lawrence615 / atgate

dev-master 2017-01-20 12:54 UTC

MIT

• Lawrence Macharia

Published on Packagist.org on 2025-09-14 06:48 UTC

README

A simple Laravel package for making it easier to use the official Africa's Talking PHP gateway in your Laravel application.

Requirements

• PHP >=5.6.0
• Laravel 5.x

Quick Installation

Install the Package Via Composer:

$ composer require "lawrence615/atgate:dev-master"

Add the Service Provider to your config/app.php file:

 'providers' => [
    ...
    Mobidev\ATGate\ATGateServiceProvider::class,
    ...
 ]

Add the Facade to your config/app.php file:

    'aliases' => [
        ...
        'AfricaTGate' => Mobidev\ATGate\Facades\AfricaTGate::class,
        ...
    ]

Publish configuration and assets

$ php artisan vendor:publish

Configuration

The last step of installation, $ php artisan vendor:publish, creates a config file (atgate.php) in the config directory.

Update AT credentials inside atgate.php

Update both username and api_key inside config/atgate.php.

You can generate the API Key here. You will need to create an account first, username will be the one you create an account with.

Usage in Applications

Import/use the facade in your controller

   use AfricaTGate;

• Default

   $response = AfricaTGate::sendSMS("0720XXXXXX", "Testing. Test SMS.");

• With Sender Id

   $response = AfricaTGate::from('Sender_Id')->sendSMS("0720XXXXXX", "Testing. Test SMS.");