Biblebot

Introduction

A laravel-based chatbot with botman as it's foundation.

The enduser may ask for Bibleverse(s) (eg. John 3:16) or will somehow execute a searchterm that the bot will try to interpret. Next, it will miraculously provide a suitable (biblical) answer.

The proof of concept uses API endpoints of a dutch NBV translation.

Requirements

• Webserver;
• PHP 7.1 (as module in the webserver);
• PHP 7.1 (cli)

Install

• Clone this github repo;
• Run composer install
• Run cp .env.example .env
• Run php artisan key:generate

Documentation

• https://botman.io/2.0/botman-studio
• https://dialogflow.com/

Function flow

1. Facebook messenger user input [question] -->
2. Botman InputHandler-->
3. Dialogflow -->
4. Botman IntentHandler [answer]-->
5. Facebook messenger

Botman

passes user input to Dialogflow,

• botman: public/biblebot/routes/botman.php

Dialogflow

Analyses user input and gives an intent back.

Inputhandler

instantiates the appropriate IntentHandler.

• Inputhandler: public/biblebot/app/InputHandler.php

Intenthandler

Get an answer form an external API.

• Intenthandlers: public/biblebot/app/IntentHandlers/*

Api's

• https://bijbel.eo.nl/api
• https://onesignal.com/api (public/biblebot/app/ApiHandler.php)

testing

• http://dev-server.nl/botman/tinker

Server configuration

On Amazon, some CentOS host: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_Tutorials.WebServerDB.CreateWebServer.html Configure port forwarding on port 22/80/443.

Search latest version of PHP yum search php7

Install latest version yum install php71

Search modssl yum search all mod_ssl

Install modssl yum install mod24_ssl

Obtain a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate from https://www.sslforfree.com/ and place certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/

Configure /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf (Highlighted certificates are obtained from Let's Encrypt) <VirtualHost _default_:443> ... ServerName hacknl.arrishuijgen.nl:443 ... SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/certificate.crt ... SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/certs/private.key ... SSLCACertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ca_bundle_letsencrypt.crt

Miscellaneous

Install composer curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php chmod +x composer.phar mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer composer -V

PHP mb_string yum install php71-mbstring

Fix permissions chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/storage/botman