Roger Stringer - Twilio Cookbook

Roger Stringer has been a PHP developer since 2001 and has been working on projects of all sizes for companies all over the world. He has formed several start-ups over the years and most of them have been powered by Twilio to provide services.

When not working on the web, Roger can be found reading, cooking, and spending time with his daughter, Kaitlyn, at the local farmer's markets.

Roger is the founder of The Interviewer, a Twilio-powered startup, which makes interviewing more efficient by helping with scheduling, contact management, and conducting and recording interviews.

I'd like to thank my wife, Patsy, and our daughter, Kaitlyn, for having the patience to let me get this book written, as I spent many hours behind a computer typing.

Also, I wish to thank Rob and the Twilio crew for answering any questions that came up as I worked on the various topics covered.

I also want to thank Jason and the crew at Copter Labs and Gary and the VeriCorder team.

Zakir Hyder graduated in Computer Science from Southeast University and is pursuing his MS in Computer Science and Engineering from North South University in Bangladesh. He has been building websites and social networking apps since 1999. He has also been developing Facebook apps since 2007. He gave his talk at Facebook Developer Garage Dhaka. He has developed websites that were deeply integrated with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube APIs. He writes tests with RSpec, Cucumber, and Capybara with Selenium. He follows Agile methodologies of software development and is especially fond of scrum and standup.

Besides his full-time job, Zakir writes his blog at blog.jambura.com. You can follow him on Twitter @zakirhyder and on his LinkedIn profile at bd.linkedin.com/in/zakirhyder. He lives in Bangladesh with his wife, Fathema, and his son, Arham. Currently, he is a senior software engineer at somewherein Ltd. (http://www.somewherein.net/). He has also worked on Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal , Packt Publishing .

I would like to thank my wife for taking care of our three-month old boy while I reviewed the book. I'd also like to thank Sanchita Mandal for being patient with me.

Tim Rogers is a developer based in London, UK. Ever since he learned to work with Twilio while building a cloud phone support system for his employer, GoCardless (an online payments start-up) he has done freelance work on the platform for a number of SMEs and has spoken about his experiences at Twilio's TwilioCon Europe conference.

Prateek Sachdev grew up in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. He is a prefinal year student of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. He is pursuing his B.Tech. in Computer Science. His interests lie in Artificial Intelligence, computer networking, concurrency and parallelism, and operating systems. He is currently working on projects on Distributed Systems. He would like to work on books on Python and Algorithms.

When he isn't glued to a computer screen, he spends time playing the guitar and listening to music.

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Preface

Phones are everywhere! From calling to texting, you use phones for business and personal use. Twilio provides an API that lets you combine phone calls and SMS messages with your websites.

Twilio Cookbook Second Edition will get you on the fast track to learn how to use Twilio with PHP and MySQL to add phone services and SMS to your websites. You'll also quickly learn how to set up systems such as a company directory, PBX, voicemail system, and order-tracking system and how to set up two-factor authentication.

What this book covers

, Into the Frying Pan , covers what you need to know about adding two-factor authentication to a website to verify users, sets up a basic order-verification system, adds the Click-to-Call functionality to a website, records phone calls, sets up a company directory, and explains how to use Twilio Client for Text-to-Speech.

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