Building a Chatbot with Laravel and BotMan
Building a Chatbot with Laravel and BotMan
About the Book
Building a Chatbot with Laravel and BotMan is a hands on guide to building your own personal chatbot. You'll learn how to onboard new users, allow them to access your latest articles, push out new articles in real-time and respond to smalltalk. Amongst other things, we'll cover onboarding, conversations, initiating the sending of messages to users as well as touch on natural language processing.
By the end of the book, you will have learnt the core skills needed to start building your own fully featured and tested chatbot in PHP.
About the Authors
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- What Is a Chatbot?
- Examples
- Why Should You Build a Chatbot?
- Prerequisites
- What Are We Going to Build?
- Technologies
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Planning
- Onboarding
- Presenting a List of Articles
- Pushing Out Articles
- Mailing List Subscription
- Small Talk
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Getting Started With BotMan
- Installation
- Drivers
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Building a Driver for BotMan
- ubisend
- Building a ubisend Driver for BotMan
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Onboarding
- What Makes a Good Onboarding Experience?
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Triggering the Onboarding Sequence
- Persisting Users
- New User?
- Triggering the Onboarding Sequence?
- Ignoring Other Commands
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The RSS Parser
- Writing an RSS Parser
- Importing the Feed
- Delivering a List of Articles
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Signing Up for the Mailing List
- Asking a Question
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Pushing Out Content
- Preparing the Articles for Sending
- Sending the Messages
- Marking Messages as Sent
- Firing the Job
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Small Talk
- Setting Up Dialogflow
- Wiring up the Chatbot
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Testing
- Testing That a New User Will Trigger the Onboarding Sequence
- Testing an Existing User Does Not Trigger Onboarding
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Conclusion
- So What Have You Learned?
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