WhatsApp is considered to be one of the top messaging apps globally, with over 1.5 billion users and over 60 billion messages sent per day. It has proven to be secure and reliable over the years and now with recent surveys, online businesses are using it as a communication medium to reach their customers other than the traditional way of sending SMS. In this tutorial, I’m going to take you through how to integrate WhatsApp Messaging into your application using the Twilio API for WhatsApp messaging. Here’s a short 30-second video on how you can achieve this after setting up.

This tutorial assumes you have basic knowledge of PHP and Unix/Linux commands. If not, don't be discouraged. I will explain every concept in detail.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed in your local development environment.

Getting Started

Open your terminal and run the following commands: