Let's Build a Chatbot!

For SDPHP Meetup on April 11, 2018 using Botman

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1. LET'S BUILD A CHATBOT! 1
2. hi. i'm Marcus. 2
3. WHAT IS A CHATBOT? 3
5. EXAMPLES ▸ Pizza Hut / Domino's ordering ▸ H&M customer support ▸ RSS-like feeds ▸ Slackbots ▸ Knowledge-base / Referencing data ▸ Resistbot (not only for resisting) 5
6. ISSUES ▸ Disappointment... 6
7. BOTMAN 7
8. WHAT IS BOTMAN? "A framework agnostic PHP library to build chat bots" By Marcel Pociot Available at: - Botman.io - github.com/botman/botman 8
9. DRIVERS! ▸ Amazon Alexa ▸ Cisco Spark ▸ Facebook Messenger ▸ Hangouts Chat ▸ HipChat ▸ Microsoft Bot Framework ▸ Nexmo ▸ Slack ▸ Telegram ▸ Twilio ▸ Web ▸ WeChat 9
10. "A framework agnostic PHP library to build chat bots" 10
11. BOTMAN STUDIO! 11
12. GETTING STARTED WITH BOTMAN STUDIO ▸ A pre-configured Laravel application to get you started using BotMan quickly ▸ botman new my-bot 12
13. LET'S BUILD A TELEGRAM BOT 13
14. CREATE A TELEGRAM BOT ▸ Super easy to get up and running ▸ Uses the BotFather 14
15. BOTMAN STUDIO ▸ Easy as php artisan botman:install-driver telegram ▸ Installs Telegram package and creates the configuration file ▸ Add your Telegram token that BotFather gave you ▸ Ping the Telegram webhook via php artisan botman:telegram:register 15
16. TRY IT OUT ▸ Botman comes with a pre-configured response to "hi" so let's try that ▸ Open up Telegram and send "hi" 16
17. BOTMAN FEATURES ▸ User Details ▸ Attachments can be sent and received ▸ Events ▸ Natural Language Processing 17
18. TIPS ▸ K.I.S.S. - Keep it Simple ... ▸ Build a Chatbot video course 18
19. Questions? 19