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Twilio Cookbook

You're reading from   Twilio Cookbook The Twilio cookbook will enable all kinds of telephone usage, including SMS, on your websites. It's a totally practical guide with a hands-on approach to help you dig deep into the enormous potential of telephone facilities on the Web.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166061
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Twilio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Into the Frying Pan 2. Now We're Cooking FREE CHAPTER 3. Conducting Surveys via SMS 4. Building a Conference Calling System 5. Combining Twilio with Other APIs 6. Sending and Receiving SMS Messages 7. Building a Reminder System 8. Building an IVR System 9. Building Your Own PBX 10. Digging into OpenVBX Index

Scheduling a conference call


The conference call scheduler is going to let you enter details to schedule a conference call. This will let you set up participants, the moderator, and when the call will take place.

Getting ready

The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the Chapter4/ folder.

How to do it...

Ok, ready? For our first recipe, we're going to build the scheduling and conference management sections.

  1. Download the Twilio Helper Library from (https://github.com/twilio/twilio-php/zipball/master) and unzip it.

  2. Upload the Services/ folder to your website.

  3. Add sql.sql to your database.

  4. Upload config.php to your website and make sure the following variables are set:

    <?php
    $accountsid = '';  //  YOUR TWILIO ACCOUNT SID
    $authtoken = '';   //  YOUR TWILIO AUTH TOKEN
    $fromNumber = '';  //  PHONE NUMBER CALLS WILL COME FROM
    $conferenceNumber = '';  //  Number to call into.
    $dbhost = '';  //  YOUR DATABASE HOST
    $dbname = '';  //  YOUR DATABASE NAME
    $dbuser = '';  //  YOUR DATABASE USER...
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