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Twilio: Send SMS using Basic Authentication

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Demonstrates how to use Twilio to send an SMS message using Basic authentication. Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\JsonObject;
use Chilkat2\Rest;

// Demonstrates how to use Basic Authentication in a REST API call for Twilio.
// Sends an SMS text message..

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$rest = new Rest();

// Use Basic Authentication.
// Your Twilio Account SID is the username.
// Your Twilio Auth Token is the password.
$rest->SetAuthBasic('TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID', 'TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN');

// Make the initial connection (without sending a request yet) to Twilio.
$bTls = true;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = true;
try {
    $rest->Connect('api.twilio.com', $port, $bTls, $bAutoReconnect);

    // Provide the information for the SMS text message:
    $rest->AddQueryParam('To', '+16518675309');
    $rest->AddQueryParam('From', '+15005550006');
    $rest->AddQueryParam('Body', 'Hey Jenny! Good luck on the bar exam!');
    $rest->AddQueryParam('MediaUrl', 'http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1075/1404618563_3ed9a44a3a.jpg');

    // Send the SMS text message.
    // Your Twilio Account SID is part of the URI path:
    $responseJson = $rest->FullRequestFormUrlEncoded('POST', '/2010-04-01/Accounts/TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID/Messages.json');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// When successful, the response status code will equal 201.
if ($rest->ResponseStatusCode != 201) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    echo 'response status code = ', $rest->ResponseStatusCode, "\n";
    echo 'response status text = ', $rest->ResponseStatusText, "\n";
    echo 'response header: ', $rest->ResponseHeader, "\n";
    echo 'response body (if any): ', $responseJson, "\n";
    echo "---\n";
    echo 'LastRequestStartLine: ', $rest->LastRequestStartLine, "\n";
    echo 'LastRequestHeader: ', $rest->LastRequestHeader, "\n";
    exit;
}

// The response is JSON.  We'll show how to get a few bits of information from it.
// A full sample JSON response is shown below..

$json = new JsonObject();
$json->EmitCompact = false;
$json->Load($responseJson);

// First show the entire JSON.
echo $json->Emit(), "\n";

// Now get some individual pieces of information:
echo 'sid: ', $json->StringOf('sid'), "\n";
echo 'body: ', $json->StringOf('body'), "\n";
echo 'media: ', $json->StringOf('subresource_uris.media'), "\n";

echo "Success.\n";

// Sample JSON response:

// {
//   "sid": "MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3",
//   "date_created": null,
//   "date_updated": null,
//   "date_sent": null,
//   "account_sid": "112e1111e0151133d11112101111d1111",
//   "to": "+16518675309",
//   "from": "+15005550006",
//   "messaging_service_sid": null,
//   "body": "Sent from your Twilio trial account - Hey Jenny! Good luck on the bar exam!",
//   "status": "queued",
//   "num_segments": "1",
//   "num_media": "0",
//   "direction": "outbound-api",
//   "api_version": "2010-04-01",
//   "price": null,
//   "price_unit": "USD",
//   "error_code": null,
//   "error_message": null,
//   "uri": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/AC2e9b6bc0f51133df24926f07341d3824/Messages/MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3.json",
//   "subresource_uris": {
//     "media": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/AC2e9b6bc0f51133df24926f07341d3824/Messages/MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3/Media.json"
//   }
// }