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Informations about the package laravel-slack-alerts

Quickly send a message to Slack

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This package can quickly send alerts to Slack. You can use this to notify yourself of any noteworthy events happening in your app.

Under the hood, a job is used to communicate with Slack. This prevents your app from failing in case Slack is down.

Want to send alerts to Discord instead? Check out laravel-discord-alerts.

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Installation

You can install the package via composer:

You can set a SLACK_ALERT_WEBHOOK env variable containing a valid Slack webhook URL. You can learn how to get a webhook URL in the Slack API docs.

Alternatively, you can publish the config file with:

This is the contents of the published config file:

Usage

To send a message to Slack, simply call SlackAlert::message() and pass it any message you want.

Sending blocks

Slack supports sending rich formatting using their Block Kit API, you can send a set of blocks using the blocks() method:

Using multiple webhooks

You can also use an alternative webhook, by specify extra ones in the config file.

The webhook to be used can be chosen using the to function.

Using a custom webhooks

The to function also supports custom webhook urls.

Sending message to an alternative channel

You can send a message to a channel other than the default one for the webhook, by passing it to the toChannel function.

Formatting

Markdown

You can format your messages with Slack's markup. Learn how in the Slack API docs.

Links are formatted differently in Slack than the classic markdown structure.

Emoji's

You can use the same emoji codes as in Slack. This means custom emoji's are also supported.

Mentioning

You can use mentions to notify users and groups. Learn how in the Slack API docs.

Usage in tests

In your tests, you can make use of the SlackAlert facade to assert whether your code sent an alert to Slack.

Of course, you can also assert that a message wasn't sent to Slack.

Testing

Changelog

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

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

License

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

Alternatives

If you want to do more complex stuff with Block Kit, we suggest using slack-php/slack-php-block-kit

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spatie/laravel-package-tools Version ^1.9.2
illuminate/contracts Version ^8.73|^9.0|^10.0|^11.0
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