Ever wondered how platforms like Binance set price watchlists for different Bitcoin price alerts? If so, imagine getting a daily SMS alert whenever the price of Bitcoin changes.

This tutorial will teach you how to use Twilio Programmable SMS to send out live Bitcoin rates every day using your Laravel app. After we’re finished, you will be able to automatically send an SMS containing the conversion rate of Bitcoin to USD to your phone number, daily.

Installation Requirements

We will begin with a new Laravel project. Additionally, the following modules are required for proper functionality. These modules are:

• PHP 7.2+
• Composer
• Laravel
• Guzzle (Comes pre-installed with Laravel)
• A Twilio account
• CEX.io API

Having installed Laravel on your machine, proceed to create a new project using the Laravel CLI:

Or using the Composer create-project command:

Next, install Twilio’s PHP SDK to …

If the news and current statistics about remote work are any indicator of the future, it’s obvious that working from home is gradually becoming the new normal for employees all over the world, including numerous tech companies. While effective communication may be defined differently for various companies, one of the most promising ways to improve productivity and keep your team together involves using video conferencing or chat.

This tutorial will guide you on how to create a video conferencing chat application using Symfony, React.js, and Twilio Programmable Video. The video chat application will allow users to connect and participate in a predefined chat room.

Prerequisites

To participate in this tutorial, you will need the following:

• A Twilio Account
• Composer globally installed on your computer to manage dependencies
• Preferred basic knowledge of building applications with React and Symfony
• Node.js and Yarn package manager installed on your computer
• Symfony …

Whether we’re voting for our favorite candidate on shows such as X Factor, or receiving two-factor authentication codes to log in to services like MailChimp and GitLab, SMS are virtually ubiquitous in modern life. Not only do they make communication in life and work much easier, it also doesn’t take a lot of code to send them either.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a simplistic API that can send an SMS using PHP’s Mezzio framework and Twilio’s PHP SDK.

Once completed, you will be able to send a POST request to the API’s default endpoint, supplying the phone number to send the message to, and the message to send. If the message was successfully sent, then a JSON response will be returned showing a number of details about the sent SMS. If the SMS was not able to be sent, then an appropriate JSON response will …

Internet slang evolves so rapidly that it’s easy to get lost in communication while texting without the help of linguistic services like Urban Dictionary. Wouldn’t it be great if you could easily query new colloquialisms on the go?

In this tutorial, we will build a handy WhatsApp bot that gives us the Urban Dictionary definition of words. It will leverage the Twilio API for WhatsApp and the Urban Dictionary API to find and provide the definitions we need, on demand.

Prerequisites

In order to follow along with this tutorial, you will need the following:

• PHP (version 7.2 or higher to use the latest version of Bref)
• Composer, npm, and the Serverless CLI installed
• A Twilio Account
• ngrok installed (to use your local server as a webhook URL)

Get Started

If you are using a UNIX or Mac OS system, create and enter into the project folder …

The foremost issue when building solutions with third-party services is estimating the cost implications of consuming the API. This tutorial is a guide through the process of understanding the costs of Twilio’s phone number services using a Laravel application.

Installation Requirements

To begin with a Laravel project, all relevant modules required for proper functionality need to be installed. The modules are:

• PHP 7.2+
• Composer
• Laravel
• A Twilio account

Having installed Laravel on your machine, proceed to create a new project using the Laravel CLI:  

Or using the Composer create-project command:

Businesses across the internet interact with millions of customers every day. Providing customers with a positive experience helps to build a strong brand image and increases their trust. Reliable, fast, and helpful customer support is a key component of great customer service and it all starts by providing a convenient and simple way to get in touch. Just as crucial is the need to provide your customer support team with the tools they need to assist your customers.

In this tutorial, we’ll build an application that forwards incoming SMS in real-time and allows us to reply directly from a Slack channel using Twilio, Slack, and the Symfony framework.

In doing so, you’ll see the Symfony Notifier Component in action and understand how to leverage it’s abstraction to communicate between the customer and your support staff through different communication channels. Finally, we’ll look at how to react to incoming …

I recently had a dentist appointment. Two days before the appointment, I received a call from my dentist’s assistant, confirming if I was still available for the booking at the arranged time.

While that was nice, I thought there would be an easier way to do it. It would be nice if this process could be automated and have assistants handle more complicated situations. In this tutorial we are going to work on a PHP application that automates this process using Twilio Programmable Voice and Autopilot.

Tutorial Requirements

This tutorial will require the following:

• Global installation of Composer
• Global installation of Ngrok 
• Twilio Account
• Twilio number with voice capability
• Airtable Account …

By default, browsers implement a same-origin policy that prevents scripts from making HTTP requests across different domains. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS for short) provides a mechanism through which browsers and server-side applications can agree on requests that are allowed or restricted.

From version 7, the Laravel framework comes with first-party support for sending CORS headers using Middlewares. 

In this tutorial, we'll be building a simple Vue.js app powered by Laravel to learn about CORS. We will take a deep-dive into the various configuration options needed by Laravel to handle CORS OPTIONS requests and see how some of these options affect our application.

Prerequisites

In order to complete this tutorial, you will need the following:

• Familiarity with the Laravel framework
• An existing project with Laravel framework version >= 7.0.
• Vue CLI installed.

Getting Started  

Create a new folder to hold both the Laravel API and the Vue project, and create …

Often referred to as a platform or programming language agnostic query language, GraphQL is a comprehensive approach to guide software engineers in building data-driven applications. It is, in my opinion, the new API standard, offering client applications the flexibility to request exact data and not an entire record from the database. If you are not yet conversant with this technology or looking for simplified technical content to guide you through, you are in the right place.

In this tutorial, you will learn some of the fundamental concepts required to build a Laravel API powered by GraphQL. This is a shift from the conventional architecture of building REST APIs, as we will take a different approach in this tutorial. To help us explore GraphQL, we will build a bookstore API with an ability to carry out CRUD ( Create, Read, Update, Delete ) operations on data, in your database.

Prerequisites …