Discord Webhook Sender

A simple & lightweight webhook sender.

Based on the code from this Stack exchange answer, this library is a lightweight Discord Webhook Event Sender that comes with two main functions.

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Installation

run the following command in your project

composer require louisgjbertrand/discordwebhook

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Usage

Requirements

the buit-in CURL Library is required. please uncomment the curl library in your php.ini file

# in the php.ini file
extension=curl

require the class in the php script you need it in.

require './vendor/autoload.php';

use LouisGJBertrand\DiscordWebhook\DiscordWebhook;

Sending the event

you just have to use the Send function to send a message. only the url is required in this function.

you can use a pointer to store the json response from the discord api using the response param.

DiscordWebhook::Send($webhookurl, content: $content, response: $response);

not all parameters are supported in the current state, but will be added later. It's mapping the discord webhook api.

static public function Send(
        string $webhookurl,
        string $content = null,
        string $username = null,
        string $avatar_url = null,
        bool $tts = false,
        array $embeds = null,
        string &$response = null)

note: tts is text to speech.

Generating embeded messages

you can create an array in order to create an embeded message using this function

$embed = DiscordWebhook::GenerateEmbed(title: "test", description: "test embeded message");
$embeds = [$embed];

putting the embeded message in an array is necessary since it's asked in the discord webhook documentation. the maximum embeded messages by webhook events is 10.

the function, to generate an embeded message follows the discord documentation.

static public function GenerateEmbed(
        string $title = null,
        string $type = null,
        string $description = null,
        string $url = null,
        int $timestamp = null,
        int $color= null,
        array $footer= null,
        array $image= null,
        array $thumbnail= null,
        array $video= null,
        array $provider= null,
        array $author= null,
        array $fields= null): array

in the future, arrays will be replaced by discord api objects but will still remain retro compatible.

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Example Script

you can find this example script in the tests/ folder.

require './vendor/autoload.php';

use LouisGJBertrand\DiscordWebhook\DiscordWebhook;


// Replace with the webhook url
$webhookurl = "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/.../...";


$embed = DiscordWebhook::GenerateEmbed(title: "test", description: "test embeded message");
$embeds = [$embed];

DiscordWebhook::Send($webhookurl, embeds: $embeds, response: $response);

// returns the response from the Discord API
var_dump($response);

Notes

this library does not use ssl verification for curl by default. Please set the secure flag in the static variable DiscordWebhook::$SECURE_CURL_CONNECTION to true in order to use SSL verification for CURL.

External Ressources

1 - composer documentation 2 - Discord Webhook Documentation 3 - Discord Embeded Message Documentation 4 - Stack Exchange Discord Webhook Original Post