Laravel Front SMS

Send SMS to your users with Laravel and Front SMS Gateway API through the traditional notification interface of Laravel.

The package support outbound and inbound SMS, as well as and incoming delivery reports.

Quick usage example

Create new SMS message

php artisan make:sms WelcomeMessage

Adjust your newly created message.

<?php

namespace App\Notifications\Sms;

use RolfHaug\FrontSms\Notifications\SmsNotification;

class WelcomeMessage extends SmsNotification
{
    public $message = 'Hi %s, today was a good day!';

    public function getMessage($notifiable)
    {
        return vsprintf($this->message, [
            $notifiable->name,
        ]);
    }
}

Send it through the notifiable user.

$user = App\User::first();

$user->notify(new \App\Notifications\Sms\WelcomeMessage);

Installation

The Laravel Front SMS package can be installed via composer:

composer require rolfhaug/laravel-front-sms

The package will automatically register a service provider.

You need to publish the config and migration files:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="RolfHaug\FrontSms\FrontSmsServiceProvider"

If you do not have a phone column on the user model already. Publish the user related migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="RolfHaug\FrontSms\FrontSmsServiceProvider" --tag=user-migrations

Please note: If you're serving only one market, you can optionally delete the country_code migration file and rely on the config setting instead. More on this later.

Then run the migrations

php artisan migrate

If you use Artisan’s migrate:rollback or migrate:refresh commands you should edit the migration files and uncomment the down methods.

Configure

Add your configuration in your .env file.

# You'll get these fron Front in your settings page
FRONT_SERVICE_ID=
FRONT_SENDER_ID=

# Password if you're not authenticating by IP
FRONT_PASSWORD=

# ISO 3166-2 Geographic Region code (E.g. GB, NO, SE)
FRONT_DEFAULT_REGION=

# Debugging: print messages to the log instead of sending to Front
FRONT_FAKE_MESSAGES=false

If you want to receive Delivery Reports or Inbound SMS Messages you must exclude the SMS api routes from CSRF Verification.

// app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php

class VerifyCsrfToken extends Middleware
{
    protected $except = [
        'sms/*',
    ];
}

yourdomain.com/sms/report

yourdomain.com/sms/inbound

Then add the RolfHaug\FrontSms\Traits\Smsable trait to your user model.

<?php

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use RolfHaug\FrontSms\Traits\Smsable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable, Smsable;

    // ...
}

Required data

Country Code

All messages must have a known geographic region (called country code), so we can format the recipients number correctly. This can be set three ways:

By specifying an E.164 formatted phone number. E.g. +4790012345
By specifying a country_code field on the user model (database column or Eloquent accessor)
Setting default region in the config file. E.g. FRONT_DEFAULT_REGION=NO

If you're serving one market, it is recommended to stick to option 3. If you're serving multiple markets, it's recommended to go with option 2.

Phone field

Your user model (or notifiable model) must have a phone field.

The field name for the phone can be customized in the .env file. If you for instance want to use a field called telephone instead, you can add the following to your .env file.

notifiablePhoneKey=telephone

Traits

If you want to send SMS to your User model, you must use the Notifiable trait and the Smsable trait (see paths in above example).

Notifiable is a native Laravel trait. The Smsable trait adds two methods getFormattedPhone() and getCountryCode() that are necessary to successfully send SMS. These methods validate and format the recipients number before sending the SMS.

Create new messages

The package provides a convenient command to create new messages.

php artisan make:sms WelcomeMessage

This will create and scaffold a new SMS notification class under the App/Notifications/Sms directory.

<?php

namespace App\Notifications\Sms;

use RolfHaug\FrontSms\Notifications\SmsNotification;

class WelcomeMessage extends SmsNotification
{
    public $message = 'Hi %s, today was a good day!';

    public function getMessage($notifiable)
    {
        return vsprintf($this->message, [
            $notifiable->name,
        ]);
    }
}

This can be sent through a user that uses the Notifiable and Smsable traits, as mentioned above.

$user = App\User::first();
$user->notify(new WelcomeMessage);

You are free to store your classes in a different directory. It should extend the RolfHaug\FrontSms\Notifications\SmsNotification class.

You can also use the SmsNotification class directly.

$message = new SmsNotification('This is my text message.');

// Send it to a user
$user = App\User::first();
$user->notify($message);

Inbound Messages

Inbound messages can be access through the RolfHaug\FrontSms\FrontInboundMessage model.

use RolfHaug\FrontSms\FrontInboundMessage;

$messages = FrontInboundMessage::where('sent_at', now()->startOfDay())->get();

If you prefer to use another model name, you could create a new model in your project and extend the FrontInboundMessage model.

namespace App\Models;

class IncomingSms extends FrontInboundMessage {}

Then get all inbound messages like this:

$messages = App\Models\IncomingSms::all();

Tips

It is recommended to use vsprintf in the getMessage function to compile dynamic data from the notifiable (user), like the example above.

If you want to pass in additional dependencies, it can be done in the constructor.

<?php

namespace App\Notifications\Sms;

use RolfHaug\FrontSms\Notifications\SmsNotification;
use App\Order;

class OrderConfirmation extends SmsNotification
{
    private $order;

    public function __construct($message = null, Order $order)
    {
        $this->order = $order;
        parent::__construct($message);
    }

    public $message = 'Hi %s, thank you for your order! You can download your receipt here %s';

    public function getMessage($notifiable)
    {
        return vsprintf($this->message, [
            $notifiable->name,
            $this->order->receiptLink()
        ]);
    }
}

Success 🎉

You are now ready to send SMS to your users.

Route - Delivery Reports

Front will send delivery reports on outbound SMS messages to the url you defined in your Front settings page. By default the route should be set to yourdomain.com/sms/reports.

You can override it by creating your own POST route and use RolfHaug\FrontSms\Http\Controllers\DeliveryStatusController@store.

Route::post('custom/path/to/sms/report', [\RolfHaug\FrontSms\Http\Controllers\DeliveryStatusController::class, 'store'])->name('sms.report.store');

Route - Inbound SMS Messages

Front will send inbound SMS messages to the url you defined in your Front settings page. By default the route should be set to yourdomain.com/sms/inbound.

You can override it by creating your own POST route and use RolfHaug\FrontSms\Http\Controllers\InboundMessageController@store.

Route::post('custom/path/to/sms/report', [\RolfHaug\FrontSms\Http\Controllers\InboundMessageController::class, 'store'])->name('sms.inbound.store');

Testing

The package use the Laravel Notification Interface, so you can test the notifications with Notification Fake.

There are many ways to test on-demand notifications, one way to do it like this:

use RolfHaug\FrontSms\Channels\SmsChannel;
use App\Notifications\Sms\MySmsNotification

// Send anonymous / on-demand notification
Notification::route(SmsChannel::class, '+4799887766')->notify(new MySmsNotification($dependencies));

Tests could look something like this:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Notification
use Illuminate\Notifications\AnonymousNotifiable
use RolfHaug\FrontSms\Channels\SmsChannel;
use App\Notifications\Sms\MySmsNotification

Notification::fake();
// Trigger SMS

// Use assertSentOnDemand "helper"
Notification::assertSentOnDemand(MySmsNotification::class, function($notification, $channels, $notifiable){
    // Do any inspections necessary
    return $notifiable->routes[SmsChannel::class] === '+4799887766';
});

// Or use "raw" assertSentTo
Notification::assertSentTo(new AnonymousNotifiable(), MySmsNotification::class, function ($notification, $channels, $notifiable){
    // Do any inspections necessary
    return $notifiable->routes[SmsChannel::class] === '+4799887766';
});

Debugging

Set FRONT_FAKE_MESSAGES=true in your .env file to get messages outputted in the Laravel Log. Messages will not be sent to Front with this feature enabled.

Incoming SMS to local environment

If you want to test your system by receiving actual DeliveryReports or Inbound SMS Messages you can use ngrok.

Create a free account claim your static domain
Claim your static domain from ngrok
Enter your static domain in the Front settings page your-ngrok-domain.com/sms/report and your-ngrok-domain.com/sms/inbound
Activate ngrok in your local environment ngrok http --domain=your-ngrok-domaincom 80
Inbound SMS and Delivery reports will now arrive in your local environment

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