Getting Started with Twilio

Getting Started with Twilio

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  Introduction to Twilio Michael Kimsal, WebDev Publishing
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  FAT PENGUIN
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  Introduction to me:) • Web development since 1996 • Mostly PHP, with some ASP, Perl and Groovy over the years • Publisher of GroovyMag and JSMag • Host of webdevradio.com podcast
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  What is Twilio? •Phone service in the sky • Akin to a hosted Asterisk • No hardware costs - pay as you go • SMS,Voice calls, Automatic translations • Built on the Amazon cloud
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  What can Twiliodo? • Phone recordings • Conference calls • Phone polls and voting • Custom phone trees
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  What can’t Twiliodo? • Voice recognition • No way to deal with “say yes” type apps • Establish numbers outside US • Can *call* outside US • Probably other things I haven’t hit yet :)
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  OpenVBX • Recently announcedopenvbx.org, a turnkey open source PHP framework for managing a phone system • Mixed reaction - seen as competing with developer community a bit
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  How does itwork? • register for account • $30 sandbox credit • sandbox dial in number • uses acct-specific PIN code (only for sandbox number)
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  How does itwork? • Map incoming number to URL • Twilio server makes requests to your URL • Your server app responds with TwiML, XML for Twilio
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  Account Dashboard
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  Connect # toURL
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  Twilio POST toyou... $_POST[‘CallGuid’] $_POST[‘Caller’] $_POST[‘Called’] $_POST[‘CallStatus’] $_POST[‘CallerCity’] and more... http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/2008-08-01/twiml/twilio_request
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  You send backTwiML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <Response> <Say>Hello World</Say> <Play> http://api.twilio.com/Cowbell.mp3 </Play> </Response>
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  Twilio Verbs <Gather> <Play> <Dial> <Conference> <Record> <Redirect> <Redirect> <Hangup> <Sms>
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  Let’s look atcode • Will be demoing PHP code in with Zend Framework • http://bit.ly/a7bT8h - good example of ASP.NET MVC app with Twilio services • Twilio has good Ruby and PHP libraries • Has others, not as full featured yet
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  Code!
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  Questions?
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  Thank you Michael Kimsal 919827 4724 michaelkimsal.com/blog @mgkimsal