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Twilio: Send SMS using Basic Authentication

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Demonstrates how to use Twilio to send an SMS message using Basic authentication. AutoIt

Local $bSuccess = False

; Demonstrates how to use Basic Authentication in a REST API call for Twilio.
; Sends an SMS text message..

; This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
; See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$oRest = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Rest")

; Use Basic Authentication.
; Your Twilio Account SID is the username.
; Your Twilio Auth Token is the password.
$bSuccess = $oRest.SetAuthBasic("TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID","TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN")

; Make the initial connection (without sending a request yet) to Twilio.
Local $bTls = True
Local $iPort = 443
Local $bAutoReconnect = True
$bSuccess = $oRest.Connect("api.twilio.com",$iPort,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect)
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; Provide the information for the SMS text message:
$bSuccess = $oRest.AddQueryParam("To","+16518675309")
$bSuccess = $oRest.AddQueryParam("From","+15005550006")
$bSuccess = $oRest.AddQueryParam("Body","Hey Jenny! Good luck on the bar exam!")
$bSuccess = $oRest.AddQueryParam("MediaUrl","http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1075/1404618563_3ed9a44a3a.jpg")

; Send the SMS text message.
; Your Twilio Account SID is part of the URI path:
Local $sResponseJson = $oRest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST","/2010-04-01/Accounts/TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID/Messages.json")
If ($oRest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; When successful, the response status code will equal 201.
If ($oRest.ResponseStatusCode <> 201) Then
    ; Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    ConsoleWrite("response status code = " & $oRest.ResponseStatusCode & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("response status text = " & $oRest.ResponseStatusText & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("response header: " & $oRest.ResponseHeader & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("response body (if any): " & $sResponseJson & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("---" & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("LastRequestStartLine: " & $oRest.LastRequestStartLine & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("LastRequestHeader: " & $oRest.LastRequestHeader & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; The response is JSON.  We'll show how to get a few bits of information from it.
; A full sample JSON response is shown below..

$oJson = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")
$oJson.EmitCompact = False
$bSuccess = $oJson.Load($sResponseJson)

; First show the entire JSON.
ConsoleWrite($oJson.Emit() & @CRLF)

; Now get some individual pieces of information:
ConsoleWrite("sid: " & $oJson.StringOf("sid") & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("body: " & $oJson.StringOf("body") & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("media: " & $oJson.StringOf("subresource_uris.media") & @CRLF)

ConsoleWrite("Success." & @CRLF)

; Sample JSON response:

; {
;   "sid": "MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3",
;   "date_created": null,
;   "date_updated": null,
;   "date_sent": null,
;   "account_sid": "112e1111e0151133d11112101111d1111",
;   "to": "+16518675309",
;   "from": "+15005550006",
;   "messaging_service_sid": null,
;   "body": "Sent from your Twilio trial account - Hey Jenny! Good luck on the bar exam!",
;   "status": "queued",
;   "num_segments": "1",
;   "num_media": "0",
;   "direction": "outbound-api",
;   "api_version": "2010-04-01",
;   "price": null,
;   "price_unit": "USD",
;   "error_code": null,
;   "error_message": null,
;   "uri": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/AC2e9b6bc0f51133df24926f07341d3824/Messages/MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3.json",
;   "subresource_uris": {
;     "media": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/AC2e9b6bc0f51133df24926f07341d3824/Messages/MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3/Media.json"
;   }
; }