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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 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

Canceling an upcoming reminder


Reminders change and sometimes you have to cancel them ahead of time. This recipe will enable the system to handle that.

Getting ready

The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the Chapter7/Recipe4 folder.

How to do it…

Ok, now we're going to build support for deleting reminders.

  1. Download the 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 = '';//YOUR DATABASE USER
      $dbpass = '';//YOUR DATABASE PASS
    ?>
  5. Upload a file called listener.php with the help of the following code:

    <?php
    include('Services/Twilio...
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