Laravel ua chatbot
- 1. Laravel UA Chatbot How was that..
- 2. Agenda ➔ Chatbots with Laravel, is there a life? ➔ Botman overview ➔ How the code looks ➔ Development pitfalls ➔ Deployment tricks ➔ Conclusion ➔ Links
- 3. Chatbots with Laravel, is there a life? ➔ Chatbot is another interface for your application ➔ There are Bot Frameworks and Bot Platforms.. ➔ Most popular among them: ◆ Bot Platforms: Chatfuel, Motion.ai, Botsify, FlowXO, etc. ◆ Bot Frameworks: Microsoft Bot Framework, Wit.ai, Api.ai, Aspect NLU, etc. ◆ And PHP Frameworks: BotMan, Fondbot, etc. ➔ Most popular PHP framework is BotMan
- 4. Botman overview ➔ Utilizes Laravel framework ➔ Has drivers for: Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram, Skype, Kik, Twilio, Alexa, Cisco Spark, Hangouts Chat, HipChat, Nexmo, WeChat, Web. ➔ Extensive documentation and video course. ➔ Concepts: deals with messages and attachments, handles visual components, conversations, embedded events, testing and middleware support, includes initializing commands, has integrated NLP (Natural Language Processing) services
- 5. How the code looks Simple Replying // Process incoming message $botman->listen(); $botman->hears('foo', function ($bot) { $bot->reply('Hello World'); }); $botman->hears('foo', 'SomeNamespaceMyBotCommands@handleFoo'); class MyBotCommands { public function handleFoo($bot) { $bot->reply('Hello World'); } }
- 6. How the code looks Sending attachments // Process incoming message $botman->listen(); $botman->hears('foo', function ($bot) { $bot->reply('Hello World'); }); $botman->hears('foo', 'SomeNamespaceMyBotCommands@handleFoo'); class MyBotCommands { public function handleFoo($bot) { $attachment = new Image('http://image-url-here.jpg'); // and Video,Audio,File,Location $message = OutgoingMessage::create('This is my text')->withAttachment($attachment); $bot->reply($message); } }
- 7. How the code looks Conversations $botman->hears('Hello', function($bot) { $bot->startConversation(new OnboardingConversation); }); class OnboardingConversation extends Conversation { protected $firstname; public function run() { $this->ask('Hello! What is your firstname?', function(Answer $answer) { $this->firstname = $answer->getText(); $this->say('Nice to meet you '.$this->firstname); }); } }
- 8. How the code looks Listening for attachments $bot->receivesImages(function($bot, $images) { foreach ($images as $image) { $url = $image->getUrl(); // The direct url $title = $image->getTitle(); // The title, if available $payload = $image->getPayload(); // The original payload } }); $bot->receivesVideos(.. $bot->receivesAudio(.. $bot->receivesFiles(.. $bot->receivesLocation(..
- 9. Development pitfalls ➔ Proactive messages: E.g. Facebook 24+1 policy ➔ Localization: Check locale with platform API vs Self made localization ➔ Visual components limitations: Each platform has its own set of components, which often limited in styling
- 10. Development pitfalls ➔ Payments (are complicated and not standardized): Built-in: ◆ Facebook: Stripe, Paypal, Tokenized (US only) ◆ Telegram: Stripe, Paymentwall, Yandex.Money, Payme, Apple and Android Pay ◆ Skype: manual integration of PayPal, Stripe External: ◆ External links, payment bots, Masterpass, Slack’s Paypal bot, Privat payment bot (VIber and Telegram)
- 11. Deployment tricks ➔ Messengers are different and they require individual approach, RTFM ◆ Facebook: Prepare Privacy Policy, submit for review with ◆ Telegram and Slack: Quick and transparent. Botfather (Telegram) and Slack API Center ◆ Viber: Don’t wait until they apply you, because it may never happen :)
- 12. Conclusion ➔ We can use PHP and Laravel nevertheless is not that popular among biggest frameworks; ➔ Botman is a decent tool for chatbot development and IMHO preferable with PHP ecosystem; ➔ Look into native API, always! ➔ There are set of nuances specific for each platform, could be solvable or not!
- 13. Links LaravelUA bot at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ualaravelgroup/ and in Messenger: https://www.messenger.com/t/ualaravelgroup Telegram: @laravelua_bot (https://telegram.me/laravelua_bot)