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I'm using Laravel 5.1 and I want to send SMS messages so I installed Aloha library:
https://github.com/aloha/laravel-twilio

I edited .env file with :

TWILIO_SID=AC7556934234234234234uuuuuuuuuu3

TWILIO_TOKEN=ca8xxxxxb9b60e66666666666666d355cfe315

TWILIO_FROM=+555555555555

Now I try to send a SMS with code:

...

use Twilio;

use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel;

use AlohaTwilioTwilioInterface;

use Services_Twilio_RestException;



class AdminController extends Controller {



    public function send() {

        try {

            Twilio::message('+77777777777', 'test test test');

        } catch (Services_Twilio_RestException $e) {

            dd($e);

        }

When I run function send() nothing happens (blank white screen) - no error with catch{} but also I don't receive SMS. When I look at Twilio SMS log there is nothing also.

How I can get an error message?
WHy this code doesn't send a message?

Go to Twilio web console and try sending messages. It typically gives a message or error code if a message is not sent successfully.

I have faced issues with Twilio not sending messages due to Country specific telecom policy for not accepting messages from unsolicited users/accounts.

Avid Twilio user here. I would recommend using Twilio's native PHP SDK over aloha/twilio. By default, I believe aloha/twilio pulls in twilio/sdk as it depends upon it, but I would remove aloha/twilio and just use twilio/sdk.

composer require twilio/sdk

I would then recommend creating a Twilio class inside say Services/Twilio.php where you can inject Twilio's client, create a new instance and instantiate it with your twilio config data. In this Service class, you could now put all of your Twilio methods like sendSMS(), sendMMS(), validatePhoneNumber(), etc and have access to them by injecting the new Twilio service class into your controller's constructor.

It might look like this:

Note that my implementation of sendSMS() uses a MessagingServiceSid and not a from number. You can replace 'messagingServiceSid' with 'from' if you are not utilizing a Twilio CoPilot Messaging Service in their platform.

Services/Twilio.php

namespace AppServices;



use TwilioRestClient;



class Twilio

{





    /**

     * @var Client

     */

    protected $twilio;





    public function __construct() {

        try {

            $this->twilio = new Client(config('twilio.SID'), config('twilio.TOKEN'));

        }

        catch (Exception $e) {

            //do something with the exception, client could not be instantiated.

        }

    }



//My sendSMS allows for the passing of an array in the $to argument, letting you send to

//multiple numbers (or just one)

    public function sendSMS($to, $message)

    {

        if (is_array($to)) {

            foreach($to as $value) {

                $this->twilio->messages->create($value, ['messagingServiceSid' => config('twilio.MESSAGING_SERVICE_SID'), 'body' => $message]);

            }

            return true;

        }

        $this->twilio->messages->create($to, ['messagingServiceSid' => config('twilio.MESSAGING_SERVICE_SID'), 'body' => $message]);

    }

}

AdminController.php

use AppServicesTwilio;



class AdminController extends Controller {



    protected $twilio;

    public function __construct(Twilio $twilio) 

    {

       $this->twilio = $twilio;

    }



    public function index()

{

$this->twilio->sendSMS('5551234567', 'Test message');

return 'Message was sent.';

}



}

If you implement Twilio in this way, you will be able to use any of the Twilio logic inside your controller without having to repeatedly create a new Twilio client or pass any of the config data.

I hope this helps.