Laravel WhatsApp (renderbit/laravel-whatsapp)

A framework-agnostic, Laravel-ready PHP package for sending template-based WhatsApp messages via the Renderbit WhatsApp API.

🚀 Features

• ✅ Works with Laravel 10/11, Symfony, Slim, or any PHP 8.1+ app
• 🔐 PSR-16 token caching — automatic token generation, caching, and refresh with configurable TTL
• 📄 Template-based messaging — pass template IDs with dynamic parameters
• 🧠 51 built-in error codes — maps API error codes to human-readable messages
• 🧰 PSR-compliant — PSR-3 logging, PSR-16 caching, PSR-4 autoloading
• 📡 DLR endpoint — built-in delivery report webhook route
• 🧪 100% test coverage — PHPUnit test suite with CI on 6 matrix configurations
• 🔌 Laravel auto-discovery — service provider auto-registers, facade ready to use

📦 Installation

composer require renderbit/laravel-whatsapp

Requirements

⚙️ Laravel Setup

Note: This package uses Laravel auto-discovery, so the service provider is registered automatically. No manual registration needed.

1. Publish Config (optional)

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=whatsapp-config

This publishes the config file and routes to your application:

• config/whatsapp.php — configuration values
• routes/vendor/whatsapp-api.php — DLR webhook route

2. Environment Configuration

Add these to your .env:

WHATSAPP_API_BASE_URL=https://your-api-base-url.com
WHATSAPP_API_KEY=your-api-key
WHATSAPP_BUSINESS_NUMBER=918888888888
WHATSAPP_USERNAME=your-username
WHATSAPP_OLD_TOKEN=previous-token-if-refreshing

Configuration Reference (config/whatsapp.php)

🧱 Usage

In Laravel

Via Dependency Injection

use Renderbit\LaravelWhatsapp\WhatsappClient;

class MessageController extends Controller
{
    public function send(WhatsappClient $whatsapp)
    {
        $response = $whatsapp->sendMessage(
            '919876543210',        // Phone number (no special chars)
            '1043144443',          // Template ID
            ['John Doe', '1500']   // Template parameters
        );

        if ($response['success']) {
            return back()->with('success', 'Message sent!');
        }

        return back()->with('error', $response['message']);
    }
}

Via Facade

use Renderbit\LaravelWhatsapp\Facades\Whatsapp;

$response = Whatsapp::sendMessage('919876543210', '1043144443', ['Jane', '2500']);

Via app() Helper

$response = app('whatsapp')->sendMessage('919876543210', '1043144443', ['Jane', '2500']);

Response Format

All sendMessage() calls return a uniform response array:

// Success
['success' => true,  'message' => 'Message delivered successfully.']

// Failure (authentication)
['success' => false, 'message' => 'Authentication token unavailable.']

// Failure (API error code)
['success' => false, 'message' => 'Invalid phone number'] // ErrorCodes::MAP[10001]

// Failure (HTTP/network error)
['success' => false, 'message' => 'API request failed. Check logs for details.']

In Standalone PHP

use Renderbit\LaravelWhatsapp\WhatsappClient;
use Monolog\Logger;
use Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler;
use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\FilesystemAdapter;

$logger = new Logger('whatsapp');
$logger->pushHandler(new StreamHandler('php://stdout'));
$cache = new FilesystemAdapter('whatsapp', 0, '/tmp/cache');

$client = new WhatsappClient([
    'api_base_url' => 'https://your-api-base-url.com',
    'api_key' => 'your-api-key',
    'whatsapp_business_number' => '918888888888',
    'whatsapp_username' => 'your-username',
    'old_token' => null,
], $logger, $cache);

$response = $client->sendMessage('919876543210', '1043144443', ['Alice', '3000']);

🔐 Token Management

The TokenManager class handles all authentication token lifecycle automatically.

How it works:

1. getToken() checks PSR-16 cache for a valid (non-expired) token
2. If cached and valid, returns immediately
3. If expired or missing, calls generateToken() which requests a new token from the API
4. The new token and its expiry are stored in cache with the correct TTL (in seconds)
5. On HTTP 401 responses, WhatsappClient::sendRequest() automatically triggers refreshToken()

You can swap the cache backend to Redis, APCu, database, or any PSR-16 implementation.

📡 DLR Webhook

The package registers a POST route for delivery reports:

POST /whatsapp/dlr

The WhatsAppDLRController::receiveDLR() handler logs incoming delivery reports via Laravel's Log::info() and responds with {"status": "success"}.

To customize, extend the controller or disable the routes and define your own:

// Don't publish routes — override in your app's RouteServiceProvider

🗺 Error Code Reference

The package ships with 51 mapped error codes in Renderbit\LaravelWhatsapp\Constants\ErrorCodes:

You can customize messages by extending or modifying the ErrorCodes::MAP array.

🧪 Testing

composer install
vendor/bin/phpunit

The test suite covers:

• WhatsappClient — message sending, error handling, HTTP failures, token exhaustion
• TokenManager — cache hit/miss, token generation, refresh, invalid actions
• WhatsAppDLRController — DLR endpoint acceptance
• WhatsappServiceProvider — config merge, singleton binding, facade alias, publishable tags
• Whatsapp Facade — accessor resolution
• ErrorCodes — all 51 error codes validated

CI Matrix

The package is tested via GitHub Actions across 6 configurations:

📁 Project Structure

renderbit/laravel-whatsapp
├── config/
│   └── whatsapp.php             # Package configuration
├── routes/
│   └── api.php                  # DLR webhook route
├── src/
│   ├── Constants/
│   │   └── ErrorCodes.php       # 51 API error code mappings
│   ├── Facades/
│   │   └── Whatsapp.php         # Laravel facade
│   ├── Http/
│   │   └── Controllers/
│   │       └── WhatsAppDLRController.php  # DLR webhook handler
│   ├── TokenManager.php         # Token lifecycle (cache/generate/refresh)
│   ├── WhatsappClient.php       # Main API client
│   └── WhatsappServiceProvider.php  # Laravel service provider
├── tests/
│   ├── TestCase.php             # Base test case (Mockery)
│   ├── LaravelTestCase.php      # Base test case (Orchestra Testbench)
│   ├── ErrorCodesTest.php
│   ├── TokenManagerTest.php
│   ├── WhatsappClientTest.php
│   ├── WhatsAppDLRControllerTest.php
│   ├── WhatsappFacadeTest.php
│   └── WhatsappServiceProviderTest.php
├── .github/workflows/
│   └── tests.yml                # CI/CD workflow
├── composer.json
├── phpunit.xml.dist
└── README.md

🧩 Extending & Customization

• Error messages — Modify src/Constants/ErrorCodes.php to localize or customize API error messages
• Cache backend — The PSR-16 CacheInterface can be swapped for Redis, APCu, Memcached, or any compliant adapter
• Logger — The PSR-3 LoggerInterface supports Monolog, Loggly, Laravel's Log facade, etc.
• DLR handling — Extend WhatsAppDLRController to implement custom delivery report logic (store in DB, forward to webhook, etc.)
• HTTP client — GuzzleHttp\Client is used internally; customize timeouts/headers in WhatsappClient::__construct()

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Install dependencies: composer install
3. Write/run tests: vendor/bin/phpunit
4. Submit a pull request

Please ensure all tests pass and maintain at least the current coverage level.

📄 License

MIT © Renderbit Technologies