Laravel 11 Send SMS using Twilio Tutorial

In laravel 11, Twilio provides PHP SDK with some methods that helps developers to send SMS to users mobile phones.

Let’s start to make send sms application using twilio:

Step 1 – Create Account in Twilio

Open browser and type url “www.twilio.com“, and create a account in twilio.

Step 2 – Install Twilio PHP SDK

Run the following command to install php twilio sdk:

composer require twilio/sdk

Edit .env file and add twilio secret key and id in it:

TWILIO_SID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
TWILIO_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXX
TWILIO_FROM=+XXXXXXXXXXX

Step 3 – Create Controller

Run the following command to create controller that handle send sms process:

php artisan make:controller TwilioSMSController

Step 4 – Define Send SMS Method

Edit app/Http/Controllers/TwilioSMSController.php file, and define methods in it for send sms using twilio:

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Exception;
use Twilio\Rest\Client;
  
class TwilioSMSController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $receiverNumber = "RECEIVER_NUMBER";
        $message = "This is testing from itcodstuff.com";
  
        try {
  
            $account_sid = getenv("TWILIO_SID");
            $auth_token = getenv("TWILIO_TOKEN");
            $twilio_number = getenv("TWILIO_FROM");
  
            $client = new Client($account_sid, $auth_token);
            $client->messages->create($receiverNumber, [
                'from' => $twilio_number, 
                'body' => $message]);
  
            dd('SMS Sent Successfully.');
  
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            dd("Error: ". $e->getMessage());
        }
    }
}

Step 5 – Define Routes

Edit routes/web.php file, and define routes in it to handle send sms requests on controller:

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
  
use App\Http\Controllers\TwilioSMSController;
  
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
  
Route::get('sendSMS', [TwilioSMSController::class, 'index']);

Step 6 – Test This Application

Run the following command to start application server:

php artisan serve

Type the http://localhost:8000/sendSMS url on browser to send sms.