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How to Interact with Facebook Users Using a Basic PHP Facebook Messenger Bot: Exchange messages with Facebook Messenger users

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Author

uche

This class can exchange messages with Facebook Messenger users.

It can process the contents of a message received by a Facebook Messenger bot script and returns the message sender's Facebook user identifier and the message text.

The class can also send a message to a Facebook user via Facebook Messenger.

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Example

<?php
/*Created by MmuoDev.
 */
require_once 'classes/botClass.php';
require_once 'classes/constants.php';

if (isset($_GET['hub_verify_token'])) {
    if ($_GET['hub_verify_token'] === VERIFY_TOKEN) { //Token entered during setup. It is defined as a constant in constants.php
        echo $_GET['hub_challenge'];
        return;
    } else {
        echo 'Invalid Verify Token';
        return;
    }
}
$accessToken = ACCESS_TOKEN; //Access token generated by Facebook. It is defined as a constant in constants.php.
$bot = new botClass(); //Initialize an object of the bot class
$input = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true); //JSON decode messages received
$bot->setAccessToken($accessToken);
$message = $bot->readMessage($input); //Call the method that reads messages
$bot->sendMessage($message); //Call the method that sends messages

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