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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Now We're Cooking 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

Setting up a subaccount for each user


Before we can do anything else, we have to allow users to sign up.

To do this, we're going to build a joining form for users to join your PBX system. This form will also create their subaccount under your main Twilio account. Subaccounts make it easier to track a user's usage.

Getting ready

The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the Chapter9/Recipe2 folder in the source code for this book.

How to do it...

Now that we've set up our basic framework, let's build a form to allow users to sign up and have Twilio create subaccounts for them.

  1. Upload the following index.php file to your website:

    <?php
    include 'Services/Twilio.php';
    require("config.php");
    require("system/jolt.php");
    require("system/pdo.class.php");
    require("system/functions.php");
    
    $_GET['route'] = isset($_GET['route']) ? '/'.$_GET['route'] : '/';
    $app = new Jolt('site',false);
    $app->option('source', 'config.ini');
    #$pdo = Db::singleton();
    $mysiteURL = $app->option('site.url...
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