doxxon / Laratwilio

simple wrapper for sending sms messages via twilio with Laravel4

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Laratwilio

  • simple wrapper for sending sms messages via twilio with Laravel4.
  • calls or anything else other than sending sms messages is not currently supported (pull requests welcome)

Installation

  1. add the following to your composer require:

     "twilio/laratwilio": "dev-master"
    
  2. run from terminal:

     composer update
    
  3. add Laratwilio to the list of providers. In config/app.php add the following line to the providers array:

     'Twilio\Laratwilio\LaratwilioServiceProvider'
    
  4. add a Facade for more convenient usage. In config/app.php add the following line to the aliases array:

     'Sms' => 'Twilio\Laratwilio\Facades\Laratwilio'
    
  5. publish config files so that you can put your Twilio details in the right place. In your terminal:

     php artisan config:publish twilio/laratwilio
    
  6. edit the new config file in the config/packages/twilio/laratwilio and enter your data

Usage

Anywhere in your application when you need to send an sms message, just do:

Sms::send(array('to'=>'+12345678', 'text'=>'hello world'));

Disclaimer

This is my first package and I'm very new to all this.

Most likely I'm doing lots of things wrong. Use at your own risk.

If there is a better way of doing anything here - I'm looking forward to your pull requests.

May the force be with you.

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simple wrapper for sending sms messages via twilio with Laravel4