Hello Artisans,

How are you doing? In this tutorial, I’ll show you,Send SMS in mobile using nexmo from your laravel application. If you don’t know how to send SMS using nexmo from laravel, don’t worry You are the right place. I will show you everything from scratch step by step. So here we go.

In this example, I will show you a very simple example of sending sms using nexmo/vonage api in the laravel app. You can easily use this code the version of laravel 6,7 and 8.

let’s follow bellow steps:

Nexmo SMS Laravel

Step 1: Install Laravel

In this step, we need to download a fresh laravel project as we will see it from scratch. To install Laravel via Composer run the below command.

composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel_nexmo

Step 2: Create Nexmo Account

Then, You have to create a nexmo account. If already you have an account don’t need to create an account, otherwise create an account from here: https://dashboard.nexmo.com/sign-in.

Step 3: Add Your Nexmo Credentials in .env file

Add on env file as like bellow:

.env

NEXMO_KEY=XXXXXXXXXX
NEXMO_SECRET=XXXXXXXXXXXX

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Step 4: Install nexmo/client Package via composer

In this step,You have to install nexmo/client package using composer. Run this code in your terminal.

composer require nexmo/client

Step 5: Create Controller

Now time to create a controller, Run this code in your terminal

php artisan make:controller SmsController

Now you have to go SmsController.

App\Http\Controllers\SmsController.php

use Exception;
use Vonage\SMS\Client;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

public function index()
    {
        $code = rand(100,500);
        $basic  = new \Vonage\Client\Credentials\Basic("NEXMO_KEY", "NEXMO_SECRET");
        $client = new \Vonage\Client($basic);
        $response = $client->sms()->send(
            new \Vonage\SMS\Message\SMS("SMS_FROM", 'BRAND', "Your verification code is $code")
        );

        $message = $response->current();

        if ($message->getStatus() == 0) {
            echo "The message was sent successfully\n";
        } else {
            echo "The message failed with status: " . $message->getStatus() . "\n";
        }

    }

Then copy this index method and paste inside your controller then customize according to your requirement.

Nexmo SMS Laravel

Step 6: Create Route

Now create a route in web.php file.

routes\web.php

<?php

use App\Http\Controllers\SmsController;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;



Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});
Route::get('sendSMS', [SmsController::class, 'index']);

Congratulations. Our all step has done. Now run php artisan serve in your terminal.

 php artisan serve 

Now hit this URL http://127.0.0.1:8000/sendSMS in your browser. Then check your phone. . . . .

Nexmo SMS Laravel

Hope It will help You .

Github : https://github.com/AR-Shahin/Laravel_SMS

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