Add Laravel example to readme.md about botman HOT 18 CLOSED

I'll close this issue for now. With the new version of this library, I will create a demo repository showing off all supported messaging platforms.

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I still want to provide a separate repository with a Laravel example application to get you started. But I haven't found the time yet.

If you find some things in the documentation that could be improved, feel free to send pull requests.

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If you need any code (like what I have now from the #14 issue), let me know.

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Quick question, I see that the repo does support buttons, does it accept button requests too, or just send them?

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What do you mean by "Button requests"?
It allows sending (and responding) to Slack message buttons.

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That's what I meant, so in the value do you put the same thing that's in the ->hears() section?

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So from my code from yesterday, something like this, would it work?

    public function handleBotRequest(Request $request)
    {
        $payload = $request->json();
        if ($payload->get('type') === 'url_verification') {
            return $payload->get('challenge');
        }

        $team = Company::find(1);

        $slackBot = app('slackbot');

        $slackBot->initialize($team->slack_info->bot->bot_access_token);
        $slackBot->hears('ping', function (SlackBot $bot) {
            $bot->reply(Question::create('PONG')->addButton(Button::create('Ping')->value('ping'))->callbackId('PINGPONG'));
        });
        $slackBot->listen();
    }

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Yes exactly, that should work.

Here is an example from one of my bots:

$question = Question::create('Do you need a database?')
            ->fallback('Unable to create a new database')
            ->callbackId('create_database')
            ->addButtons([
                Button::create('Yes')->value('yes'),
                Button::create('No')->value('no'),
            ]);

$bot->reply($question, function (Answer $answer) {
            if ($answer->isInteractiveMessageReply()) {
                $decision = $answer->getValue();
                if ($decision === 'yes') {}
            }
});

Please note that the bot reply method no longer exists. It got renamed to respond

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Ah, okay! Also, I scrapped what I had created and started a repo to make it easy, I can transfer if you want and I also have a dev site setup on a forge server so I could play with it more.

https://github.com/darkgoldblade01/slackbot-laravel

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How are you using $bot->reply($question, function()) when the second argument is supposed to be an array?

I am getting an error:

ErrorException: array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array in /home/forge/***/vendor/mpociot/slackbot/src/Mpociot/SlackBot/SlackBot.php:248

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Ah - this was taken from a Conversation class and I just changed the syntax from $this->ask (which only accepts two arguments) to $bot->reply

So this should be inside of a conversation too, since you need to get the users input.

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Okay, I am hoping to compile the examples we are coming up with into the repo I created for the laravel example.

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Btw, thanks @darkgoldblade01 for that repo, it'll come handy, I did try to follow @mpociot's blog post on it, but somehow I failed miserably ;-) I hope yours will get me through it!

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Sorry for that - I wrote the blog post while writing the library, which has now a more stable API.
I'll update the blogpost soon :)

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No worries about that, that'll just teach me to blindly follow step by step :P

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Well, thank you guys, I finally re-read this issue correctly (And #14) and got my bot working just fine on my part! Now the fun part begins...

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If you encounter any issues that could be shared let us know! :-)

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Honestly, at this moment, the only issue I encountered was probably due to the fact that I was trying to follow the blog post, the readme and two issues at the same time ;-)

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