Bangla SMS

As of Laravel 10, it only supports Vonage as the SMS notification channel. But smkbd/bangla-sms package lets you utilize Bangladeshi bulk SMS services to send SMS notifications.

This package supports a number of Bangladeshi SMS service providers/gateways (see below).

Version Support

Laravel Version	Support
Laravel 10	✔️
Laravel 9	✔️
Laravel 8	✔️
Laravel 7	Not tested
Laravel 6	Not tested

Installation

The following command will add the latest version of the package to your Laravel project.

composer require smkbd/bangla-sms

Configuration

1. Publish the configuration file

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=bangla-sms

It will publish bangla-sms.php in your project's /config directory.

2. Configure SMS service provider keys and API tokens

You will need to set all the required keys and API tokens in the published /config/bangla-sms.php config file.

'smsq' => [
    'client_id' => 'SET_CLIENT_ID_HERE',
    'api_key' => 'SET_API_KEY_HERE',
    'sender_id' => 'SET_SENDER_ID_HERE',
    ...
]

3. Routing SMS Notification

To enable a notifiable (e.g. user) to receive SMS notifications, you need to tell the package where the SMS will be sent by defining a routeNotificationForBanglaSms method. For example, if your user phone number is stored in phone_number column of the database, you can do it in the following way-

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable;

    ...

    public function routeNotificationForBanglaSms()
    {
        return $this->phone_number;
    }
}

4. Configuring the Laravel Notification class

Configure your Notification class in the following way-

use Smkbd\BanglaSms\BanglaSmsChannel;

class ProductPurchased extends Notification
{

    ...

    public function via(object $notifiable): array
    {
        return [BanglaSmsChannel::class];
    }

    public function toBanglaSms(object $notifiable)
    {
        return "SMS content goes here";
    }

    ...
}

You can also utilize the queue mechanism with this channel as you would do normally.

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;

class ProductPurchased extends Notification implements ShouldQueue
{
    use Queueable;
    
    ...
    
}

Sending SMS without Notification class

You can send SMS directly (i.e. without initiating any notification class) by making use of the Smkbd\BanglaSms\Sender class in the following way-

use Smkbd\BanglaSms\Sender;

...

$sender = new Sender("My message", ["01712345678", "01987654321"]);
$sender->send();

You can also specify an SMS provider like this-

use Smkbd\BanglaSms\Sender;
use Smkbd\BanglaSms\Provider\Smsq;
...

$provider = new Smsq();
$sender = new Sender("My message", ["01712345678", "01987654321"], $provider);
$sender->send();

Available SMS providers

Provider	Required info	Status
SMSQ	client_id, sender_id, api_token	✔️
SMS NOC	token, sender_id	✔️

I don't have the required info. Where do I get it?

If you are registered with an SMS gateway service provider, you can ask them about the API tokens/IDs. They will be able to help you with it.