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HowTo's and Example Code
Basic Functionality
Click to Call
Click-to-call enables your company to convert web traffic into direct telephony communication with just the click of a button. Twilio makes it easy to implement and integrate click-to-call directly into your web application...Read More
Phone Menu
Any small business knows the importance of having an automated phone menu system. Any small business also knows the pains of operating a PBX, especially when only a few menu items are necessary. Twilio makes it easy to create an automated phone menu system...Read More
Weather By Phone
Weather By Phone lets you check the weather in your area by phone. Twilio answers the call, the application asks the caller for their US zipcode, the application looks up the weather using a remote web service and reads the weather to the caller. This demo is written in Python using Google App Engine...Read More
Appointment Reminder
Appointment reminder is an outgoing application that calls your phone and gives you an automated reminder with a simple phone tree. You enter your number in a webpage, Twilio initiates an outgoing call to that number and reads the appointment details. This demo is written in Ruby using the Ruby on Rails Framework...Read More
Voicemail Transcription
Voicemail Transcription shows how to use Twilio's speech-to-text transcription API to automatically record and convert voicemail message to text. This demo is written in PHP...Read More
Simple Conferencing
Simple Conferencing shows how to use Twilio's conference functionality to build a simple conference room. This demo uses static TwiML and is applicable to all languages...Read More
SMS Notifications
SMS Notifications shows how to use Twilio's REST API to send out SMS messages. This demo is written in PHP...Read More
Advanced Functionality
Call Screening
Many times a voice application will have a list of numbers to call in a specific order. If the first number doesn't pick up, then a second number should be called, and so on. However, if a number goes to voicemail, how should the application respond? Our solution is to prompt the called number to accept the call. If no answer is received, we move on to the next phone number...Read More
Voicemail
Voicemail is a telephony application with which everyone is familiar. Twilio makes building a voicemail system simple, and makes integrating it with the web or other messaging technologies just as straight forward. This recipe will describe the building of a simple voicemail box application...Read More
Company Directory
Most company phone systems have the idea of "extensions", an addition to the companies public phone number that lets you connect to one of many company phones that sit behind that phone number...Read More
Voice Broadcast
Voice broadcast connects users to their audiences. Broadcast recorded messages instantly and easily. All it takes is a call...Read More
Call Queue
Call Queue shows how to use Twilio's REST call redirection feature to manage a simple call queue...Read More
Phone Poll
Phone Poll shows you how to setup a simple polling system that allows you to ask your friends a question, get their input and then store it in a MySQL database. This tutorial requires a knowledge of both PHP and MySQL, as well as access to a server that allows you to create a MySQL database...Read More
Moderated Conference
The Moderated Conference how to shows you how to use Twilio's conferencing features to build a business conference application with more fine grained controls on how participants can behave in the conference...Read More
Send an SMS From a Call
Sending text messages during a phone call is a useful way to give users content for offline reference, or even confirm an sms subscription. In this demonstration, we are going to describe how to build an application that can initiate an SMS message from a phone call. Read More