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Twilio Cookbook: Second Edition

You're reading from   Twilio Cookbook: Second Edition Over 70 easy-to-follow recipes, from exploring the key features of Twilio to building advanced telephony apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783550654
Length 334 pages
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Twilio Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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 11. Sending and Receiving Picture Messages 12. Call Queuing 13. Working with Twilio Client Index

Building a survey tree


The survey builder performs three functions: it shows you the stats on sent surveys, lets you send unsent surveys, and lets you build your new surveys.

Surveys in this system are simple: one question and six possible answers.

Each answer will be assigned a number of 1 to 6.

Getting ready

The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the Chapter3/ folder.

How to do it...

We've got subscribers but we need to send them what they've subscribed to. This recipe will set up our survey builder. We'll also build a home page as part of our builder, where we can choose to send surveys or view results.

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

  2. Upload the Services/ folder to your website.

  3. Create a file on your website and name it survey-builder.php. The file will have the following content:

    <?php
    include("config.php");
    include("pdo.class.php");
    include 'Services/Twilio.php';
    switch($_GET['action'] ){
      case...
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