Following up on my earlier post about using the Twilio API, here is how you can use the libraries provided by Twilio and utlize their REST api with your CodeIgniter application.
- To get started, download the Twilio PHP helper library
- Unzip twilio.php from the zip file into your CodeIgniter application/libraries directory.
- Create a new PHP file in the application/libraries directory (lets call it twilioapi.php)
- Open twilioapi.php & put in the below lines of code. Explanation for the code is below. ( I assume you know how to make custom libraries in CodeIgniter. If not, read this before proceeding further)
What we are basically doing above is creating an interface between CodeIgniter and the Twilio helper library. I think this works really well and its a much better approach (in my opinion) that hacking the helper library.
In line 2, you can see that we're including the Twilio helper library so that our library can reference its classes and methods. We declare two variables for storing the Account SID and the Auth Token. Both these values can be found in your Twilio developer account. We create a new client object $client and simply return the object. The idea is that wherever you call the library in your controller, you should get a client object, which you can then use the same way as shown in the Twilio examples.
That's it! A simple 15 line solution to integrate Twilio REST API with your CodeIgniter application. Please post suggestions to improve/add on to this library in the comments 
Update: Here is an example method that you can put in your controller to test the API.
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Update: I've put the code on a SVN repository hosted at Google Code. Please feel free to contribute and build around it.
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