botman/botman

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6161 stars · 814 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

BotMan is a framework-agnostic PHP library for building chatbots that work across multiple messaging platforms like Slack, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, and Amazon Alexa. It provides an expressive hears/reply/ask syntax, conversation management, and pluggable drivers so one codebase can serve many messengers.

Use cases

• build a chatbot in php
• create a slack bot with php
• one chatbot for multiple messaging platforms
• add a telegram bot to an existing php app
• build a facebook messenger bot
• handle bot conversations and follow-up questions in php
• add a chat widget to my website

When to choose

• you're a PHP developer building bots for Slack, Telegram, Messenger, or other messengers
• you want one bot codebase that works across multiple messaging services
• you need conversational flows (ask/reply) with a simple expressive API
• you want to embed a bot into an existing PHP application or Laravel project

When to avoid

• your stack is not PHP
• you need modern LLM/agent-based chatbot features rather than rule-based messaging
• you require drivers for platforms not covered by the available BotMan drivers
• you need a framework with very recent active development and cutting-edge features

Facets

framework · maturity maintenance

chatbot webhook middleware nlp testing chatbots messaging-platforms web-development php self-hosted bot-framework messaging-drivers framework-agnostic conversations slack telegram facebook-messenger laravel automation web-server

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