This library provides provides a convient interface for developing Amazon Alexa Skills for your PHP app.
Install via composer: composer require softxperience/amazon-alexa-php
.
When Amazon Alexa triggers your skill, a HTTP request will be sent to the URL you specified for your app.
You can parse the JSON
body of the request like so:
$jsonDataAsArray = $request->json()->all(); // This is how you would retrieve this with Laravel
$alexaRequest = \Alexa\Request\Request::fromData($jsonDataAsArray);
You can determine the type of the request with instanceof
, e.g.:
if ($alexaRequest instanceof IntentRequest) {
// Handle intent here
}
You can build an Alexa response with the Response
class. You can optionally set a card or a reprompt too.
Here's a few examples.
$response = new \Alexa\Response\Response;
$response->respond('Cooool. I\'ll lower the temperature a bit for you!')
->withCard('Temperature decreased by 2 degrees');
$response = new \Alexa\Response\Response;
$response->respond('What is your favorite color?')
->reprompt('Please tell me your favorite color');
To output the response, simply use the ->render()
function, e.g. in Laravel you would create the response like so:
return response()->json($response->render());
In vanilla PHP:
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($response->render());
exit;
- Verify request timestamp integrity automatically