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Send Inspirational Quotes Every Morning in PHP Using Cron, SendGrid, Twilio SMS and Quote APIs
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Michael Jaroya
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1,535
Language
English
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Summary
This tutorial aims to create an app that sends inspirational quotes every morning using PHP, Cron, SendGrid, Twilio SMS, and Quote APIs. The app fetches random quotes from two APIs, Forismatic and Favqs, and sends them via email and SMS using Twilio and SendGrid respectively. The code is written in Laravel, a popular PHP framework for web development. The tutorial covers the setup of the required services, creation of the Quote model, sending of quotes via SMS and email, and scheduling of the app to run daily at 6:00 am using Cron.