WhatsApp PHP Bot. Basic functionality that the WhatsApp bot needs: send and receive messages, send image/file/docs/video, as well as creating a group and sending a message to the WhatsApp groupю
We'll show you how to write a simple PHP bot using our Cloud API. The demo bot will react and respond to commands sent to it in the form of regular WhatsApp messages to your number. You can get a token for the bot by registering at https://panel.whapi.cloud/register
This example of the WhatsApp bot implementation touches in detail on the most frequently used functionality: send message, send file, create group, send message to WhatsApp Group. This will allow you to adapt WhatsApp API and source code to your tasks and needs, or take it as a basis for creating any other integration. In the source code of the bot you will find the following functionality:
- Respond to an unfamiliar command, this could be an instruction or your welcome message;
- Send regular message;
- Send image;
- Send file;
- Send video;
- Send contact (vCard);
- Send product;
- Create new group, send an invitation and send message to the group;
- Receive and reading incoming messages;
For the bot to work, it is NOT REQUIRED that the phone is turned on or online. Connect the number and test the integration comfortably!
And if you need any help, just write to us in the support chat on any page of the site: https://whapi.cloud/features
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. To install it: Visit the official Composer website https://getcomposer.org. Download and run Composer-Setup.exe for Windows or follow the installation instructions for MacOS or Linux.
After installing Composer, install the necessary dependencies for your bot: Open the command line or terminal. Navigate to your project directory where the composer.json file is located. Run the command:
composer installThis reads the composer.json file, downloads the required libraries, and creates an autoload.php file that auto-loads all libraries in your project.
Configure your project settings: Open the config.php file in your IDE. Set up configurations such as your API token and webhook URL
Now that dependencies are installed and the project is configured, you can launch the bot on your server or local machine. Ensure your server supports PHP and is accessible from the internet if you plan to use webhooks. Learn more about how to configure the webhook to work locally here: https://support.whapi.cloud/help-desk/receiving/webhooks/how-to-check-the-webhook#how-to-test-webhook-locally
Registration: https://panel.whapi.cloud/register The first step is to register on the Whapi.Cloud website and create an account. It's free and doesn't require you to enter a credit card. After registration you will immediately have access to a test channel with a small limitation. Wait for it to start (it usually takes about a minute). You will need to connect your phone for Whatsapp automation. It is from the connected phone that messages will be sent. The big advantage of the service is that it takes only a couple of minutes to launch and start working.
To connect your phone, use the QR code available when you click on your trial channel in your personal account. Then open WhatsApp on your mobile device, go to Settings -> Connected devices -> Connect device -> Scan QR code.
In the second and third steps, the service will ask you to customize the channel: write its name for your convenience, set webhooks, change settings. All these steps can be skipped, and we will come back to webhooks a little later. After launching, you will find in the center block under the information about limits, your API KEY, that is Token. This token will be used to authenticate your API requests. Generally, it's added to the request headers as a Bearer Token or simply as a request parameter, depending on the API method you're using.
Paste the token into /public/config.php in the "token" line