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Twitter notification channel for Laravel

This package makes it easy to send notifications using Twitter with Laravel. If you have an older Laravel application, you can use version 1.*. But be aware that these versions are no longer maintained.

Contents

• About
• Installation
• Setting up the Twitter service
• Usage
  • Publish Twitter status update
  • Publish Twitter status update with images
  • Send a direct message
• Handle multiple Twitter Accounts
• Changelog
• Testing
• Security
• Contributing
• Credits
• License

About

This package is part of the Laravel Notification Channels project. It provides additional Laravel Notification channels to the ones given by Laravel itself.

The Twitter channel makes it possible to send out Laravel notifications as a Twitter status update(post on the timeline) or as a direct message.

Installation

If you prefer a video, there is also an introduction video available for you. If not, just read on.

You can install this package via composer:

The service provider gets loaded automatically.

Setting up the Twitter service

You will need to create a Twitter app to use this channel. Within this app, you will find the keys and access tokens. Place them inside your .env file. To load them, add this to your config/services.php file:

This will load the Twitter app data from the .env file. Make sure to use the same keys you have used there like TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY.

Usage

To use this package, you need to create a notification class, like NewsWasPublished from the example below, in your Laravel application. Make sure to check out Laravel's documentation for this process.

Publish a Twitter status update

Take a closer look at the toTwitter method. Here we define what kind of Twitter message we want to trigger. In this case, it is a status update message, which is just a new message in your timeline.

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Publish Twitter status update with images

It is possible to publish images with your status update too. You have to pass the image path to the withImage method. If you want to use multiple images, just pass an array of paths.

Send a direct message

To send a Twitter direct message to a specific user, you will need the TwitterDirectMessage class. Provide the Twitter user handler as the first parameter and the the message as the second one. ``

You can also provide the user ID instead of the screen name. This would prevent an extra Twitter API call. Make sure to pass it as an integer when you do.

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Handle multiple Twitter Accounts

There might be cases where you need to handle multiple Twitter accounts. This means you need to be able to change the provided keys and tokens of your Twitter app. Luckily, Laravel can help you here. In your notifiable model, you can define the routeNotifiactionForTwitter method. Here you can override the provided settings.

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Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information about what has changed recently.

Testing

Security

If you discover any security-related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• Christoph Rumpel
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.