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Twilio Best Practices

You're reading from   Twilio Best Practices Learn how to build powerful real-time voice and SMS applications with Twilio

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782175896
Length 178 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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The conference calling tool

Secondly, we're going to build a simple conference calling tool, which is suitable for any small business or organization. Ours will be virtually free to run, requiring just a little Twilio credit and somewhere to host our PHP, and it will support great features such as call recording.

There are three components to this tool:

  • A simple website with a Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) interface to manage our conference calls.
  • TwiML to handle incoming calls and dial them in to the correct conference.
  • An endpoint to listen for Twilio's callback with the URL of a recording of our conference.

Let's get started.

Preparing the project

We'll need to get our dependencies set up, and then we'll be ready to start writing some real code.

This time around, we're going to work with a PHP framework called Laravel (http://laravel.com). Laravel is a PHP framework for web artisans, which moves us away from individual PHP files for each page (like we&apos...

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