Glip - Botman

Glip Adaptor for Botman.

This is a simple Botman Adaptor for Glip which is ready to use and fairly simple to install. Before we install, lets look at the requirements below :

Requirement

• PHP 5.5+
• CURL extension
• MCrypt extension

Note: for PHP v 5.6 you would need to comment the below line in the php.ini file.
"always_populate_raw_post_data = -1"

Installation & Setup

Via Github Repo

$ git clone https://github.com/anilkumarbp/glip-botman.git
$ cd glip-botman
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ composer install

Via Composer

Require this package with composer using the following command:

$ composer require anilkumarbp/glip-botman

Require Composer's autoloader in your PHP script ( index.php ) assuming it is in the same directory where you installed Composer :

require('vendor/autoload.php');

Configure your Bot

Provide Bot User details in .env file:

$ vi .env

Edit the .env file and copy the below and edit app details and user details.

    GLIP_SERVER=https://platform.devtest.ringcentral.com        // Server Url ( Production: https://platform.ringcentral.com || Sandbox: https://platform.devtest.ringcentral.com )
    GLIP_APPKEY=appKey                                              
    GLIP_APPSECRET=appSecret                                     
    GLIP_USERNAME=Username                                  
    GLIP_PASSWORD=Password                                
    GLIP_EXTENSION=Extension                                

Define an Application in RingCentral

In order to communicate with the RingCentral API, you will need to have RingCentral API Keys for the appropriate environment, either Sandbox or Production.

1. Login to the Developer Portal https://developer.ringcentral.com/login.html#/ if you haven't already. 2. Click on 'Create App' to define a new application
   • Application Name: Your choice, but something easy to identify and associate with purpose is good
   • Description: Your suitable description for the application.
   • Application Type: Private
   • Platform Type: Server-only (No UI)
   • Permissions Needed:
     • Glip
     • Webhook Subscriptions

Note : This bot uses Webhook Based Subscriptions to Listen to conversations posted on Glip

For more information on Webhooks, refer to our QuickStart Guide on Webhooks

Usage

Note: The demo assumes that you are not using a Live server instead the PHP's Built-In Web server and the tunneling service from ngrok.

Start the PHP built-in Web Server locally

$ cd glip-botman

$ php -S localhost:8080

Start ngrok ( Optional )

For demo purposes we are using ngrok.

Open another terminal and:

$ ngrok http 8080

Setup Webhook URL for the Bot

Just point the webhook subscription URL to: ( you must start ngrok if using it ) lets say the above step gives you an endpoint for the server as below:

https://f0aad057.ngrok.io/index.php

Add this to the .env parameter GLIP_WEBHOOK_URL created above.

Start the Bot

In the terminal, just run this command:

$ cd glip-botman

$ php index.php

If its successful, you will get a message as below :

Wohooo, your Bot is Registered. Please follow the instructions on on-boarding the bot into Glip

On-Boarding Bot into Glip

1. Assign a Name and Unique Email Address to the Bot
   https://service.devtest.ringcentral.com

Note: The above user refers to the same user whose credentials was used in the .env file to configure the bot.

2. Invite the bot into a group using the email ID
   https://glip.devtest.ringcentral.com/

Note: Create a group on Glip and invite the Bot using Add Member button on the top extreme right.

3. Start chatting with the Bot

Extending the Botman-Glip Adapter

You can set the Bot to listen to any specific commands/instructions . You can include the commands in the php file whihc is used to setup the Webhook. In our case, it is webhook.php

// Give the bot something to listen for.
$botman->hears('hello', function (BotMan $bot) {
    $bot->reply('Hello yourself.');
});


$botman->hears('how are you doing', function (BotMan $bot) {
    $bot->reply('I am fine how are you doing today ?');
});

For more details, please take a look at Botman's official guide on Hearing Messages

Dependencies

Currently used RingCentral-PHP SDK version for this demo:
"ringcentral/ringcentral-php": "^2.0.0"
"mpociot/botman":"latest"

• Make sure to change the SDK version in the composer.json before you chose to use a different SDK Version.

Links

Project Repo

• https://github.com/anilkumarbp/glip-botman

RingCentral SDK for PHP

• https://github.com/ringcentral/ringcentral-php

RingCentral API Docs

• https://developer.ringcentral.com/api-and-docs.html

RingCentral API Explorer

• https://developer.ringcentral.com/api-explorer/latest/index.html

Contributions

Any reports of problems, comments or suggestions are most welcome.

Please report these on glip-botman's Issue Tracker in Github.

License

RingCentral SDK is available under an MIT-style license. See LICENSE.txt for details.

RingCentral SDK © 2017 by RingCentral

FAQ

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