Vonage Package for Laravel

Introduction

This is a Laravel Service Provider for integrating the Vonage PHP Client Library.

Requirements

This Package is for use with Laravel versions 9.x and upwards due to PHP Version restrictions. You will need to be running PHP8.0 and upwards - for older compatibility you will need to look at previous versions.

Installation

Using Composer, run the terminal command:

composer require vonage/vonage-laravel

Dealing with Guzzle Client issues

By default, this package uses vonage/client, which includes a Guzzle adapter for accessing the API. Some other libraries supply their own Guzzle adapter, leading to composer not being able to resolve a list of dependencies. You may get an error when adding vonage/vonage-laravel to your application because of this.

The Vonage client allows you to override the HTTP adapter that is being used. This takes a bit more configuration, but this package allows you to use vonage/client-core to supply your own HTTP adapter.

To do this:

Run composer require vonage/client-core to install the Core SDK with Composer.

Install your own httplug-compatible adapter. For example, to use Symfony's HTTP Client:

composer require symfony/http-client php-http/message-factory php-http/httplug nyholm/psr7

composer require vonage/vonage-laravel to install this package

In your .env file, add the following configuration:

VONAGE_HTTP_CLIENT="Symfony\\Component\\HttpClient\\HttplugClient"

You can now pull the Vonage\Client object from the Laravel Service Container, or use the Facade provided by this package.

Configuration

You can use artisan vendor:publish to copy the distribution configuration file to your app's config directory:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Vonage\Laravel\VonageServiceProvider"

Then update config/vonage.php with your credentials. Alternatively, you can update your .env file with the following:

VONAGE_KEY=my_api_key
VONAGE_SECRET=my_secret

Optionally, you could also set an application_id and private_key if required:

VONAGE_APPLICATION_ID=my_application_id
VONAGE_PRIVATE_KEY=./private.key

Private keys can either be a path to a file, like above, or the string of the key itself:

VONAGE_PRIVATE_KEY="-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n[...]\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n"

VONAGE_PRIVATE_KEY="-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
[...]
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----
"

Usage

To use the Vonage Client Library you can use the Facade, or request the instance from the service container:

$text = new \Vonage\SMS\Message\SMS($toNumber, $fromNumber, 'Test SMS using Laravel');
Vonage::sms()->send($text);

$vonage = app('Vonage\Client');
$text = new \Vonage\SMS\Message\SMS($toNumber, $fromNumber, 'Test SMS using Laravel');
$vonage->sms()->send($text);

If you're using private key authentication, you can make a voice call:

$outboundCall = new \Vonage\Voice\OutboundCall(
    new \Vonage\Voice\Endpoint\Phone('14843331234'),
    new \Vonage\Voice\Endpoint\Phone('14843335555')
);
$outboundCall
    ->setAnswerWebhook(
        new \Vonage\Voice\Webhook('https://example.com/answer')
    )
    ->setEventWebhook(
        new \Vonage\Voice\Webhook('https://example.com/event')
    )
;

$response = Vonage::voice()->createOutboundCall($outboundCall);

For more information on using the Vonage Client library, see the official client library repository.