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Bulk SMS API ASP Help

 

Using standard ASP libraries
<%
url=”http://www.textmarketer.biz/gateway/?username=#&password=#&number=#&message=msg&orig=nameORnumber&option=xml”

Set objXMLDoc = CreateObject(”Microsoft.XMLDOM”)

objXMLDoc.async = False
objXMLDoc.load(url)

status = objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(”//response”).getAttribute(”status”)

if status = “success”  then
response.write “Status ” & status & ” Credits ” & objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(”//response/credits”).Text
else
response.write “Status ” & status & ” Reason ” & objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(”//response/reason”).Text
end if
%>
Put that into an ASP page and [...]

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The SMS Gateway

 

How to use an SMS Gateway

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PHP 5 Simple SMS send Class

 

2 classes available in php 5, SendSMS and SendSMSXML (recommended)
Class Name: SendSMS (depreciated)
This class is a nice and easy way to start sending SMS’s with the Text Marketer system, please feel free to modify at will. You just need the username and password from your account login as the constructor arguments.
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PHP 5 Delivery Report Helper Class for our SMS Gateway

 

Class Name: ProcessDeliveryReport
This class enables you to access your delivery reports in a nice simplified way. You can search for the outcome of a message for a given number, specify the outcome and the number, download all the data for the given date or parse the reports line by line.
The constructor requires the delivery report directory [...]

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PHP 5 SMS Send Class implementing listeners on our SMS Gateway

 

Class Name: SendSMSNotifier
This class is designed around the FREE Text Marketer SMS API, you need to sign up here to use it.
SendSMSNotifier is a singleton class design, incorporating listeners. Your class must include the following public functions: creditAlert($credits_remaining) and failureAlert($error,$number,$message,$error).
Download the class from here
Example of use
class MyTestClass
{
/// [...]

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Using the SMS Gateway API, Automating Delivery Report Collection

 

Introduction
If you are using the API / Gateway to send bulk SMS you can collect your delivery reports from the server, which is a good way of removing bad numbers from your data.
Delivery Reports and the API
It is important to understand the difference between getting a “failure”  (or success) message at the API/Gateway and a [...]

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Text Marketer short code API options

 

Introduction
Text Marketer owns the 88802 short code, this short code can be used to “route” incoming texts via a keyword to your account and optionally respond with a message “thanks for entering our competition” etc, (this form of communication is known as text response).  You can also configure your account to trigger a response when [...]

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SMS Gateway API - Specification

 

It is recommended that you use the  RESTful version of the API which has largely superseded this document (you can do more with it). However if you want to get up and running quickly then it might still be the best way for you.
When you create a free account you can also use the Text Marketer API (sometimes known as a gateway). [...]

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How to use an SMS Gateway

 

Our SMS Gateway is extremely powerful indeed. It allows companies to connect to our systems and send out messages 1 at a time. Although this sounds a bit old fashioned in these days of huge numbers of bulk sms, it has some considerable advantages.
By integrating with our SMS Gateway you can effectivel ‘text enable’ any [...]

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