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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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Roger Stringer Roger Stringer
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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

Introduction


One of the common requests I receive from clients is the option to send surveys via SMS. This chapter is based on the survey builders I've built for my clients.

Surveys are handy for seeing what features users want to build into a web app next, running contests, and generally gathering opinions.

In the first section, you'll have a way to let your users subscribe to your surveys. Then you'll build a survey builder that lets you view stats on sent surveys and also send new surveys. We'll include tracking here so that you can see what responses people send back and also give users the ability to unsubscribe from surveys.

Finally, we'll add some handy charting so that we can view the survey results on a nice chart.

This chapter will involve some SQL; you can find the sql file in the Chapter3/ folder.

We're also going to use a class to use PHP's PDO library for database handling. This file is called pdo.class.php and can be found in the Chapter3/ folder.

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