Networking is a skill that everyone needs, especially if you are an entrepreneur or plan on being one. A strong professional connection can help take your business to the next level. Those connections can provide solutions to the complex problems you’re facing, expand your customer base, and much more. Even if you’re not an entrepreneur, networking is a proven method to career and economic advancement.

The easiest way to create this connection is by attending local events in your city and interacting with people physically. I can’t count the number of times I have googled the keywords “events near me” only to see a lot of irrelevant results, not to mention the noise of ads. The events that are relevant are either in a faraway city or in another country altogether.

In this tutorial, we are going to implement a simple app that sends daily SMS notifications of events happening …

Ever had one of those mornings when you woke up unmotivated, but read a quote and the energy returned? That is the power of positive and motivational quotes.

Motivational quotes have a way of making people feel inspired and energized. This phenomenon can be attributed to a combination of factors such as motivational psychology, wordsmithing, and self-selection.

In this tutorial, I am going to teach you how to create an app that automatically sends you motivational quotes every morning. Before we start, here is a motivational quote to uplift you as you follow along.

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

Getting Started

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following:

• Twilio Account
• SendGrid Account
• PHP version 7+
• Composer globally installed

Create a New …

According to Domain Name Industry Brief a report by VeriSign,a global leader in domain names and Internet security, there were approximately 342.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs)  by the third quarter of 2018, an increase of approximately 2.6 million compared to the second quarter of 2018. This means approximately 28000 domain names were registered per day, and recent projections show the numbers are expected to rise even further in 2019. The stakeholders in this sector, therefore, have to implement a number of systems to manage and automate the huge number of tasks and business processes involved. Domain name sellers, resellers, domain name managers and even individual users need to get domain name related notifications in a timely and reliable manner to efficiently manage their domains.

In this tutorial, we are going to discuss how to send domain name renewal and expiry notifications in Vanilla PHP using …

There are a number of ways to record calls with Twilio. Whichever method you decide to use, it is very important to keep the storage space used below the chargeable limit to prevent added cost. To achieve this, you need to backup up and delete your voice recording occasionally. Storage over 10,000 minutes per project is billed by the minute, once a month.

In this tutorial, we are going to discuss how to automate recordings management with recording status callback, download recordings programmatically via the REST API, save the recordings in Dropbox and finally delete the recordings programmatically via the REST API.

Prerequisites

You will need the following technologies and tools:

• Twilio Account
• Dropbox account
• Composer globally installed
• Ngrok
• PHP development environment Laravel

To follow along, you should have a basic understanding of PHP. Knowledge of the Laravel framework is not required. You can choose to use any other …

Having a task manager is very crucial for any company or team. It ensures that tasks are kept in one place with priority given to the most important tasks while also improving team collaboration. Asana is one of the best online task managers in the market due to its ease of use in managing teams, projects, and daily tasks online.

However, with our “on-the-go” lives, it’s possible for a situation to arise that requires us to create tasks without access to either the Asana web or mobile app. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to create tasks in Asana using Twilio SMS and Laravel when an internet connection isn’t available.

Prerequisites

To complete this tutorial, you will need:

• A Twilio account
• Asana account 
• Composer globally installed
• Ngrok
• PHP development environment

Set Up PHP Development Environment

If you don't have one already, you’ll need to install a fresh Laravel application. …

Introduction

Currently, the only way to get Asana project notifications is either by email or from within their app. With limited push notification support, your team members are likely to get overrun by email alerts sent and miss important project updates. Any developer or project manager knows that missed notifications can result in missed deadlines which turns into broken confidence of clients. Therefore, it is important to figure out alternative ways of sending out important notifications.

In this tutorial, we are going to discuss how to send SMS notifications to project members when an Asana task is created, completed or comment on.

Requirements

• Twilio account
• Asana account
• Automate.io account
• Composer globally installed
• Ngrok
• PHP development environment with Laravel

Set Up Laravel Project

If you don't have one already installed, you’ll need to install a fresh Laravel application. A guide on how to set up Laravel can be found in …

Introduction

As a business entity, you will always get SMS from customers seeking support, giving you feedback, filing complaints or even sending compliments. Because notifications can become overwhelming, it helps to consolidate all the SMS in one central place for easier reference.

In this tutorial, we will automatically forward SMS sent to a Twilio number to a slack channel using a webhook implemented in Laravel.

Requirements

• PHP environment
• Twilio account
• Slack account
• Ngrok
• Composer globally installed

Set Up a New Laravel Project

If you don't have one already set up, we’ll need to install a fresh Laravel application. A guide on how to set up Laravel can be found in the official Laravel documentation.

We also need to install the Twilio SDK for PHP in our project. In your terminal, navigate to the project directory and run the following command:

Getting started with Slack …

In today’s competitive world, the success or failure of a business is greatly tied to the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) used. The key objective of a CRM is to integrate and automate sales, marketing, and customer support. This is where Twilio Programmable Voice comes in handy. With Twilio Programmable Voice calls, you can improve the customer experience by automatically making calls to customers for key business tasks such as confirming their orders and informing them of new products.

By the end of this tutorial, we are going to learn how to generate TwiML that can handle incoming and outbound calls. The complete code for the tutorial can be found on Github.

Tutorial Requirements

For this tutorial, you will need:

• A Twilio Account
• A Yii2 basic application
• Composer installed globally
• Ngrok (optional)

Setup the Yii2 In Your Local Environment         

We will first need to set up a Yii2 basic application. Yii2 …