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nopolabs/yabot-template
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Template for yabot projects.

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yabot-template
==============

[](#yabot-template)

Project template for building a slack bot using nopolabs/yabot

Getting Started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

You will need php 7.\* and [composer](https://getcomposer.org/download/).

- Use composer to create a new project based on yabot-template.
- Copy config.example.php to config.php
- Follow [Slack's instructions](https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/215770388) to get a slack token.
- Replace "SLACK-TOKEN-GOES-HERE" in config.php with your slack token.
- **Do not** check your slack token into a public source control repository.
    (Slack will revoke tokens it finds shared publically).
- Run Yabot: 'php yabot.php'

```
composer create-project --stability dev nopolabs/yabot-template my-bot
# allow composer to remove existing .git history
cd my-bot
# create your own git repository for your bot
cp config.example.php config.php
cp .env.example .env
vi .env
# replace SLACK-TOKEN-GOES-HERE with your slack token
php yabot.php
# ... profit
```

NOTE: yabot uses nopolabs repositories for slack-client and phpws because it depends on updates to coderstephen/slack-client and devristo/phpws that are not yet available from those packages.

Adding plugins
--------------

[](#adding-plugins)

Visit [yabot-plugins](https://github.com/nopolabs/yabot-plugins) to find a number of example plugins of varying complexity and utility. Here is how to add one of those plugins (GiphyPlugin) to this project.

- Use composer to require nopolabs/yabot-plugins
- Import plugin.giphy.yml in config/plugins.yml
- Start yabot

```
composer require nopolabs/yabot-plugins
vi config/plugins.yml
# add: "- { resource: '../vendor/nopolabs/yabot-plugins/config/plugin.giphy.yml' }" to the imports section.
php yabot.php
```

Writing your own plugins
------------------------

[](#writing-your-own-plugins)

yabot-template contains one plugin (HelloPlugin) as a placeholder to show where plugin source code, tests, and configuration go. Specifically:

- source code goes in the src/ directory
- tests go in the tests/ directory
- configuration goes in config/plugins.yml and config.php
- package namespaces for src/ and tests/ auto-loading are set in composer.json

Logging
-------

[](#logging)

Yabot uses [monolog](https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog) to write logs. By default logging is configured in config.php to go to logs/bot.log.

Setting `'log.file' => 'php://stdout'` can be useful during development to direct logging information to the terminal where you have started yabot.

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