How to send webhook in Laravel 8

In this article, i will share with you how to send a webhook from your laravel application to any other application for example.

What is a webhook?

First, we need to know what is webhook? webhook is one type of notification that we want to send to any third-party application after done some tasks in our system. like, after payment our system wants to send POST data notifications to the merchant application or server, so they know the payment process is done.

In, another way webhook also use one backup system notification.

In this article, we will see how to send a webhook from laravel application with an example. if you never work with webhook then don't worry here I share with you a very simple example.

Please open 'https://webhook.site/' for testing your webhook here. it's the best side for webhook testing.

Step - 1 : Create Route

Route::get('send-test-webhook', [SendWebhookController::class, 'send'])->name('send-test-webhook');

Step - 2 : Create Controller

Now, we need to make one 'SendWebhookController.php' file in 'app/Http/Controllers' and simply write in this controller your send webhook logic and function.

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class SendWebhookController extends Controller
{
    public function send(Request $request)
    {
        $url = 'https://webhook.site/2d5153b6-5cb3-4c5a-8d05-7c680b17924d';
        $data = [
            'status_code' => 200, 
            'status' => 'success',
            'message' => 'webhook send successfully',
            'extra_data' => [
                'first_name' => 'Harsukh',
                'last_name' => 'Makwana',
            ],
        ];
    	$json_array = json_encode($data);
        $curl = curl_init();
        $headers = ['Content-Type: application/json'];

        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json_array);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);

        $response = curl_exec($curl);
        $http_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

        curl_close($curl);

        if ($http_code >= 200 && $http_code < 300) {
            echo "webhook send successfully.";
        } else {
            echo "webhook failed.";
        }
    }
}

i hope you like this article.