Tropo Scripting is a great way to build powerful, sophisticated communication applications in one of several popular development languages.

It’s easy to get up and running quickly with Tropo Scripting, to build multi-channel applications that leverage powerful features like SIP integration and speech recognition.

If you are developing an application in Tropo Scripting, you might at some point find that you need to send values to a back-end database or to retrieve information from an external system. There are several different ways to do this depending on the language you are using. This post will provide an example of one way to do this using the PHP scripting language.

Originally from Voxeo Blogs