The BotMan 2.0 release is a new major version release. While the first version of BotMan was provided under the personal vendor namespace mpociot, the project is now moved into a separate GitHub organization. This results in a change of all BotMan classes, since they now live in a different namespace than in version 1.5.
Change your mpociot/botman dependency to botman/botman with version 2.0.* in your composer.json file.
In favor of the new driver events, we have removed the following drivers:
- FacebookOptinDriver
- FacebookReferralDriver
To react to Optin or Referral events, use the new driver event syntax:
// FacebookReferralDriver
$botman->on('messaging_referrals', function($payload, $bot) {
});
// FacebookOptinDriver
$botman->on('messaging_optins', function($payload, $bot) {
});
BotMan 2.0 does no longer have the messaging service specific drivers included in the core repository. This allows easier maintenance and bugfixing of the BotMan core, while also speeding up the development of individual messaging service drivers.
You can find a complete list of the available drivers in the BotMan GitHub organization.
Install all needed drivers via composer as a separate package. Please note that the driver configuration structure also changed. Take a look at the individual driver section in the documentation to verify the new configuration array structure for your driver.
Make sure to load all manually installed drivers via the DriverManager::loadDriver method in order to make it accessible to BotMan.
channel GroupThe channel command group has been renamed to recipient.
The Message class was renamed to BotMan\BotMan\Messages\Outgoing\OutgoingMessage. Instead of providing image, video, etc. methods for attachments, those attachments are now separated in different classes and can be sent using the withAttachment method.
Take a look at the Sending Messages documentation for code examples.
get MethodThe Storage classes now have a find method, that replaces the get method. This allows easier access of default entry keys.
Replace all your get occurences with find.
The middleware system of BotMan 2.0 is completely rewritten and provides a lot more flexibility than the 1.x version did.
If you use API.ai in combination with your BotMan commands, initialize the middleware and pass it to the new global received middlewares on BotMan.
You can then use the middleware inside your hears methods as usual.
$middleware = ApiAi::create('your-api-ai-token')->listenForAction();
// Apply global "received" middleware
$botman->middleware->received($middleware);