Discord-Webhooks

Use Discord's webhook feature with ease!

What are webhooks?

From Discord's documentation:

Discord's built in Webhooks function as an easy way to get automated messages and data updates sent to a text channel in your server. Think of them as one of those fancy pneumatic tube things you used to love sending money into at a bank and watch disappear, but instead of never seeing your money again, you're actually sending messages into Discord from another platform.

What does this library do?

Previously, in order to send some data to a Discord webhook, you would need to write the JSON code manually, or structure the data yourself, fire it off with curl/some other method, and so on. The code to do so isn't developer friendly and can be confusing to amateurs.

The aim of this library is to simplify the usage of webhooks so that everyone can leverage their power.

Take the following as an example:

$webhookURL = "https://discordapp.com/api/webhooks/my-webhook-url";

$jsonData = [
    "embeds" => [
        [
            "title" => "My Webhook Title",
            "description" => "My Webhook Description",
            "url" => "https://playersquared.com",
            "color" => 4433631,
            "timestamp" => date("Y-m-d\\TH:i:s.u\\Z"),
            "thumbnail" => [
                "url" => "https://cdn.discordapp.com/embed/avatars/0.png",
            ],
            "author" => [
                "name" => "JB",
                "url" => "https://playersquared.com/forums/members/jb/",
                "icon_url" => "https://cdn.discordapp.com/embed/avatars/4.png",
            ]
        ]
    ]
];

$ch = curl_init($webhookURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($jsonData));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

Now, the same code with Discord-Webhooks:

$webhook = new \DiscordWebhooks\Webhook("https://discordapp.com/api/webhooks/my-webhook-url");
$embed   = new \DiscordWebhooks\Embeds\Embed();

$embed->setTitle("My Webhook Title")
    ->setDescription("My Webhook Description")
    ->setUrl("https://playersquared.com")
    ->setColor("#43a6df")
    ->setTimestamp($webhook->currentTimestamp());

$embed->thumbnail()->setUrl("https://cdn.discordapp.com/embed/avatars/0.png");
$embed->author()->setName("JB")
    ->setUrl("https://playersquared.com/forums/members/jb/")
    ->setIconUrl("https://cdn.discordapp.com/embed/avatars/4.png");

$webhook->embeds()->add($embed);
$webhook->send();

Working with Discord's webhooks has never been this simple.

How can I use this library?

Discord-Webhooks can be installed to your PHP project by using composer:

composer require jbdabes/discord-webhooks