Snappy App Template
Base application template for building Snappy applications.
What Are They
Snappy applications are an easy way to integrate Snappy with all of your other favorite applications. For example, want a message to be sent to your Hipchat room when a new wall post is made? How about creating a new Highrise contact when you get an e-mail? Applications make either a breeze.
You can even build your applications and have them included in Snappy. This repository contains a starting point for doing just that. Just adding a few API calls to a single file is all it takes to build a fully functional Snappy application! We'll walk you through the process below.
Getting Started
First, clone this repository onto your system using Git, then remove the .git folder from the cloned directory. Run the composer install command from your terminal to install the application's dependencies. This will give you a good starting point for building your application. Next, you should set values such as name, author, etc. in both the composer.json file and in the Snappy\Apps\ServiceName\App.php file.
Next, you may rename the ServiceName folder to match the name of the application's purpose or integrated third party service. For example, the Github application has a folder path of Snappy\Apps\Github\App.php. Also, you should add a 256x256 logo for the app to the root folder. The file name should also be set in the App.php icon property.
How Apps Work
Apps may listen for one or more of the following hooks: message.incoming, message.outgoing, contact.created, tags.changed, ticket.replied, and ticket.waiting. To indicate which events your application handles, you may implement the corresponding interfaces. The interfaces are:
Snappy\Apps\IncomingMessageHandlerSnappy\Apps\OutgoingMessageHandlerSnappy\Apps\ContactCreatedHandlerSnappy\Apps\ContactLookupHandlerSnappy\Apps\TagsChangedHandlerSnappy\Apps\TicketRepliedHandlerSnappy\Apps\TicketWaitingHandler
The Guzzle PHP library will be available to your application, so feel free to use this HTTP library for contacting remote services. You may wish to add it to your own application's Composer file for use during testing. If you add Guzzle to your composer file, use the 3.7.* version.
Contact Lookup
The ContactLookupHandler is unique in that it does not correspond directly to a Snappy webhook. Instead, it may be used to add a custom display of contact information to the contact detail tool-tip.
When clicking on a contact in the address bar of a Snappy message screen, a tool-tip with more information about that contact will appear. On the right side of this tool-tip will be the icons of your Contact Lookup enabled applications. Clicking one of these icons will display custom HTML returned by that application.
For an example of a Snappy application that implements contact lookup, check out the Highrise application.
Rendering Views
For the applications that implement the ContactLookupHandler interface, you may render HTML "views" by using the $this->render method, passing the path to the view file, and an array of data you want to make available to the view:
$this->render(__DIR__.'/view.html', array('name' => $name, 'email' => $email));
Submitting Applications For Review
So, you have completed your first application... great!
Next, submit your application to the Packagist PHP package repository. This will allow us to pull your application into our Snappy development environment.
Finally, just send us an e-mail at hello+github@help.besnappy.com with a link to the repository. We'll check it out and get it included in Snappy ASAP.