Step‑by‑Step Guide: Integrate Alibaba Cloud SMS with Laravel 5.6

Prerequisites

Register an Alibaba Cloud account (personal or corporate) and obtain access_key and access_secret. Add these values to your Laravel project configuration.

Server Requirements

PHP >= 7.1.3

OpenSSL extension

PDO extension

Mbstring extension

Tokenizer extension

XML extension

Ctype extension

JSON extension

1. Create a Laravel 5.6 Project

Make sure Composer is installed ( composer -v). Then run:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog "5.6.*"

Generate the application key: php artisan key:generate Visit http://localhost/blog/public/index.php to confirm the installation.

2. Add the Alibaba Cloud SMS Package

Edit composer.json and add the dependency:

{
  "require": {
    "php": "^7.1.3",
    "mrgoon/aliyun-sms": "dev-master",
    "fideloper/proxy": "^4.0",
    "laravel/framework": "5.8.*",
    "laravel/tinker": "^1.0"
  }
}

Install the package:

composer update
composer dumpautoload