Make a Laravel app respond to a slash command from Slack

This package makes it easy to make your Laravel app respond to Slack's Slash commands.

Once you've setup your Slash command over at Slack and installed this package into a Laravel app you can create handlers that can handle a slash command. Here's an example of such a handler that will send a response back to slack.

namespace App\SlashCommandHandlers;

use App\SlashCommand\BaseHandler;
use Spatie\SlashCommand\Request;
use Spatie\SlashCommand\Response;

class CatchAll extends BaseHandler
{
    /**
     * If this function returns true, the handle method will get called.
     *
     * @param \Spatie\SlashCommand\Request $request
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function canHandle(Request $request): bool
    {
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Handle the given request. Remember that Slack expects a response
     * within three seconds after the slash command was issued. If
     * there is more time needed, dispatch a job.
     * 
     * @param \Spatie\SlashCommand\Request $request
     * 
     * @return \Spatie\SlashCommand\Response
     */
    public function handle(Request $request): Response
    {
        return $this->respondToSlack("You have typed this text: `{$request->text}`");
    }
}

Spatie is a webdesign agency based in Antwerp, Belgium. You'll find an overview of all our open source projects on our website.

Example of Multiple Attachments

In cases where the response may need to send an unknown amount of attachments, create an array of the attachments and pass the array to the withAttachments() method.

$processedItems = getItems();

foreach($processedItems as $item)
{
		$myattachments[] = Attachment::create()
				->setFallback('An attachment')
				->setColor('#ff00f3')
				->setText($item['info']);
}

return $this
		->respondToSlack('Here are the items')
		->withAttachments($myattachments)
		->send();

Postcardware

You're free to use this package (it's MIT-licensed), but if it makes it to your production environment you are required to send us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using.

Our address is: Spatie, Samberstraat 69D, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium.

The best postcards will get published on the open source page on our website.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-slack-slash-command

This service provider must be installed.

// config/app.php
'providers' => [
    ...
    Spatie\SlashCommand\SlashCommandServiceProvider::class,
];

You can publish the config-file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\SlashCommand\SlashCommandServiceProvider"

This is the contents of the published file:

return [

    /*
     * At the integration settings over at Slack you can configure the url to which the 
     * slack commands are posted. Specify the path component of that url here. 
     * 
     * For `http://example.com/slack` you would put `slack` here.
     */
    'url' => 'slack',

    /*
     * The token generated by Slack with which to verify if a incoming slash command request is valid.
     */
    'token' => env('SLACK_SLASH_COMMAND_VERIFICATION_TOKEN'),

    /*
     * The handlers that will process the slash command. We'll call handlers from top to bottom
     * until the first one whose `canHandle` method returns true.
     */
    'handlers' => [
        //add your own handlers here


        //this handler will display instructions on how to use the various commands.
        Spatie\SlashCommand\Handlers\Help::class,

        //this handler will respond with a `Could not handle command` message.
        Spatie\SlashCommand\Handlers\CatchAll::class,
    ],
];

Documentation

You'll find the documentation on https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-slack-slash-command.

Find yourself stuck using the package? Found a bug? Do you have general questions or suggestions for improving the media library? Feel free to create an issue on GitHub, we'll try to address it as soon as possible.

If you've found a bug regarding security please mail freek@spatie.be instead of using the issue tracker.

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Testing

$ composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• Freek Van der Herten
• All Contributors

The message and attachment functionalities were heavily inspired on Regan McEntyre's Slack package.

About Spatie

Spatie is a webdesign agency based in Antwerp, Belgium. You'll find an overview of all our open source projects on our website.

License

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