I'm trying to use your plugin on laravel 5.8 and it's not working.

[dela-dels]

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;

class Attendee extends Model
{
    use Notifiable;

    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected  $fillable = [
        'lastname', 'firstname', 'phone', 'alt_phone', 'email', 'dob', 'location', 'school', 'gender'
    ];

    public function routeNotificationForSMS()
    {
        return $this->phone; // where phone is a cloumn in your users table;
    }
}

This is my Model for attendees of a program.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;

use NotificationChannels\Hubtel\HubtelChannel;

use NotificationChannels\Hubtel\HubtelMessage;

class SendConfirmationSMSController extends Notification
{
    public function via($notifiable)
    {
        return [HubtelChannel::class];
    }

    public function toSMS($notifiable)
    {
        return ( new HubtelMessage )
                            ->from("The Program Hubb")
                            ->content('Just Testing it out');
    }
}

This is my controller that sends the SMS.

what I have realized is that the message is not being sent to the recipient.

[Norris1z]

Does it throw an exception?

[Norris1z]

I think you should also read the latest notice in the changelog section of the readme.md which talks about IP whitelisting.

[dela-dels]

Does it throw an exception?

Nah. it doesnt throw any exception. Surprisingly.

[dela-dels]

I'm developing and testing on my local machine at the moment. I haven't hosted it.

[Norris1z]

Have you published the config files? As in added the credentials to your .env?

[dela-dels]

Have you published the config files? As in added the credentials to your .env?

Yes. I added the credentials to the.env files didn't use the config file

[Norris1z]

Do you have enough sms balance in your hubtel account?

[dela-dels]

Lol Yes. GHS 10.00

Do you have enough sms balance in your hubtel account?

LoL. Yes, I do. GHS 10.00 I think.

[Norris1z]

lol

[dela-dels]

so what's the way forward? does everything look good in my controller and model? I tried sending the number ass both +233 and normal 020 both didn't work.

[Norris1z]

Everything looks good to me. Check your sms reports on hubtel if the messages were sent actually or try using your credentials with postman just to confirm everything works fine.

[dela-dels]

Okay Sure. Will do that and give you feedback.

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Everything looks good to me. Check your sms reports on hubtel if the messages were sent actually or try using your credentials with postman just to confirm everything works fine. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[dela-dels]

@Norris1z Is is possible that me not saving the phone numbers as "+233......" be the issue? Because numbers in my database are saved as 020, 024, etc.

[Norris1z]

Okay Sure. Will do that and give you feedback. …

Did you try this?

[Norris1z]

@dela-dels I created a new project to replicate the issue and it is true that the messages are not sent. In my case it was a 400 Bad Request error. The problem is that the sender name must have no spaces and must be 11 characters or less

From
string
REQUIRED
The sender address.Sender IDs must be 11 characters or less without spaces or 16 numbers.

[Norris1z]

Here's a link to Hubtel's SMS documentation

https://developers.hubtel.com/reference#send-message

Feel free to submit a PR to update the README with the necessary information.

Oh and don't forget to update the link in the Available Message methods section in the README as it is a dead link now.

[dela-dels]

@dela-dels I created a new project to replicate the issue and it is true that the messages are not sent. In my case, it was a 400 Bad Request error. The problem is that the sender name must have no spaces and must be 11 characters or less

From
string
REQUIRED
The sender address.Sender IDs must be 11 characters or less without spaces or 16 numbers.

So what did you do to resolve this? because changing my sender id to less than 11 characters still doesn't get the message sent

[Norris1z]

[Norris1z]

Reducing the characters worked for me

[dela-dels]

Doesn't work for me.

can I get a snippet of your implementation, please?

[Norris1z]

https://github.com/Norris1z/Hubtel-SMS-Test

[dela-dels]

After digging deep into the Laravel documentation as wells as the sample implementation you posted, I have been able to figure it out and it's working fine now.

All I needed to do was to tweak my implementation a bit to suit my requirements.

Thanks, @Norris1z for this package.