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Bird.com API Support for Laravel

1. Introduction
   • Why This Package?
2. Installation
   • Prerequisites
   • Step-by-Step Installation
3. Configuration
4. Usage
   • 1. Contact Management
     • Retrieve Contacts
     • Retrieve a Single Contact
     • Create or Update Contacts
     • Delete Contacts
     • Contact Model Overview
   • 2. Sending Notifications
     • Supported Notification Channels
     • Example: Sending SMS Notifications
5. Exception Handling
6. Contributing
7. License
8. Contact

Overview

The Laravel Bird Package simplifies integrating the powerful MessageBird API into your Laravel applications. It provides a user-friendly way to manage contacts and send notifications via SMS, WhatsApp, email, and more. This package is designed to make communication between Laravel and Bird (AKA MessageBird) seamless and efficient.

Why This Package?

• Ease of Use: Straightforward methods to interact with Bird's API.
• Multi-Channel Support: Send notifications via SMS, WhatsApp, Email, Telegram, and more.
• Contact Management: Create, update, retrieve, or delete contacts in Bird directly from your application.
• Error Handling: Built-in exception classes for better debugging and recovery.

Installation

Prerequisites

Before installing this package, ensure your system meets the following requirements:

• PHP: Version ^8.3
• Laravel: Version ^10.0, ^11.0, ^12.0
• Bird Account

Step-by-Step Installation

1. Add the package to your Laravel project using Composer:

2. Once installed, the package will automatically register the BirdServiceProvider using Laravel's package auto-discovery.

3. Run the following command to publish the package configuration:

   This will create a config/bird.php file in your application.

Configuration

The config/bird.php file contains all configurable options, including:

• API Access Key: Set your Bird.com API access key via BIRD_ACCESS_KEY in the .env file.
• Workspace ID: Define your workspace using the BIRD_WORKSPACE_ID environment variable.
• Channel IDs: Specify channel IDs (e.g., SMS, WhatsApp, Email) for notifications in your .env file:

For detailed configuration options, refer to the comments within the config/bird.php file.

Usage

1. Contact Management

This package provides functionality for managing contacts via the Bird API. Below are the key actions you can perform with the ContactService.

Retrieve Contacts

You can retrieve a list of contacts using the index() method. This allows you to specify the number of contacts to retrieve and whether to reverse the order of the results. To be able to retrieve the contacts, make sure you have specified your BIRD_WORKSPACE_ID in you .env file.

Parameters:

• limit: The number of contacts to retrieve (default is 10).
• reverse: Set to true to retrieve contacts in reverse order.
• nextPageToken: Use for pagination when retrieving the next set of results.

Retrieving a single contact

You can also retrieve a single contact using the show() method. This allows you to get only one contact by specifying its id.

Parameters:

• contactId: The id of the contact

Create or Update Contacts

You can create or update a contact by passing a Contact object to the createOrUpdate() method. This method requires the contact's identifier (phone number or email address) to determine whether to create a new contact or update an existing one.

Parameters:

• Contact: The Contact object containing the contact information.
• IdentifierKey: The identifier type used to identify the contact (either PHONE_NUMBER or EMAIL_ADDRESS).

Delete Contacts

To delete a contact, simply call the delete() method with the contact's ID.

Parameters:

• contactId: The unique ID of the contact to be deleted.

Return Values:

• Returns true if the deletion was successful.
• Returns an error response if the deletion failed.

Contact Model Overview

The Contact model provides an easy-to-use interface for building and manipulating contact records before sending them to the Bird API.

Example Contact Creation

Contact Methods:

• displayName(string $name): Sets the display name of the contact.
• phoneNumber(string $number): Sets the phone number of the contact.
• emailAdress(string $email): Sets the email address of the contact.
• attribute(string $attribute, mixed $value): Adds additional attributes to the contact.
• toArray(): Converts the contact into an array for sending to Bird API.

Ensure to validate the phone number using the regex defined in the configuration (bird.phone_number_regex) before sending it to the API.

2. Sending Notifications

This package supports a variety of notification channels, including SMS, WhatsApp, email, and more. Below are the details on using the SMS channel for sending notifications, leveraging predefined templates, and handling advanced use cases.

Supported Notification Channels

Currently, we only support the SMS channel. This is not going to be the case soon though, as we are planning on adding support for WhatsApp, facebook and telegram notification channels.

Example: Sending SMS Notifications

The SMSChannel allows you to send SMS notifications by leveraging Laravel notification system. Make sure you are allowed to send SMS notifications using Bird. You need to configure an SMS channel before you can send SMS notifications.

Notification Class Example

Define a custom notification class implementing the toSMS method.

Sending the Notification

You can send the notification using Laravel's Notification facade or the notify method.

Exception Handling

The package uses custom exceptions to handle errors:

• InvalidParameterException: Thrown when a parameter is invalid.
• ConnectionException: Thrown when there is a connection error with the API.
• NotAnSmsMessageException: Thrown when the provided message is not an instance of SMSMessage.
• NotificationNotSent: Thrown when the notification could not be sent.

Make sure to catch these exceptions in your code to handle errors gracefully.

Contributing

Please submit issues and pull requests to the GitHub repository.

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Contact

For any inquiries or support, please contact 101Media.