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Twilio / Slim Base Project

This is a small, almost skeleton project that I base my PHP projects on which underpin my Twilio tutorials. It's not intended to be special, nor feature-rich. Rather, it's designed to save me time getting started building my next PHP project for an upcoming Twilio tutorial.

It:

• Is a small, web-based PHP application based on the Slim Framework
• Has one route which returns no body and a minimum of HTTP headers
• Wraps Slim's Application object in a small utility class to make writing maintainable code easier

Note

The project does not make presumptions about the kind of application which will be built with it, thereby leaning toward a more ad hoc approach. However, it still tries to provide a sense of structure, for when that may be necessary, by including three empty directories: Entities, Services, and Middleware in the src directory. These are to provide a clear sense of structure as and when an application is built that would make use of these types of classes.

Prerequisites

You'll need the following to use the application:

• PHP 8.4 or above
• Composer installed globally
• Your preferred code editor or IDE
• Some terminal experience is helpful, though not required

Quick Start

To create a new project from this project, wherever you store your PHP apps, run the following command:

composer create-project settermjd/twilio-slim-base-project <my-project>

Tip

Replace <my-project> with whatever you want to name the new project directory.

Then, open the Twilio Console in your browser of choice, and copy the Account SID, Auth Token, and phone number from the Account Info, as you can see in the screenshot below.

Then, set those values as the values of TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID, TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN, and TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER, respectively, in .env.

Contributing

If you want to contribute to the project, whether you have found issues with it or just want to improve it, here's how:

• Issues: ask questions and submit your feature requests, bug reports, etc
• Pull requests: send your improvements

License

MIT

Disclaimer

No warranty expressed or implied. Software is as is.