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Twilio Cookbook: Second Edition

By : Roger Stringer
Book Image

Twilio Cookbook: Second Edition

By: Roger Stringer

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Twilio Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Searching the stock market


Want to get the latest stock quotes for your favorite stock symbol? This recipe will let us use the "stock" keyword to trigger a lookup of the latest stock quotes.

So for example, sending a text of "stock AAPL" will return the latest stock information for the AAPL symbol.

Getting ready

The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the Chapter5/ folder.

How to do it...

This recipe will let us search Yahoo Finance for today's price quote by using the stock symbol. Create a file called stock.php in the pages folder and add the following code to it:

<?php
  $results = stock( $keywords );
  $i = 1;
  $reply = array();
  $quote = $results->quote;
  $msg = $quote->symbol.' - '.$quote->LastTradePriceOnly.' - '.$quote->Change.' - '.$quote->PercentChange;
    $reply[] = $msg;
    print_sms_reply( $reply );

function stock( $symbol ){
    $yelpql = "
    USE 'http://www.datatables.org/yahoo/finance/yahoo.finance.quotes.xml' AS yahoo.finance.quotes;select...