Sending SMS with Nexmo in Laravel

In this tutorial I am going to discuss how to send SMS using Nexmo.

First you have to sign up in Nexmo website and you can use your free account for testing

Then you can install the PHP client library using Composer

composer require nexmo/laravel

You can add Nexmo\Laravel\NexmoServiceProvider to the providers array in your config/app.php

'providers' => [

 // other code 
 Nexmo\Laravel\NexmoServiceProvider::class,
],

In your .env file. You can put the key and secret

NEXMO_KEY=c2f2ecaa
NEXMO_SECRET=23324de3c4b9a7b6

Now you can create route in routes\web.php file

Route::get('/sms', 'SMSController@send');

In your SMSController, you can put the following code to send SMS

 public function send(){
    	Nexmo::message()->send([
    	'to'   => '000773524056',
    	'from' => '16105552344',
    	'text' => 'Using the facade to send a message.'
		]);
    }

Now you can send the SMS using following URL http://127.0.0.1:8001/sms

You can see the SMS like this in your phone