How do I add botman 2.0 in an existing laravel 5.6 project?

[TeamTracer]

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[christophrumpel]

Hey @TeamTracer ,

there is no official guide to do so. I would ask in the BotMan Slack channel, I am sure there are some people who already did that. If you need help you should also provide exact problems and errors, please!

Generally speaking, you need to:

• require packages for BotMan and the driver you need
• you need to add a route for GET / POST requests which calls a controller which is creating a botman object, BotMan listeners and calling the listen method. (The botman.php route file from BotMan Studio is only in the Studio version loaded automatically)
• I guess the BotMan service provider should be automatically loaded when you require the BotMan project.

But I haven't done it myself yet.

[TeamTracer]

@christophrumpel, I tried to replicate botman studio, everything is working except the botman.php route. Codes written there doesn't seem to work. I also edited the app/providers/routeserviceprovider.php but it still doesn't work.

[prdpspkt]

Follow these steps:

1. composer require botman/botman
2. composer require botman/driver-facebook or driver you need
3. Copy config files from botman studio config folder to your project folder. And set them properly.
4. Then create a controller YourController with two methods. use following code:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

//load BotMan
use BotMan\BotMan\BotMan;
use BotMan\BotMan\BotManFactory;
use BotMan\BotMan\Drivers\DriverManager;
class MessengerController extends Controller
{
//load facebook messenger driver, or driver you need
DriverManager::loadDriver(\BotMan\Drivers\Facebook\FacebookDriver::class);
        $cacheDriver = new \Doctrine\Common\Cache\PhpFileCache('cache');
        $botman = BotManFactory::create(config('botman', new DoctrineCache($cacheDriver)));
        $botman->hears('hi', function (BotMan $bot) {
            $bot->reply('Hello Yourself');
        });
}
?>

5. In your routes/web.php file use: Route::match(['get', 'post'],'/webhook', 'MessengerController@webhook');

[christophrumpel]

@TeamTracer any updates here?

[TeamTracer]

@christophrumpel, I haven't found any solutions. Instead I installed laravel 5.6, added botman and then replicated the remaining files of a fresh copy of botman studio. I wrote all the codes in the controller not in botman.php route.

[zenia9012]

show your code in controller

[jnk2006]

Is there no way to add conversations while using botman in an existing laravel project?

[prdpspkt]

You can create folder named conversations in app directory and use them like in botman studio.

[jnk2006]

it isn't working that way. already tried!

[startupengine]

I am also somewhat frustrated in my attempt to add this to a Laravel 5.7 project. Would be great to see an official guide added to the docs.

[jnk2006]

You’ve got to add the botman.php route in RouteServiceProvider.php

[MeiRct]

Any update on that? Official instructions would be great!

[jnk2006]

https://course.buildachatbot.io/?utm_source=botman-docs&utm_medium=navigation&utm_campaign=video_course

I subscribed to the $25.00 pack and saw the videos. They had all the information for adding botman to existing project and even for starting-from-scratch project. I honestly forgot how I did it, but the I do remember that the video has the required information.

[PatrickSTM]

I know, the topic is now 3 years old. But there seems to be a solution with this video from the creators of "Botman".

https://beyondco.de/course/build-a-chatbot/getting-started/add-botman-to-your-laravel-app

[ianmartorell]

I found the most straightforward way was to copy the botman-related files from the BotMan Studio Laravel project.