itself. I am not yet familiar with a code enough to propose how to avoid this circular dependency, however, BotMan should really be a singleton (which will help to avoid problems with cache and storage drivers that require connecting to some backend). One way to do might be to not serialize it via __sleep and rather inject current BotMan instance in getStoredConversation.

Any thoughts on this?

Is there a way to start a conversation with ->hears()?

We are wanting to have our bot ask a question every morning at a certain time, how could we go about that with a conversation?

BotMan should be able to listen for other data types, such as images, audio, location or generic attachments.

Proposed API

// Images
$botman->receivesImages(function($bot) {
   $data = $bot->getMessage()->getImages();
});

// Videos
$botman->receivesVideos(function($bot) {
   $data = $bot->getMessage()->getVideos();
});

// Audio
$botman->receivesAudio(function($bot) {
   $data = $bot->getMessage()->getAudio();
});

// Location
$botman->receivesLocation(function($bot) {
   $data = $bot->getMessage()->getLocations();
});

// Generic
$botman->receivesAttachments(function($bot) {
   $data = $bot->getMessage()->getAttachments();
});

Necessary Steps:

Images

• [X] Telegram Driver
• [X] Slack RTM Driver
• [X] Facebook Driver
• [x] MS Bot Framework Driver
• [x] WeChat Driver
• [ ] HipChat Driver

Videos

• [X] Telegram Driver
• [X] Slack RTM Driver
• [X] Facebook Driver
• [ ] MS Bot Framework Driver
• [x] WeChat Driver
• [ ] HipChat Driver

Audio

• [X] Telegram Driver
• [X] Slack RTM Driver
• [X] Facebook Driver ( @christophrumpel )
• [x] WeChat Driver
• [ ] HipChat Driver

Location

• [X] Telegram Driver
• [X] Facebook Driver ( @christophrumpel )
• [x] WeChat Driver
• [ ] HipChat Driver

Generic

• [X] Telegram Driver
• [X] Slack RTM Driver
• [X] Facebook Driver ( @christophrumpel )
• [X] MS Bot Framework Driver
• [ ] WeChat Driver
• [ ] HipChat Driver

Related issue: #169

As a Botman user developing bots for facebook messenger, I wanted to know if it is planned to add whatsapp to the Botman platform? Especially considering that the way to communicate with the api is very similar to facebook messenger.

Here I leave the links of whatsapp Business APIs

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/api/webhooks https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/api/webhooks/inbound

Thank you very much for any information.

I just made like in tutorial

use Mpociot\BotMan\BotManFactory;
use Mpociot\BotMan\BotMan;
use Mpociot\BotMan\Storages\Drivers\FileStorage;

$token = 'MY-TOKEN';
$config =  [
    'facebook_token' => $token,
    'facebook_app_secret' => 'MY-SECRET',

];

// $storage = new FileStorage(__DIR__);
// create an instance
$botman = BotManFactory::create($config);
$botman->verifyServices($token);

$botman->hears('foo', function ($bot) {
    $bot->typesAndWaits(2);
    $bot->reply('Hello World');
});
// give the bot something to listen for.
$botman->hears('.*', function (BotMan $bot) {
    $bot->reply('Hello yourself.');
});

// start listening
$botman->listen();

I see in logs...that facebook made request to my address. but no answer appear. Also didn't get anythng in error log.

Description:

For PHP 7.3 :

composer require botman/botman

returns :

[ErrorException]
"continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"?

Steps To Reproduce:

I'm using botman with laravel 5.4 when I try to run some conversation with ask function. It will result to Serialization of 'Closure' is not allowed. Example conversation:

<?php
namespace App\Conversations;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Inspiring;

use Mpociot\BotMan\Answer;
use Mpociot\BotMan\Button;
use Mpociot\BotMan\Conversation;
use Mpociot\BotMan\Question;

class ReservationConversation extends Conversation
{

    /**
     * First question
     */
    public function askReason()
    {
        $question = Question::create("Ahoj, ako ti pomozem?")
            ->fallback('Unable to ask question')
            ->addButtons([
                Button::create('Tell a joke')->value('joke'),
                Button::create('Give me a fancy quote')->value('quote'),
            ]);

        return $this->ask($question, function (Answer $answer) {
            $this->say('Hello');
        });
    }
    /**
     * Start the conversation
     */
    public function run()
    {
        $this->askReason();
    }
}

When I take a look to stack trace I see that error comes from FileStore.php

public function put($key, $value, $minutes)
    {
        $this->ensureCacheDirectoryExists($path = $this->path($key));

        $this->files->put(
            $path, $this->expiration($minutes).serialize($value), true
        );
    }

Helo, I have set up the botman project and configured facebook messenger, i can receive messages, but the reply() method does not send a message back to the user.

I have also tried using botman:tinker but no reply also.

I am using a windows 10 PC

Hi There,

Firstly, awesome library, what more can be said.

I was wondering if someone has a working example of botman->say, I am new to all of this and try as I may I can not originate messages to either skype or telegram, my own ignorance I am sure. (Got everything else working, hears, replies, conversations).

What I am trying to do is originate a message to a user, using laravel, simple get route for testing as follows:

public function testOriginate()
{
	\\ log at this point shows I get here
	$botman = app('botman');
	$botman->say('Hello There I have some interesting news','29:xxx',BotFrameworkDriver::class);
}

switching to telegram driver and user id has no effect. No errors in the log etc. Just seems to disappear into a dark abyss.

Would appreciate a push down the rabbit hole.

Thanks in advance.

For some reason, the payload that comes from Slack is empty, is that an issue with the repo, or slack?

I followed your directions, setup a route that responds with the URL verification, that works just fine, but when I send a message to the bot, Slack sends a message with the $request variable being completely empty. Am I missing something here?

• Please check if the PR fulfills these requirements

• [x] The commit message follows our guidelines
• [x] Tests for the changes have been added (for bug fixes / features)
• [ ] Docs have been added / updated (for bug fixes / features)

• What kind of change does this PR introduce? (Bug fix, feature, docs update, ...) feature

• What is the current behavior? (You can also link to an open issue here) None, when testing with the bot the default behavior is the ArrayCache. If you want to test conversations there is no way to do this in a simple manner. This cache driver is not to be used for production usage.

• What is the new behavior (if this is a feature change)? Add a simple cache implementation to use for testing reasons with the bot.

• Does this PR introduce a breaking change? (What changes might users need to make in their application due to this PR?) None.

• Other information: When creation this cache driver a location for the json files can be specified when constructing this driver. When this PR may be excepted I will add the needed documentation :-).

• BotMan Version: 2.7.7

Is it possible to tag the latest releases since 2.6.1 and most importantly get a Changelog?

I just ran composer update on my project and it pulled 2.7.7 but I don't know if there are any breaking changes. So I'm not really confident.

Very happy to see this package being updated thought. Keep up the good work! Thanks ;)

BotMan Version: 2.6.1; PHP Version: 7.3; Messaging Service(s): Hangout Driver; Laravel: 5.8;

Description:

I'm trying to originating message with say method, but it wont send any message to the recipient. I was try using email and user id, but it was return the same response of payload.

My Code : ` $email = "users/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"; // i got this from $bot->getUser()->getId() from worked conversation $message = "test";

    $config = [
        "hangouts" => [
           "token" => "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
        ]
    ];
    $botman = BotManFactory::create($config);

    $resp = $botman->say($message, $email, HangoutsDriver::class);

    dd($resp);

`

response { "text": "tesfast", "cards": [ { "sections": [ { "widgets": [] } ] } ] }

and message still wont send. please help me to find out why its not working. thank you.

Steps To Reproduce:

• Please check if the PR fulfills these requirements

• [ ] The commit message follows our guidelines
• [ ] Tests for the changes have been added (for bug fixes / features)
• [ ] Docs have been added / updated (for bug fixes / features)

• What kind of change does this PR introduce? (Bug fix, feature, docs update, ...)

docs update

• What is the current behavior? (You can also link to an open issue here)

Many people have cant use botman because of errors with installation. After a doing the instruction from official site we understand we haven't composer. After installing composer we try php artisan serve and have a 500 error with "Wooops..."

It's not clear how to start with botman on the clean installed Operating System On the web there are many questions about problems with errors. Fast search in the botman issues gives me this: 0 1 2

• What is the new behavior (if this is a feature change)?

There are many projects with "Example installation" (like nextcloud for example) I wrote a step-by-step guide to have working botman on clean Ubuntu installation

• Does this PR introduce a breaking change? (What changes might users need to make in their application due to this PR?)

Absolutely NO!

• Other information:

• BotMan Version: 2.0.#
• PHP Version: 7.1.33
• Messaging Service(s): Facebook Messenger
• Cache Driver:

Description:

I'm trying to use ButtonTemplate but it doesn't work

$bot->reply(ButtonTemplate::create('Hello world')
    ->addButton(ElementButton::create('button1')->type('postback')->payload('Click me!'))
);

• BotMan Version: 2.6.1
• PHP Version: 7.4
• Messaging Service(s): Telegram
• Cache Driver: file

Description:

I need to skip Botman middleware in tests. The default Laravel Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware trait doesn't disable Botman middleware in tests. I also tried to mock it but without success:

I have a CreateUniverse Matching middleware. First I resolve it through the Service Containter:

//
// botman.php
//

$middleware = resolve(CreateUniverse::class);

$botman->hears('hi', function (BotMan $bot) {
    $bot->reply('hello');
})->middleware($middleware);

Then I'm trying to mock it:

//
// RoutesTests.php
//

$middleware_double = Mockery::mock(CreateUniverse::class);

$middleware_double->shouldReceive('matching')
    ->once()
    ->with(Mockery::any())
    ->andReturn(true);

$this->app->instance(CreateUniverse::class, $middleware_double);

$this->bot
    ->receives('hi')
    ->assertReply('hello');

But get an error:

Mockery\Exception\InvalidCountException: Method matching(<Any>) from Mockery_0_App_Http_Middleware_CreateUniverse should be called exactly 1 times but called 0 times.

It looks like my mock is not applied.