Installation#

Create Twitch Developer App#

Create a new Twitch Developer App and set the Client ID and Client Secret as described below.

Install the package#

You can install this package via composer using:

composer require marcreichel/igdb-laravel

The package will automatically register its service provider.

To publish the config file to config/igdb.php run:

php artisan igdb:publish

This is the default content of the config file:

<?php
 
return [
    /*
     * These are the credentials you got from https://dev.twitch.tv/console/apps 
     */
    'credentials' => [
        'client_id' => env('TWITCH_CLIENT_ID', ''),
        'client_secret' => env('TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET', ''),
    ],
 
    /*
     * This package caches queries automatically (for 1 hour per default).
     * Here you can set how long each query should be cached (in seconds).
     *
     * To turn cache off set this value to 0
     */
    'cache_lifetime' => env('IGDB_CACHE_LIFETIME', 3600),
 
    /*
     * Path where the webhooks should be handled.
     */
    'webhook_path' => 'igdb-webhook/handle',
 
    /*
     * The webhook secret.
     *
     * This needs to be a string of your choice in order to use the webhook
     * functionality.
     */
    'webhook_secret' => env('IGDB_WEBHOOK_SECRET'),
];