Getting Started with TMI.php

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GhostZero
Software Developer
Published at April 26, 2021

Installation

To install TMI, you need to be using Composer in your project. For more details about Composer, see the Composer documentation.

composer require ghostzero/tmi

Usage

Please note that you cannot send any messages without OAuth Token. You can get an OAuth Token with the Twitch Chat OAuth Password Generator (which is one of the best known generators to generate a Twitch OAuth Token).

Without OAuth Token

use GhostZero\Tmi\Client;
use GhostZero\Tmi\ClientOptions;
use GhostZero\Tmi\Events\Twitch\MessageEvent;

$client = new Client(new ClientOptions([
    'connection' => [
        'secure' => true,
        'reconnect' => true,
        'rejoin' => true,
    ],
    'channels' => ['ghostzero']
]));

$client->on(MessageEvent::class, function (MessageEvent $e) {
    print "{$e->tags['display-name']}: {$e->message}";
});

$client->connect();

With OAuth Token

use GhostZero\Tmi\Client;
use GhostZero\Tmi\ClientOptions;
use GhostZero\Tmi\Events\Twitch\MessageEvent;

$client = new Client(new ClientOptions([
    'options' => ['debug' => true],
    'connection' => [
        'secure' => true,
        'reconnect' => true,
        'rejoin' => true,
    ],
    'identity' => [
        'username' => 'ghostzero',
        'password' => 'oauth:...',
    ],
    'channels' => ['ghostzero']
]));

$client->on(MessageEvent::class, function (MessageEvent $e) use ($client) {
    if ($e->self) return;

    if (strtolower($e->message) === '!hello') {
        $client->say($e->channel->getName(), "@{$e->user}, heya!");
    }
});

$client->connect();
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