Textcus notifications channel for Laravel

This package makes it easy to send notifications using textcus with Laravel 6.x, 7.x & 8.x.

Contents

• Installation
• Setting up the Textcus service
• Usage
• Testing
• Contributing
• License

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require alhaji-aki/laravel-textcus

Setting up the textcus service

Add your Textcus sender id and api key to your config/services.php:

// config/services.php
...
'textcus' => [
    'api_key' => env('TEXTCUS_API_KEY'),
    'sender_id' => env('TEXTCUS_SENDER_ID'),
],
...

Usage

To route Textcus notifications to the proper phone number, define a routeNotificationForTextcus method on your notifiable entity:

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable;

    /**
     * Route notifications for the Textcus channel.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Notifications\Notification  $notification
     * @return string
     */
    public function routeNotificationForTextcus()
    {
        // NOTE: this is because you have to remove the + sign infront of the number in international formt
        return substr($this->mobile, 1);
    }
}

You can use the channel in your via() method inside the notification:

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
use AlhajiAki\Textcus\Messages\TextcusMessage;

class AccountApproved extends Notification
{
    public function via($notifiable)
    {
        return ['textcus'];
    }

    public function toTextcus($notifiable)
    {
        return (new TextcusMessage())
            ->content("Your {$notifiable->service} account was approved!");
    }
}

Testing

vendor/bin/phpunit

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

License

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