SMS and MMS Notifications with PHP

Today we're going to get your server to automatically sound the (textual) alarm when something goes wrong. Using PHP and Laravel, we'll light up the phones of all of your server administrators when your code raises an exception.

Clone the application and head to the application's README to see how to run the app locally.

EMCがいかにしてTwilio SMSを使用して68,000人の従業員にITアラートを送信しているか見てみましょう。

はじめましょう！

Click the button below to start the journey.

List Your Server Administrators - And Other Lucky Folks

Here we create a list of people who should be notified if a server error occurs.

唯一必要なデータは、各管理者の phone_number です。

Next up, we'll see how to set up the Twilio client.

Configure the Twilio Client

To send a message, we'll need to create a Twilio REST client, which requires reading our TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID, TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN and a TWILIO_NUMBER from environmental variables. TWILIO_NUMBER needs not be a real number. It can be any number of your choosing and is mainly used to populate the To field in the outgoing message.

The values for your account SID and Auth Token come from the Twilio console:

Next let's see how to handle application exceptions.

Handle Application Exceptions

Each time an exception is raised anywhere in a Laravel application an TwilioExceptionHandler will handle it. (Appropriate name!)

This is where we hook our SMS sending code. It's important to call parent so the framework can do its regular error handling as well.

Next up let's see how to create a custom message.

カスタムなアラートメッセージを作成する

ここでは、テキストメッセージを介して送信されるアラートメッセージを作成します。

You might also decide to include a picture with your alert message... perhaps a screenshot of the application when the crash happened? A meme image to calm everyone down?

Let's now take a look at how to load the list of administrators.

Read the Administrators from the JSON File

We read the lucky people from our JSON file and send alert messages to each of them with the private send_message method.

Now let's look at how to send a text message.

SMSを送信

There are three parameters needed to send an SMS using the Twilio REST API: From, To, and Body.

After the message is sent, we print out the phone number we're texting. US and Canadian phone numbers can also send an image with the message. (Other countries will have a shortened URL appended pointing to the image.)

これで以上です！

We've just implemented an automated server notification system that can push out server alerts if (ahem, when) anything goes wrong. Now let's look at some other great features you might like to add.

次はどこでしょうか?

PHP and Twilio - such a great combination. Here are just two other excellent tutorials for you to try out:

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