Scheduling reminders via text

This reminder system will let us send a text and get a reminder an hour before it's scheduled.

First, we have to set up the code to actually receive reminders.

Getting ready

The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the Chapter7/Recipe1 folder

How to do it…

To start with, we're going to build a method to schedule reminders via text messages. We'll build a web app that will let us send a message with a time and save the reminder for later.

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

2. Upload the Services/ folder to your website.

3. Upload sql.sql to your database.

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

   <?php
     session_start();
     $accountsid = ''; //YOUR TWILIO ACCOUNT SID
     $authtoken = ''; //YOUR TWILIO AUTH TOKEN
     $fromNumber = ''; //	PHONE NUMBER CALLS WILL COME FROM
   
     $dbhost = ''; //YOUR DATABASE HOST
     $dbname = ''; //YOUR DATABASE NAME
     $dbuser = ...