buguelos / dash

Developer manual

Intro

WhatsApp Messenger allows to mass broadcast whatsapp message to predefined groups of users.

Requirements and components

WhatsApp Messenger is built using:

• Cron - cronjob.php is script run every minute. It's responsible for sending messages to whatsapp server
• MySQL - stores data (except attachements)
• PHP - 5.3.2+

PHP Packages

WhatsApp uses following PHP dependencies:

Slim

Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.

Used features:

• MVC
• Routing
• Authentication
• Error handling

Twig

Twig is a modern template engine for PHP

WhatsAPI

WhatsAPI is an opensource library developed by Max Kovaljov. It's allows communication Whatsapp servers which include registration, message sending and receiving

Files layout

There are following directories

• /img, /css, /js - program assets
• /logs - log dir, should be writable
• /upload - attachments dir (for multimedia files), should be writable
• /src - PHP sources
• /tmpl - Twig templates
• /vendor - PHP dependecies
• /index.php - main file
• /config.php - config file

Namespaces

There are two namespaces used by program:

• GitGis::Auth - authentication functions
• GitGis::Whatsapp - main program functions

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