Twilio: Rest API - Send Message - How to get message sid?

Question

I want to send MMS using Twilio REST API. The message was sent successfully However, I am not able to get the unique MessageSid of the sent message.

I have already tried with $result->sid and $result->messageSid.

Current Code

$result= $client->account->messages->create(
    $to, array('from' => $from,
               'body' => $message,
               'mediaUrl' => $mediaurl
              ));               

if (isset($result->messageSid))
    return $result->messageSid;
else
    return "";

Is there anything i am doing wrong ?

Did you check your Twilio account if message was sent successfully ? — Punit Gajjar, Mar 24 '17 at 13:13
try to print your `$result` variable like `print_r($result)` and check what response you are getting.. Also check [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25351102/sending-sms-via-twilio-in-php) once . . — Punit Gajjar, Mar 24 '17 at 13:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 27 '17 at 07:20

Twilio developer evangelist here.

If you check the output for the first code sample on the documentation page for sending messages with Twilio then you will see that the returned JSON should have a sid property. Like this:

{
  "sid": "MMc781610ec0b3400c9e0cab8e757da937",
  "date_created": "Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:07:03 +0000",
  "date_updated": "Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:07:03 +0000",
  "date_sent": null,
  "account_sid": "ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
  "to": "+15558675309",
  "from": "+15017250604",
  "body": "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs?",
  "status": "queued",
  "num_segments": "1",
  "num_media": "1",
  "direction": "outbound-api",
  "api_version": "2010-04-01",
  "price": null,
  "price_unit": "USD",
  "error_code": null,
  "error_message": null,
  "uri": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/Messages/MMc781610ec0b3400c9e0cab8e757da937.json",
  "subresource_uris": {
    "media": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/Messages/MMc781610ec0b3400c9e0cab8e757da937/Media.json"
  }
}

I just used similar code to you (I didn't send a media URL) and could echo $result->sid.

$result = $client->account->messages->create(
    'MY_NUMBER',
    array(
        'from' => 'MY_TWILIO_NUMBER',
        'body' => "Hey Jenny! Good luck on the bar exam!"
    )
);

echo $result->sid;

Let me know if that helps.

I am getting result like object(Twilio\Rest\Api\V2010\Account\MessageInstance){....}. Does it matter? — arun kumar, Mar 27 '17 at 13:03

Twilio: Rest API - Send Message - How to get message sid?

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