There are times when you have a large number of users and you need to update or notify them simultaneously via SMS. Maybe you run a membership site or personal blog. Whatever the case this tutorial will provide an efficient and easy way to achieve sending bulk SMS via your web app.

Technical Requirements

For this tutorial we’ll assume you already know or have the following:

A Terminal (Command Line)

Composer installed

Are familiar with PHP

Are familiar with Laravel (5+)

You have an existing Laravel (5+) project

You have a Twilio account and your credentials ready

Just in case you don’t have a Laravel project setup, this guide will help you to create a new Laravel project locally.

Install and Configure the Twilio Laravel SDK

The first thing we need to do is install the Twilio Laravel SDK which will provide the needed functions to get our bulk SMS app started. We’ll use the command line to achieve that. So in the command line type: