Mr Messaging Notification Channel for Laravel

Version Support

Laravel 10+

Installation

Send SMS notifications in Laravel powered by Mr Messaging.

Step 1: Install the package via composer:

composer require rouxtaccess/laravel-mrmessaging

The package will automatically register it's service provider and merge it's config

Step 2: Add your Mr Messaging credentials to your .env file:

Required env config: (see advanced Configuration below for more)

    MR_MESSAGING_USERNAME=
    MR_MESSAGING_PASSWORD=
    MR_MESSAGING_DELIVERY_ENABLED=true

Step 3: Add your routing information to the notifiable model

We support a few ways to route the SMS to the correct number.

The default is to use the routeNotificationForSms method on the notifiable model.

This method should return the phone number to send the SMS to.

But if you'd like to specifically configure the phone number for MrMessaging differently, you can also use a method routeNotificationForMrMessaging on the notifiable model to override the default routeNotificationForSms.

Example:

    public function routeNotificationForSms($notification)
    {
        return $this->customer_msisdn;
    }

Note: Mr Messaging takes in a E.164 formatted number without the leading plus. On our side we will strip any + or spaces from the phone number before sending it to MrMessaging

Step 4: Enable the channel for this notification

Add 'mrmessaging' to your notification's via method.

    public function via(object $notifiable): array
    {
        return ['mail', 'mrmessaging'];
    }

Step 5: Format your message

Add the toMrMessaging method to your notification.

   use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MrMessagingMessage;
   
   public function toMrMessaging(object $notifiable): MrMessagingMessage
    {
        return (new MrMessagingMessage)
            ->content('Your SMS message content');
    }

Step 6: Send your notification

That's it! Send your notifications and they'll fire over to Mr Messaging.

    $user->notify(new YourNotification());

Additional Information

Configuration

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Illuminate\Notifications\MrMessagingServiceProvider"

or

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-mrmessaging-config

You will notice that there are a few additional configuration options in the config file around storing eventIDs

Event Tracking

Mr Messaging supports event tracking through a two different mechanisms.

Option 1: Laravel Notification Events

By default, you can always hook into Laravel's events to listen for the NotificationSentEvent event

We return an array of all the Event ID's that we get from MrMessaging

It is an array, not a string because of multi-part messages (MrMessaging gives us an eventID for each part)

Option 2: Cache

If enable via the config, we will store the eventIDs from all sms messages sent in the cache for a configurable amount of time (defaulting to 24 hours)

This is very useful if you just want a very simple solution to track the eventID until you get a delivery report back from Mr Messaging

License

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