Twilio Example Quote App

Wake up to a dose of inspirational quotes every morning using Sendgrid/Twilio SMS and Quote APIs

Inspiration

Major League Hacking

What it does

Shares Quote of the Day

How we built it

Twilio API, php, bootstrap, html, json

What we learned

Twilio credibility with API

What's next for Use the Twilio API

Introducing the topic and giving some background info.

Prerequisites

- Twilio Account
- Sendgrid Account
- Laravel
- Composer globally installed

Setting up a development environment

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

  • Install Laravel
  • Install Twilio SDK for PHP
  • Set Sendgrid environment
  • Purchasing an SMS enabled Twilio phone number

Creating a Quote API endpoint ( Forismatic and favqs APIs)

  • Use the two APIs Forismatic and Favqs to get quotes.

Sending Quote(s) through email using Sendgrid.

Sending SMS through Twilio SMS

Testing our App

DONE!

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