This framework is designed for creating Slack chat bots

Framework-based app skeleton: https://github.com/evgeny-zinder/slack-bot-app-skeleton

Features:

• communicates with Slack using real-time WebSocket connection
• able to respond (by running callback PHP functions) to any message patterns
• able to run ansible-style playbooks with extensible set of actions

git clone git@github.com:evgeny-zinder/slack-bot.git
cd slack-bot
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install

1. Start server

    php bin/slackbot.php server:start --config=config.yml
   

2. Start RTM WebSocket listener (if you plan to work with user input)

    php bin/slackbot.php rtm:start --config=config.yml
   

3. Run playbook

    php bin/slackbot.php playbook:run --playbook=examples/0-simple-message.yml