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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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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

Setting up a voicemail system


All companies need a voicemail system, from a small one-person company to a big 100-person company.

This voicemail system will be set up as one big mailbox that people can call into and leave a message. The message is then e-mailed to you along with a transcription of the message.

Getting ready

The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the Chapter2/Recipe4 folder.

How to do it...

Let's build a simple voicemail system that can serve as a mailbox for your company.

  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 config.php to your website and make sure the following variables are set:

    <?php
      $accountsid = '';  //  YOUR TWILIO ACCOUNT SID
      $authtoken = '';  //	  YOUR TWILIO AUTH TOKEN
      $fromNumber = '';  //  PHONE NUMBER CALLS WILL COME FROM
    ?>
  4. Create a file on your website called voicemail.php, with the following code:

    <?php
    include 'Services...
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