A quickie PHP script for managing a moderated Twilio SMS group.
I built this when I got tired of texting 15+ people every half hour with updates on my wife's neurosurgery.
- PHP 5.3 with the cURL extension and the Twilio SDK
- A Twilio account and number.
- Update the configuration settings and the list of known users.
- Upload somewhere web-accessible. I used a quickie EC2 instance.
- Grant your web server permissions to
feed.log. - Point your Twilio number at the EC2 instance's public URL.
- Any text received from the moderator is passed along to the group of users.
- Any other text received is passed back to the moderator.