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Twilio Sync provides you with a set of intuitive APIs that let you synchronize application state across mobile apps and websites in real-time. Some example use cases are:
- Real-time dashboard charts
- Broadcast notifications to users in real-time
- Real-time collaboration software such as Google Docs
In this tutorial, we’ll build a dashboard that displays certain information in real-time whenever a call is placed to your Twilio phone number with Laravel.
Prerequisites
To complete this tutorial, you will need the following:
- A free Twilio account and a Twilio phone number. If you use this link to register, you will receive $10 credit when you upgrade to a paid account
- PHP version 7.4 or higher (ideally version 8)
- Laravel 8
- Composer
- ngrok. This will make the development version of our application accessible over the Internet.
Create a Laravel application
There are multiple ways to set up a new Laravel project. For …
Pest is a new testing PHP Framework developed by Nuno Maduro. While Pest itself is built on top of PHPUnit, the popular and widely adopted PHP testing framework, Pest aims to provide a better experience for writing tests. The philosophy is simple. Keep the TDD experience simple and elegant by providing expressive interfaces.
In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to get started using Pest in a Laravel project. Using the test-driven approach, we’ll be building a simple to-do application that allows you to create, edit, update and delete tasks.
Technical Requirements
- PHP version 7.3 or higher. Pest requires PHP 7.3+ to work.
- Laravel 8.
- Composer.
- A basic understanding of PHPUnit.
- A basic understanding of SQLite. We’ll be making use of SQLite because it makes running our tests faster.
Set up Laravel
There are different ways to set up a new Laravel project. You can …
Twilio Sync provides you with a set of intuitive APIs that allow you to synchronize application state across mobile apps and websites in real-time. Some example use cases where you can make use of Twilio Sync within your application include:
- Real-time Dashboard Charts
- Broadcasting notifications to users in real-time
- Real-time Collaboration Software such as Google Docs.
In this tutorial, we’ll use Python and the Flask framework to build a dashboard that displays SMS messages in real-time as they are sent to your Twilio phone number.
Technical requirements
To follow along, you’ll need the following:
- A free Twilio account and a Twilio phone number. If you use this link to register, you will receive $10 credit when you upgrade to a paid account.
- Python 3.6 or newer
- Ngrok. This will make the development version of our application accessible over the Internet.
Creating a Python environment
Let’s create a directory …
Gumroad is a simple ecommerce tool that allows creators to sell digital products such as films, courses, e-books etc. Gumroad provides Ping, which is an alert in the form of an HTTP POST request that notifies you in real time whenever a product has been purchased.
In this tutorial we’ll build a Flask application that automatically sends you SMS notifications whenever there is a sale of one of your products on Gumroad.
Technical requirements
To follow along, you’ll need the following:
- A free Twilio account and a Twilio phone number. If you use this link to register, you will receive $10 credit when you upgrade to a paid account.
- Python 3.6 or newer
- Ngrok. This will make the development version of our application accessible over the Internet.
- A Gumroad Account.
- A Heroku Account
- A mobile phone with SMS support
Creating a Python environment
Let’s create a …
Chalice is a Python Framework for writing, building and deploying serverless applications. It was built and is currently maintained by the team at AWS. Using familiar decorator-based syntax that is common within popular Python frameworks such as Flask, FastAPI, etc, Chalice is easy to get started with. In this tutorial, we’ll see how to deploy a Chalice application that integrates with the Twilio Verify Service to AWS Lambda.
The application that we’ll build exposes a set of API endpoints to send verification codes to phone numbers via SMS, and then verifying them once the user receives them and sends them back. This is useful in scenarios where you would like to add phone number verification or two-factor authentication to your application.
Technical requirements
To follow along, you’ll need the following:
- An AWS account. If you don’t have one, you can sign up here to enjoy a generous allowance during …
In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to record outbound voice calls via the Twilio Programmable Voice API as well as uploading the recordings to Dropbox using the Dropbox API. So basically, person #1 would call your Twilio number, ask to call a person #2 by entering their phone number, and then the call between person #1 and person #2 would be recorded and sent to Dropbox.
Technical requirements
To follow along, you’ll need the following:
- A free Twilio Account. If you use this link to register, you will receive $10 credit when you upgrade to a paid account.
- Python Development Environment
- Ngrok. This will make the development version of our application accessible over the Internet.
- A free Dropbox Account.
Creating a Python environment
Let’s create a directory where our project will reside. From the terminal, run the following command:
$ mkdir twilio_outbound_dropbox
Next, cd into …
There are different scenarios within your applications where you would like to send reminders. For example, maybe you would like to send appointment reminders to your users or happy birthday wishes, this tutorial can serve as a great starting point for that. In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how we can build an SMS Reminder Service using Python and Twilio.
Technical Requirements
To follow along, you’ll need the following:
- A free Twilio account. If you use this link to register, you will receive $10 credit when you upgrade to a paid account.
- Python 3.6 or newer.
- A free PythonAnywhere account.
- A phone line that can receive SMS messages.
Creating a Python environment
Let’s create a directory where our project will reside. From the terminal, run the following command:
$ mkdir twilio_sms_reminders
Next, cd into the project directory and run the following command to create a virtual environment. …
In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to keep track of Incoming SMS messages sent to your Twilio Phone Number on Airtable. Everytime your Twilio phone number receives an SMS message, we’ll forward the content of the message and some other important information about the message to a table in Airtable.
Technical Requirements
You will need the following to complete this tutorial:
- PHP version 7.2.5 or Higher
- Laravel 7
- Composer globally installed
- Twilio Account
- Airtable Account
- Ngrok
Setting up Laravel
There are different ways to set up a new Laravel project. You can do so via the Laravel installer or by using Composer. For the sake of this tutorial, we’ll be using Composer.
Run the following command in your terminal:
$ composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel twilio-airtable
This will set up a new Laravel project for us in the twilio-airtable directory.
Next, we’ll be installing a Laravel package that …
In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to build a simple WhatsApp chatbot that handles the conversion of any given number of Bitcoin units to the equivalent in a preferred currency. The bot will be built using Twilio API for WhatsApp and the Flask Framework for Python.
Technical requirements
To follow along, you’ll need the following:
- A free Twilio Account. If you use this link to register, you will receive $10 credit when you upgrade to a paid account.
- Python 3.6 or newer
- Ngrok. This will make the development version of our application accessible over the Internet.
- A smartphone with an active number and WhatsApp installed.
Creating a Python environment
Let’s create a directory where our project will reside. From the terminal, run the following command:
$ mkdir twilio_whatsapp_bot
Next, cd into the project directory and run the following command to create a virtual environment.
$ python …
Over the years, we’ve seen a steady increase in the number of bots and chatbots available to us over different platforms. Brands make use of bots as an exciting way to engage customers, while also providing a way to automate what could normally be considered, monotonous conversations. With it’s over 1.5 billion users and growing, and familiar chat technology, WhatsApp presents a strong case for building a chatbot on it’s platform.
In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how we can build a WhatsApp Currency Conversion Bot for converting multiple currencies using the Twilio API for WhatsApp.
Technical Requirements
You will need the following to complete this tutorial:
- PHP version 7.2.5 or Higher
- Laravel 7
- Composer
- Twilio Account
- An API Key From Currency Converter
- Ngrok
Setting up Laravel
There are different ways to set up a new Laravel project. You can do so via the Laravel installer or by …