Retrieving a list of upcoming reminders

Now we will learn how to retrieve a list of upcoming reminders. This will work by sending a text with the message showme; it will send us a list of pending reminders based on phone number.

We're going to build on the first listener.php file by changing the code inside the //actions and //end actions blocks.

Getting ready

The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the Chapter7/Recipe3 folder.

How to do it…

This recipe will extend listener.php to allow us to also return a list of upcoming 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...