Is there any way to get messages we send/received by using phone number in twilio?

Question

I would like to make my client to check whether end client is received text or not and what reply he/she has sent? I always going through twilio to see whether client received sms or not? Is there any way to check it from twilio?

Answer 1

Twilio developer evangelist here.

You can get both incoming messages to your Twilio numbers and reports on the status of messages after you send them from Twilio using webhooks.

When you send a message you can include a StatusCallback parameter. The parameter should be a URL in your application.

$client->messages
  ->create(
    $to,
    array(
        "from" => $from,
        "body" => "Let's grab lunch at Milliways tomorrow!",
        "statusCallback" => "https://example.com/messageStatus"
    )
);

Twilio will send a POST request to the statusCallback URL each time your message status changes to one of the following: queued, failed, sent, delivered, or undelivered. It will include the original message's SID, so you can tie these webhooks back to the message you sent.

Similarly, you can get these webhook notifications for incoming messages to your Twilio numbers. For this you need to set up the incoming webhook URL to the number in your Twilio console. Set it to a URL in your application and you will receive a webhook when someone sends a message to your Twilio number. Check out this quickstart guide on receiving messages to your Twilio number with PHP.

Let me know if that helps at all.

[edit]

Thanks for the comment where you made it clear that this is after the fact, not at the time of sending.

In this case, you can absolutely list the messages by the phone number that sent them. A message resource includes a Status attribute that lists the current message state in the Twilio system, anything from "accepted" and "queued" to "sending", "sent", "delivered", "undelivered" and "failed". You can see more about these statuses in the documentation.

To get the list of messages sent from a number you can use the following code:

use Twilio\Rest\Client;

// Your Account Sid and Auth Token from twilio.com/user/account
$sid = "ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
$token = "your_auth_token";
$client = new Client($sid, $token);

// Loop over the list of messages and echo a property for each one
foreach ($client->messages->read(array("from" => $FROM_NUMBER) as $message) {
    echo $message->status . " - " . $message->to . " = " . $message->body;
}