In this tutorial, you will learn how to secure your Laravel application with Two-factor authentication using Twilio Authy.

Prerequisites

Completing this tutorial will require the following:

• Basic knowledge of Laravel
• Laravel Installed on your local machine
• Composer globally installed
• Twilio Account

Getting Started

Create a new Laravel project using the Laravel Installer. If you don’t have it installed or prefer to use Composer, you can check out how to do so from the Laravel documentation. Run the following command in your terminal to generate a fresh Laravel project:

Next, you will need to set up a database for the application. For this tutorial, we will make use of MySQL database. If you make use of a database administrator like phpMyAdmin for managing your databases then go ahead and create a database named twilio-authy and skip this section. If not, install MySQL from …

In this tutorial, we will look at how to verify phone numbers using Twilio Verify by building a simple authentication system in Laravel.

Twilio Verify makes it easier and safer than custom verification systems to verify a user’s phone number. It ensures that the phone number is valid by sending a short code via SMS to the number during registration. This can help reduce the number of fake accounts created and failure rates when sending SMS notifications to users.

Prerequisite

In order to follow this tutorial, you will need:

• Basic knowledge of Laravel
• Laravel Installed on your local machine
• Composer globally installed
• Twilio Account

Getting started

Create a new Laravel project using the Laravel Installer. If you don’t have it installed or prefer to use Composer, you can check how to do so from the Laravel documentation. Run this command in your console window to generate a …

In our day to day activities, we might get too busy for seemingly simple tasks. Too busy to drop a message, check up on loved ones or to remember an appointment. You could solve this by setting alarms right? But what if there was a more efficient way for reminders to send a message to your loved one, or request your lunch at a set time without you having to do it?

In this tutorial, we will learn how to use Twilio’s Programmable SMS to create an SMS reminder system with Laravel. At the end of this tutorial, you would have developed a custom SMS reminder system that alerts your users at a specific time via SMS.

Prerequisites

In order to follow this tutorial, you will need the following:

• Composer installed on your local machine.
• MySQL setup on your local machine.
• Basic knowledge of the Laravel Framework.
• A Twilio …

Getting started with Twilio-sync using Laravel

In your time as a developer, you might find (or have found) yourself needing an easier and faster way to synchronize a user’s data across multiple devices. One way to do this would be to have a single source of state for your data, ideally in the cloud. Twilio provides a great service which can be used to manage and synchronize data in real-time across multiple devices and platforms called Twilio Sync.

In this tutorial we will take a look at how to make use of Twilio Sync as a data store by building a To-Do application using Laravel and Angular.

Prerequisite

In order to follow this tutorial, you will need:

• Basic knowledge of Laravel
• Laravel Installed on your local machine
• Composer globally installed
• Twilio Account

Getting started

In this tutorial, we will look at how to take advantage of Twilio Sync to …

In this tutorial, we will teach you how to use Twilio’s Programmable SMS to create an SMS based product verification application using Laravel. After we’re finished, you will have developed a custom SMS verification system that allows your users to check the authenticity of a product via SMS.

Prerequisites

In order to follow this tutorial, you will need:

• Basic knowledge of Laravel
• Laravel Installed on your local machine
• Composer globally installed
• MySQL setup on your local machine
• Twilio Account

Getting Started

We will start off by creating a new Laravel project. This can be done either using the Laravel installer or Composer. We will be making use of the Laravel installer in this tutorial. If you don’t have it installed, you can check how to set it up from the Laravel documentation. To generate a fresh Laravel project, let’s run the laravel command on our terminal:

At some point in your application workflow, you may need to pass important information to your users. Thanks to the advancement in web technologies, this can easily be done with push notifications. However, most of these services require your users to have an internet connection and unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. Luckily, we can overcome this by using a notification system that does not rely on the internet.

In this tutorial, we will teach you how to use Twilio’s Programmable SMS to create an SMS notification portal using Laravel. After we’re finished, you would have developed a custom SMS notification portal that allows you to notify your users via a dashboard with SMS.

Prerequisite 

In order to follow this tutorial, you will need:

• Basic knowledge of Laravel
• Laravel Installed on your local machine
• Composer globally installed
• MySQL setup on your local machine
• Twilio Account 

Setup Project

Firstly, we need …