Laravel 8 Send SMS Notification to Mobile/ Phone Example

Laravel 8 send sms using nexmo example; In this tutorial, you will learn how to send SMS notification to mobile using nexmo in laravel 8 app.

How to Send SMS/Messages to Phone/Mobile in Laravel 8

• Step 1 – Download Laravel 8 Application
• Step 2 – Connecting App to Database
• Step 3 – Install SMS Package
• Step 4 – Create Route
• Step 5 – Create Controller By Artisan Command
• Step 6 – Run Development Server

Step 1 – Download Laravel 8 Application

First of all download or install laravel 8 new setup. So, open terminal and type the following command to install new laravel 8 app into your machine:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Step 2 – Connecting App to Database

In this step, setup database with your downloded/installed laravel 8 app. So, you need to find .env file and setup database details as following:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=database-name
DB_USERNAME=database-user-name
DB_PASSWORD=database-password

Step 3 – Install SMS Pakcage

In this step, open again your command prompt and execute the following command on it. To install nexmo sms package:

composer require nexmo/client

Then visit nexmo website and create nexmo account from here : https://www.nexmo.com. When you will be done account creation. This will give you the app id and secret key.

Step 4 – Create Routes

In this step, open web.php file from routes direcotry. And update the following routes into web.php file:

  use App\Http\Controllers\SendSMSController;


  Route::get('send-sms', [SendSMSController::class, 'index']);

Step 5 – Create Controller By Artisan Command

In this step, run the following command on command prompt to create controller file:

php artisan make:controller SendSMSController

After that, go to app/http/controllers and open SendSMSController.php file. And update the following code into it:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;



class SendSMSController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $basic  = new \Nexmo\Client\Credentials\Basic('key', 'secret');
        $client = new \Nexmo\Client($basic);

        $message = $client->message()->send([
            'to' => '9181600*****',
            'from' => 'Nexmo',
            'text' => 'A text message sent using the Nexmo SMS API'
        ]);

        dd('message send successfully');
    }
}

Step 6 – Run Development Server

Finally, open command prompt and run the following command to start developement server:

php artisan serve

Then open your browser and hit the following url on it:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/send-sms

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