Twilio - Laravel issue - Credentials are required to create a Client - laravel-5.7

Question

I am receiving the following error
[2018-12-18 12:12:46] local.ERROR: Credentials are required to create a Client {"exception":"[object] (Twilio\Exceptions\ConfigurationException(code: 0): Credentials are required to create a Client at C:\wamp64\www\_javid\javid\vendor\twilio\sdk\Twilio\Rest\Client.php:157)
I will include the code below and the source i used to create it. I would like to add, this was all working correctly the other evening.
Today, i merely added a new function to handle the saving of messages to the database. Then i started receiving the above error. Naturally i reverted my changes but still the same error.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use JWTAuth;
use App\Item;
use Log;
use Twilio\Rest\Client;
class MessagingController extends Controller
{
protected $client;
public function __construct(Client $client){
$this->client = $client;
}
/**
* Show the form for creating a notification.
*
* #return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function create()
{
return view('notifications.create');
}
public function sendMessage(request $request){
$details = $request->only('membershipNumber', 'countryCode', 'message');
$user = User::where('membership_number', $details['membershipNumber'])->with('mobile_number')->first();
if(count($user)>0){
$this->messageSaveToDatabase($details, $user);
$this->messageSendToMobile($details, $user);
$this->messageSendToEmail($details, $user);
return response([
'status' => 'success',
'msg' => __('messages.success'),
'response' => $details
], 200);
} else {
return response([
'status' => 'error',
'msg' => __('messages.error')
], 200);
}
}
protected function messageSaveToDatabase($details, $user){
}
protected function messageSendToMobile($details, $user, $imageUrl = null){
$lineBreak = "\n\n";
$phoneNumber = $user->mobile_number->country_code.decrypt($user->mobile_number->number);
$message = "Hi member #".$details['membershipNumber'].$lineBreak.
$details['message'];
$twilioPhoneNumber = config('services.twilio')['phoneNumber'];
$messageParams = array(
'from' => $twilioPhoneNumber,
'body' => $message
);
if ($imageUrl) {
$messageParams['mediaUrl'] = $imageUrl;
}
$this->client->messages->create(
$phoneNumber,
$messageParams
);
}
protected function messageSendToEmail($details, $user){
}
}
I have checked the TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN, these are both correct.
The code was taken from the following guide, i stripped out the subscriber part. Guide from Twilio
one more thing, I found the following Here which suggests i need to do something like this $client = new Client($keySid, $keySecret, $accountSid); but the guide above, does not do this, plus it all worked like this also.
Any help or suggestions would be great, i'm running out of hair to pull out :(

Answer 1

After a little more googling and some re-working, I found a working solution
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use Twilio\Rest\Client;
class MessagingController extends Controller
{
protected function messageSendToMobile($details, $message, $user, $imageUrl = null){
$accountSid = env('TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID');
$authToken = env('TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN');
$twilioNumber = env('TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER');
$lineBreak = "\n\n";
$to = $user->mobile_number->country_code.decrypt($user->mobile_number->number);
$client = new Client($accountSid, $authToken);
try {
$client->messages->create(
$to,
[
"body" => $message,
"from" => $twilioNumber
]
);
Log::info('Message sent to ' . $twilioNumber);
} catch (TwilioException $e) {
Log::error(
'Could not send SMS notification.' .
' Twilio replied with: ' . $e
);
}
}
}