Originally published at: http://www.sitepoint.com/using-github-webhooks-php/
In the first part of our series, we talked about the Github API and built a demo in the process. In this part we are going to explore the Webhooks API, and we will build a demo to showcase the API usage. Let’s get started.
What We’re Building
In this article we are going to set up a demo that receives every push from Github and saves it to a database. We are also going to create a page to display the list of our repository committers ordered by the number of commits. You can check the final result on Github.
Setting Up the Environment
We will be using Laravel 5 as our framework, and because our application must be accessible from the internet to work with Github Webhooks, we can use Heroku to host our code. You can check this post to get started with Heroku.
Configuration
Adding Mysql
After creating our app on Heroku, we need to add MySQL to store the received data.
heroku addons:add cleardbYou can go to your dashboard to get your database connection credentials. Set the necessary variables inside your config as you can see in the example below.
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