Use Twilio to Text Yourself

twilio-text-yourself.php

<?php
// Add the Twilio library via composer
require_once( __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php' );

// Use the Twilio REST API Client
use Twilio\Rest\Client;

class Twilio_Gateway {
  
	// Fill these in - see your Twilio dashboard
  	private $twilio_sid = '';
 	private $twilio_auth = '';
  	private $twilio_from = ''; // The phone number you bought from Twilio
  	private $twilio_to = ''; // Your phone number!

	// the max number of messages you want to send per day
	// This is totally optional, but I like to have a safeguard in place.
	protected $limit = 20; 
	
	public function text_me( $msg ) {
		if ( $this->over_limit() ) {
			// @todo: log error message
			return false;
		} else {
			$client = new Client( $this->twilio_sid, $this->twilio_auth );

			$response = $client->messages->create(
				$this->twilio_to,
				array(
					'from' => $this->twilio_from,
					'body' => $msg,
				)
			);

			$response = $response->toArray();
			if ( ! empty( $response['errorCode'] ) ) {
				//@todo: log error message
				$error_message = $response['errorMessage'];
				return false;
			} else {
				$this->log_success();
				return true;
			}
		}
	}

	public function log_success() {
	  // implement this
	}
  
  	private function over_limit() {
    	// implement this
	// return true/false
  	}
}

For more details, check out my blog post Use Twilio to Programmatically Text Yourself!