Slack Laravel Package

You can now specify author_name, author_link and author_icon fields in your attachments.

You can also specify a thumb_url to provide a thumbnail image with the attachment.

Add support and prefer Guzzle 6. We still support Guzzle 5 and 4 just fine.

You can now provide an optional title and title_link field in attachments. Thanks @iwiznia.

You can now use the image_url field to embed images in attachments. Thanks @Leenug for the contribution.

You can now typehint for a Maknz\Slack\Client in the constructor of classes created via Laravel's IoC container, rather than being forced to use the Slack facade. Thanks @tzookb for the addition.

This release includes compatibility changes for Laravel 5. Laravel 4 is still fully supported also.

• Markdown support: the ability to disable Markdown parsing of messages, and the ability to specify Markdown parsing for attachment properties.
• Slack have updated unfurling to differentiate text-based URLs and media-based URLs, which have both been added as settings on the client.

Upgrading

Laravel users may wish to re-publish their configuration with php artisan config:publish maknz/slack to get the new fields. Make sure to backup your current config file so you can port your settings across to the new file.

• Decoupled messaging from the client to prevent side effects and be a bit more usable
• Moved from PSR-2 to PSR-4 autoloading
• Implemented missing link_names and unfurl_links options
• Tidied up the documentation

Upgrading from 0.x.x to 1.0.0

The API has stayed much the same, so as long as you were following examples in the README, there shouldn't be any breaks for basic usage. If you have problems or want aspects of the new layout explained, log an issue.

If you're using Laravel, you may wish to re-publish the configuration (php artisan config:publish maknz/slack) in order to get the new configuration options. Everything will work without it though.

We now prefer Guzzle 5, but are compatible with 4. Loosens the version constraint.

A fix which will enable Unicode characters to be sent to Slack. Thanks to @serima for the bug report.

FIxes issue #3.

This release revamps the interface for using the library, and adds functionality for attachments and icons. We now cover all functionality provided by Slack's incoming webhooks.

The interface has changed from 0.1.x, where you used to type:

Slack::send('message', '#channel', 'username');

you would now use

Slack::from('username')->to('#channel')->send('message');

which is more expressive and elegant.

See the README for detailed examples of the new syntax, and also how to use the new attachment and icon functionality.

If upgrading from 0.1.x, you will need to change your code if you are customising the channel and username in the call to Slack::send() to use the syntax above, and you will need to re-publish the Laravel configuration using php artisan config:publish maknz/slack.

The package can now be used (more easily) outside of Laravel. Instructions are in the README.

A minor update to the project's dependencies to allow for usage with Laravel 4.2.

The first release of the package.