Receiving additional content

• Introduction
• Images
• Videos
• Audio
• Locations

Introduction

BotMan does not only allow you to listen for incoming textual messages, but also gives you the ability to listen for incoming images, videos, audio messages and locations.

Listen for images

Making your bot listen to incoming images is easy. Just use the receivesImages method on the BotMan instance. All received images will be passed to the callback as a second argument.

The images returned will be an array containing an URL to access the uploaded image file.

$bot->receivesImages(function($bot, $images) {
    //
});

Listen for videos

Just like images, you can use the receivesVideos method on the BotMan instance to listen for incoming video file uploads. All received videos will be passed to the callback as a second argument.

The videos returned will be an array containing an URL to access the uploaded video file.

$bot->receivesVideos(function($bot, $videos) {
    //
});

Listen for audio

Just like images, you can use the receivesAudio method on the BotMan instance to listen for incoming audio file uploads. All received audio files will be passed to the callback as a second argument.

The audio files returned will be an array containing an URL to access the uploaded files.

$bot->receivesAudio(function($bot, $audio) {
    //
});

Listen for locations

Some messaging services also allow your bot users to send their GPS location to your bot. You can listen for these location calls using the receivesLocation method on the BotMan instance.

The method will pass a Location object to the callback method.

use Mpociot\BotMan\Attachments\Location;

$bot->receivesLocation(function($bot, Location $location) {
    $lat = $location->getLatitude();
    $lng = $location->getLongitude();
});