SMS Notifications Are Not Working on Laravel 5.5

[Muhammad Hassan]

I am trying to use the release 2.0.6 with a laravel 5.5 app I get no exceptions but the SMS was not sent

service.php

'twilio' => [
    'auth_token' => env('TWILIO_TOKEN'),
    'account_sid' => env('TWILIO_SID'),
    'from' => env('TWILIO_NUMBER')
]

Notification Class

namespace App\Notifications;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
use NotificationChannels\Twilio\TwilioChannel;
use NotificationChannels\Twilio\TwilioSmsMessage;

class ReservationMade extends Notification Implements
{
    /**
     * Create a new notification instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {

    }

    /**
     * Get the notification's delivery channels.
     *
     * @param  mixed  $notifiable
     * @return array
     */
    public function via($notifiable)
    {
        return [TwilioChannel::class];
    }

    public function toTwilio($notifiable)
    {
        return (new TwilioSmsMessage())
                    ->content('bla');
    }
}

In User.php

public function routeNotificationForTwilio()
{
    return $this->phone;
}

[lancemitchell]

I struggled with this too. The issue is that this "Twilio notifications channel" under "vendor/laravel-notification-channels/twilio" uses the Twillio SDK under "vendor/twilio/sdk/Twilio/" for API call transport. The SDK is maintained by a separate team and unfortunately it does not throw Laravel exceptions.

Here is what I had to do to work around the issue:

Quick workaround: Edit the Rest Client Class to report to your storage/logs/laravel.log on the request / response to Twilio API endpoint.

• Edit vendor/twilio/sdk/Twilio/Rest/Client.php, and update the request() method and change
  return $this->getHttpClient()->request(
  $method,
  $uri,
  $params,
  $data,
  $headers,
  $username,
  $password,
  $timeout
  );
  TO
  info(print_r("method=$method", 1));
  info(print_r("uri=$uri", 1));
  info(print_r($data, 1));
  info(print_r($headers, 1));
  info(print_r("username=$username", 1));
  info(print_r("password=$password", 1));
  $result = $this->getHttpClient()->request(
  $method,
  $uri,
  $params,
  $data,
  $headers,
  $username,
  $password,
  $timeout
  );
  info(print_r($result, 1));
  return $result;

Longer-Term workaround: Use composer to override the default Rest\Client Class with your customized class that does some conditional reporting based upon a configuration in your .env file.
(1) Step 1. Create this folder and customized class in your Laravel App
app\MyVendor\twilio\Rest\Client.php
(2) Step 2. Update Composer.json to exclude this Class namespace
"autoload": {
"exclude-from-classmap": [
"vendor/twilio/sdk/Twilio/Rest/Client.php"
]
},

(3) Step 3. Tell composer where to find your custom class using psr-4
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"App\": "app/",
"Twilio\": "app/MyVendor/twilio/"
},
},
(4) Step 4: Refresh composer
composer dump-autoload
(5) Step 5. Execute your code and observe logs for the call response from Twillio
(6) Step 6. Grab a coffee

[Muhammad Hassan]

@lancemitchell Thank you for your reply, the solution you suggested worked and I can get the request options now.

I found that the request is made to this endpoint https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/{account_sid}/Messages.json

which retrieves all the messages sent by my account!

[James Graham]

@lancemitchell which kind of exceptions are failing to capture?

You mention

it does not throw Laravel exceptions

but what would they be? Can we capture the Twilio Exception and re-throw them with Laravel Notification compatible ones?

[Set Kyar Wa Lar (Universe)]

On laravel 5.6 as well. Does not work out sending the sms.

[Florian Wartner]

Should be fixed.

[ahamba solomon]

Doesn't work in laravel 9

[Diego Caprioli]

I can confirm that is not working for me neither in Laravel 9.38.0 (with laravel-notification-channels/twilio 3.2.0 and twilio/sdk 6.43.1) . No exceptions, but the SMS is not sent. Nothing on my Twilio logs neither (as if it never reached Twilio).