Twilio blacklist rule fatal error

salon_sue

I am using twilio to send bulk sms messages. Let's say some customer decided that they don't want to receive messages anymore so they reply with "stop" and that will add them to the black list. I am hard coding the phone numbers because I am still testing on my own cell phones. I noticed that when I do not remove the numbers on the black list from my code, I am getting an error message and my script stops at that point. In the future, I will...

Originally asked by Hussam Hallak on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Twilio developer evangelist here. You need to catch the exception that is thrown from the request to send a message to the blacklisted number. You can do so with try and catch like this: foreach ($people as $number => $name) { try { $sms = $client->account->messages->create( $number, array( 'from' => "+18443949780", 'body' => "Hey $name, this is Hussam. Testing Twilio SMS API!" ) ); echo "Sent message to $name.\n"; } catch (\Twilio\Exceptions\RestException $e) { echo "Couldn't send message to $number\n"; } } When you hook this up to a database, you'll want to use the catch to update a field to mark the number as blocked so that you don't try to send to it again. Let me know if that helps at...

Full answer by philnash: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/40998443 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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