Send webhooks with your Laravel application

Benjamin Iduwe
2 min readMar 27, 2021

Laravel webhook allows businesses to send webhooks to their merchants/clients with ease. This package also introduces a new artisan command to generate a webhook class.

Requirement

  • Composer v1.0/2.0
  • Php (7.3 and above)
  • Laravel (6 and above).

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require bencoderus/laravel-webhook

Setup

Publish basic components. (migrations and configuration files)

php artisan webhook:install

Run migrations

php artisan migrate

Basic usage

Create a new webhook class

php artisan make:webhook PaymentWebhook

Creates a new webhook class in App\Http\Webhooks

You can format your webhook payload like a resource.

public function data(): array
{
return [
'status' => $this->status,
'amount' => $this->amount,
'currency' => 'USD',
];
}

Sending a webhook.

$transaction = Transaction::first();$webhook = new PaymentWebhook($transaction);
$webhook->url('https://httpbin.com')->send();

Sending with an encrypted signature

$transaction = Transaction::first();$webhook = new PaymentWebhook($transaction);
$webhook->url('https://httpbin.com')
->withSignature('x-key', 'value_to_hash')
->send();

The default hashing algorithm is sha512 you can change it by passing a different hashing algorithm as the third parameter for the withSignature method. PHP currently supports over 50 hashing algorithms.

Sending webhooks without using a Queue.
By default, all webhooks are dispatched using a queue to facilitate webhook retrial after failure. You can also send webhooks without using a Queue by passing false to the send method.

$transaction = Transaction::first();$webhook = new PaymentWebhook($transaction);
$webhook->url('https://httpbin.com')->send(false);

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