Two Way SMS Management Using Africa's Talking API's

INTRO

The RESTful API

We use the minimal Lumen as a drop-in replacement for Laravel. We also make use of HHVM instead of PHP 7.X as a matter of experimentation.

The ORM for our Database

Medoo is Light PHP Database framework that you can use with various databases for ORM work.

Database

MariaDB is a fork of MySQL DB and is useable as a complete drop-in replacement.

Docker Env

We use docker to manage our apps environment. And docker-compose to manage our containers as a network.

APP

Workflow

We are building a 2 way SMS app running on Lumen Framework.

1. A user sends an SMS to a shortcode 20414(replace with your code)
2. The App receives a HTTP POST from Africa's Talkings API and dumps the POST to DB
3. The App responds with an SMS to the Sender

RESOURCES

Composer Commands

• Download the Lumen installer using Composer

$ composer global require "laravel/lumen-installer"

The Docker Commands

• Build

$ docker build -t hhvmlaravel:1.0 .

• Run

$ docker run -d -it --name hhvm -p 8990:80 hhvmlaravel:1.0
$ docker exec -it hhvm bash

-Logs

$ docker logs --tail hhvm

• Ship

$ docker login
$ docker push grahamingokho/hhvmlaravel:1.0 .