How can I add and Send SMS to number dynamically by PHP code.
I have add number from admin panel and send SMS to this static number. It works, but if I want to add number from HTML form. So how can I register number dynamically by PHP code.
$message = $client->messages->create(
'+919711969920', // Text this number
array(
'from' => '(205) 358-4782', // From a valid Twilio number
'body' => "Hello Sudhir"
)
);
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You can absolutely take input from an HTML form. Rather than hard coding the number into your PHP you would need to retrieve the number you want to send the message to from the incoming request parameters.
You could do this with:
$message = $client->messages->create(
$_REQUEST["to"],
array(
'from' => '(205) 358-4782', // From a valid Twilio number
'body' => "Hello Sudhir"
)
);
Make sure your form then has an input field with the name "to" and when you submit the form you will be able to get the parameter from the request with the code above.
<input type="tel" name="to" id="to" />
Let me know if that helps at all.
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am finding it difficult to send an sms to a Philippines number using the example from the Twilio SMS PHP Quickstart documentation...
here's my code
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use Twilio\Rest\Client;
$account_sid = 'XXXXXXXXXXXX'; /////my account_sid
$auth_token = 'XXXXXXXXXX'; ////my auth_token
$client = new Client($account_sid, $auth_token);
$twilio_number = "+XXXXXXXXXXX";////// my twilio_number
$number = "XXXXXXXXXX"; /////Philippines number 12 digits
$client->messages->create(
// Where to send a text message (your cell phone?)
'+'.$number,
array(
'from' => $twilio_number,
'body' => 'My Twilio Message'
)
);
echo json_encode('done');
it works with other countries like the US, Canada etc. At least I've tried those and they work. Anybody with an idea please ?
After contacting Twilio support, they helped me realize that I had not enabled geo permission to send SMS towards these countries, rookie mistake ...
Any one having this issue, you can click here to enable this setting.
In a case i have to send SMS with two whitespaces at the beginning of the message content as like below
setparam 3003:70eac;
This is for some device configuration. But while receiving the SMS it is
setparam 3003:70eac;
The whitespaces are gone.
This is how i send the SMS with php helper library
$client = new Client($account_sid, $auth_token);
$client->messages->create(
'<to_number>',
array(
'from' => '<from_number>',
'body' => ' setparam 3003:70eac;'
)
);
I had also tried by sending as encoded like below
%20%20setparam%203003%3A70eac%3B
This results without parsing
%20%20setparam%203003%3A70eac%3B
Any help will be great support to me.
We couldn't use whitspaces normaly while sending SMS in Twilio or Plivo, as those were trimmed automatically. But can be send by escaping the unicode value of whitspace in the message.
Examples:
Python
from twilio.rest import Client
# Your Account SID from twilio.com/console
account_sid = "<twilio_sid>"
# Your Auth Token from twilio.com/console
auth_token = "<twilio_token>"
client = Client(account_sid, auth_token)
message = client.messages.create(
to="<to_number>",
from_="<from_number>",
body="\U00002001\U00002001Whitspace at front")
print(message.sid)
JSON
{
"src" : "<from_number>",
"dst" : "<to_number>",
"text" : "\u0020\u0020Whitspace at front",
"type" : "sms",
"method" : "POST"
}
PHP
<?php
// Required if your environment does not handle autoloading
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
// Use the REST API Client to make requests to the Twilio REST API
use Twilio\Rest\Client;
// Your Account SID and Auth Token from twilio.com/console
$sid = 'ACfe1c3f0e87c51710e95e842f2e71922b';
$token = 'your_auth_token';
$client = new Client($sid, $token);
// Use the client to do fun stuff like send text messages!
$client->messages->create(
// the number you'd like to send the message to
'+15558675309',
array(
// A Twilio phone number you purchased at twilio.com/console
'from' => '+15017250604',
// the body of the text message you'd like to send
'body' => "\020\020Whitspace at front"
)
);
You can see the message body is denoted with double quotes(") . That is important in PHP. Denoting with single quote(') won't work. The different quote usages in PHP and Double quoted strings.
More reference links for PHP.
String Functions
Converting to and from ASCII
Result:
' Whitspace at front'
In twilio you will have to use Unicode 'Punctuation Space' which is '\2008'. '\0020' wont work.
I have integrated Twilio and it works fine. Now I want to capture all the intermediate message statuses. I referred to Sending Messages.
My code looks like -
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
// Use the REST API Client to make requests to the Twilio REST API
use Twilio\Rest\Client;
// Your Account SID and Auth Token from twilio.com/console
$sid = '****************';
$token = '*****************';
$client = new Client($sid, $token);
// send message
$message = $client->messages->create(
// the number you'd like to send the message to
'+1xxxxxxxxx',
array(
'from' => '+1xxxxxxxx',
'body' => 'Test web hook message '.date('h:i'),
'statusCallback' => "https://xxxxxx/xxxx.php",
)
);
But the output/response returned to statusCallback is different as -
"{\"SmsSid\":\"SM72478c1ea61f467dbc33338123c0ad0\",\"SmsStatus\":\"sent\",\"MessageStatus\":\"sent\",\"To\":\"+1xxxxxxxx\",\"MessageSid\":\"SM72478c1ea612222dbc3b7858123c0ad0\",\"AccountSid\":\"ACb655a10c1c2222e4af158c5395d64beb\",\"From\":\"+1xxxxxxx\",\"ApiVersion\":\"2010-04-01\"}"
But I need the response as it is defined at Sending Messages
EDIT
If checked at Sending Messages, we can see the fields returned in the output are - account_sid, api_version, body, num_segments, num_media, date_created, date_sent, date_updated, direction, error_code, error_message, from, price, sid, status, to and uri.
But I receive fields as - SmsSid, SmsStatus, MessageStatus, To, MessageSid, AccountSid, From and ApiVersion.
For me, the fields - num_segments, date_sent, direction, error_code, error_message are important which I am not receiving. Do I need to use another API of TWILIO to retrieve this information ?
Why am I getting different response ?
Twilio developer evangelist here.
When you send a message and set a statusCallback URL the sending messages documentation says:
Twilio will POST the MessageSid along with the other standard request parameters as well as MessageStatus and ErrorCode.
The standard request parameters are:
MessageSid
SmsSid
AccountSid
MessagingServiceSid
From
To
Body
NumMedia
as well as some others specifically about media or geographic data based on the two numbers.
If you need to find out those other attributes of the message, you will need to look up the message using the REST API.
Let me know if that helps at all.
What does your code for your callback url script look like?
What you have is just an escaped JSON string, so to match what you see on the documentation you just have to do this:
$json = '{\"SmsSid\":\"SM72478c1ea61f467dbc33338123c0ad0\",\"SmsStatus\":\"sent\",\"MessageStatus\":\"sent\",\"To\":\"+1xxxxxxxx\",\"MessageSid\":\"SM72478c1ea612222dbc3b7858123c0ad0\",\"AccountSid\":\"ACb655a10c1c2222e4af158c5395d64beb\",\"From\":\"+1xxxxxxx\",\"ApiVersion\":\"2010-04-01\"}';
echo stripslashes($json);
We are attempting to create a workflow that will ultimately connect a lead from a contact form, with a business owner.
The workflow is as follows:
1) Lead fills in contact form
2) Using Stamplay integration with Unbounce, the lead receives a text asking them if they wanted to be contacted "Now", or "Later".
Let's go with lead says "Now"
3) Lead says "Now", which will access a webhook URL to decide on what to do next.
In this particular case, saying "Now", will trigger a TWIML bin to dial the business owner. If the business owner doesn't pick up/busy, then we send a text to the lead asking them to send a follow-up text with a 'name' and 'date/time'.
4) The lead replies with a text with this information, and then both the business owner and lead receive separate notifications about the appointment.
I have been able to successfully go through this whole workflow when a user directly dials the Twilio number (not programatically with keywords yet, which is where I need help).
When a call comes in -> TWIML bin
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Response>
<Pause length="4"/>
<Say>Please hold, while I connect your call.</Say>
<Pause length="4"/>
<Dial timeout="10"> business owner number </Dial>
<Pause length="4"/>
<Sms>I am currently unavailable. If you'd like me to get in touch, pls reply back with your name, and a time that would work best for you. Thanks, Adam</Sms>
</Response>
When a SMS is received -> webhook URL
<?php
// Require the bundled autoload file - the path may need to change
// based on where you downloaded and unzipped the SDK
require __DIR__ . '/twilio-php-master/Twilio/autoload.php';
// Use the REST API Client to make requests to the Twilio REST API
use Twilio\Rest\Client;
// Your Account SID and Auth Token from twilio.com/console
$sid = 'xyz';
$token = 'xyz';
$client = new Client($sid, $token);
$number = $_POST['From'];
$body = $_POST['Body'];
//Sends a message to the owner
$sms = $client->account->messages->create(
// Cell of owner
'12345',
array(
// A Twilio phone number you purchased at twilio.com/console
'from' => "78900",
// Lead's reply sent to owner asNotification
'body' => "Hi <name>. You have a new lead. The information for this lead is: $body. You can contact them at $number"
)
);
//Sends a message to the lead
$sms = $client->account->messages->create(
// Cell of Lead
$number,
array(
// A Twilio phone number you purchased at twilio.com/console
'from' => "78900",
// Notification Message sent to Lead
'body' => "This is a confirmation that I have received your information, and will be in contact with you soon. Thanks, <name>."
)
);
Where I am encountering issues is having the lead text "Now", to trigger a phone call between the business owner and lead.
This is the code that I have been attempting to use, except that I have been receiving 11200- HTTP retrieval failure non-stop. I have also attempted to use $client->account->calls->create, as that's what I used to successfully send messages.
// Read TwiML at this URL when a call connects (attempt to connect to owner)
$call = $client->calls->create(
'lead-number', // Call this number
'78900', // From a valid Twilio number
array(
'url' => TWIML Bin of Interest
)
);
Anyone have any idea what I could do?
Check out the example of creating a dynamic response:
<?php
// Get the PHP helper library from twilio.com/docs/php/install
require_once '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php'; // Loads the library
use Twilio\Twiml;
$response = new Twiml;
$body = $_REQUEST['Body'];
if( $body == 'hello' ){
$response->message('Hi!');
}else if( $body == 'bye' ){
$response->message('Goodbye');
}
print $response;
In your case you'll modify for if "now" is in the $body you can create the call which your code looks fine for.
$call = $client->calls->create(
"+1415XXXXXXX", "+1415XXXXXXX",
array("url" => "link_to_twiml_bin")
);
In regards to the 11200 HTTP retrieval error, take a look at the possible solutions here especially:
Make sure your web server allows HTTP POST requests to static
resources (if the URL refers to .xml or .html files)
I have a website that uses Twilio to allow people to use our temporary numbers to receive SMS messages received during verification processes etc. It is becomming more common that companies are switching to audio verification instead so I want to start recording all calls received and displaying them in the existing HTML table using the HTML5 <audio> tag.
Here is the existing code:
<tbody>
<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// Get the PHP helper library from twilio.com/docs/php/install
require_once('twilio/Services/Twilio.php'); // Loads the library
// Your Account Sid and Auth Token from twilio.com/user/account
$sid = "";
$token = "";
$client = new Services_Twilio($sid, $token);
$messages = $client->account->messages->getIterator(0, 50, array(
'To' => $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] // this is the number
));
foreach ($messages as $message) {
echo "<tr><td>" . $message->from . "</td><td>" . $message->date_sent . "</td><td>" . $message->body . "</td></tr>";
}
?>
</tbody>
</table>
How can I build in to that the recorded calls received? I want to keep it in date/time order within the eixsting SMS messages, if that makes sense.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You can absolutely record calls with Twilio.
When you create a call, you just need to include the parameter Record=true in the REST API request to create a call. Then, if you include a statusCallback parameter that points to a URL on your server, then you will receive a webhook to that URL when the call is complete that includes a link to the recording.
You can also fetch the latest recordings from the API. You can get recordings in wav or mp3 format, which you can then use in the HTML <audio> element.
I'm not sure how you have set up your date ordered SMS table, but hopefully this helps. Let me know if there is anything else I can help with.