Chatly

A sarcastically-named, modular chatbot written in PHP.

Features

• Eloquent + SQLite for persistent data
• Channel-specific commands
• Modular (extended via Composer modules)

Setup

Chatly pipes in messages via Slack's AWS Simple Queue Service integration. This is beneficial in that Chatly will still process old messages if it goes down. Chatly replies to messages via an Incoming Webhook. You need to create both of these integrations and the AWS SQS queue to continue. Chatly will not override the Incoming Webhook's style, so customize Chatly's appearance (username, avatar, bio, etc) there.

Copy the .env.example file to .env and fill in the variables. They should be self explanatory. The file is in key=value format.

To start processing messages, run php chat.php listen.

External Responders

Responders (commands that can be executed in Slack) can be installed via a simple composer require user/package. Then just add the class that extends App\Responder\Responder to the $responders array in src/App/Responder/Kernel.php. Composer will take care of the autoloading. If an external responder has migrations, you will need to add their classes to migrations/Kernel.php.