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andre/bionic
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Bionic is a simple chat bot development library in PHP

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Bionic
------

[](#bionic)

Bionic is a simple chat bot development library in PHP.

It is driven by a very simple but powerful event dispatching library [Événement](https://github.com/igorw/evenement) and [Guzzle](https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle) a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests

Platform support
----------------

[](#platform-support)

- Facebook Messenger
- WhatsApp
- Instagram
- Telegram
- Viber

Facebook Messenger and Instagram
--------------------------------

[](#facebook-messenger-and-instagram)

What is covered
---------------

[](#what-is-covered)

- Create a FB Page
- Create a FB app
- Create a webhook
- Connect the Facebook app to the Facebook page
- Setup Bionic

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Create a FB page

[](#create-a-fb-page)

First login to Facebook and [create a Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/pages/create). Choose the settings that fits best your bot, but for testing it is not important.

### Create a FB Messenger app

[](#create-a-fb-messenger-app)

Go to the [developer's app page](https://developers.facebook.com/apps/). Click "Add a New App" and fill the basic app fields.

On the "Product Setup" page choose Messenger and click "Get Started".

Now you need to create a token to give your app access to your Facebook page. Select the created page, grant permissions and copy the generated token. You need that one later.

### Create a webhook for the Facebook app for either Messenger or Instagram

[](#create-a-webhook-for-the-facebook-app-for-either-messenger-or-instagram)

Your application needs to have a webhook. This means a public URL that Facebook can communicate with. Every time a user sends a message inside the FB chat, FB will send it to this URL which is the entry point to your application.

### Connect the Facebook app to your application

[](#connect-the-facebook-app-to-your-application)

Now that you got the URL you need to setup the webhook. Go back to you Facebook app settings and click `Setup Webhooks`inside the Webhooks part.

Fill in the public URL, check the subscription fields you want to with and click `Verify and Save`.

***Note:*** You need to write your own webhook verification logic in your application.

### Setup Bionic

[](#setup-bionic)

The recommended way to install Bionic is [through composer](http://getcomposer.org).

Just create a composer.json file for your project and require it:

```
composer require andre/bionic

```

Now you can add the autoloader, and you will have access to the library:

```