You chose wisely. What is this _thing_ doing here? Many snippets are of questionable quality. Also, any decent programmer should be able to come up with all of

You chose wisely. What is this _thing_ doing here? Many snippets are of questionable quality. Also, any decent programmer should be able to come up with all of them and implement them more cleanly. Oh, and please people, don't use snippets like those without checking the services first (in the case of the emails, SMS). Just go to the page of the company offering the service, read the documentation AND also read the terms of service. Jeesh.