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Category: All SMS Gateway Documentation

Articles about using our SMS Gateway API to integrate Bulk SMS into your website, application or software.

Buying Bulk SMS Services – 2 things to look out for

Posted on May 23rd, 2011 by Henry.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, SMS Providers
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Buying bulk sms services is pretty straightforward really. A quick Google search for something generic like ‘bulk sms’ reveals a huge range of providers. Having had a quick look through a couple of pages of search results, you’ll probably arrive at a decent shortlist of half a dozen possible suppliers. Having established your short list … Continue reading

REST SMS Gateway API – group resource

Posted on April 7th, 2011 by Jay.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation, Technical

group This resource allows you to view and modify a send group. This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document. Resource URI: http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/group Actions relating to send groups. POST method - Used to add number(s) to a group.   … Continue reading

Integrating Goldmine with our SMS Gateway

Posted on March 4th, 2011 by Richard.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation
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How to integrate Goldmine software with our SMS Gateway The 2 easiest methods of integrating Goldmine with our SMS Gateway are using; 1) The email to SMS gateway – http://www.textmarketer.co.uk/email-to-sms-gateway/email-sms.htm Or 2) The HTTP gateway – http://www.textmarketer.co.uk/blog/2009/05/sms-gateway/text-marketer-apigateway-spec/    

SMS Gateway in PHP

Posted on February 28th, 2011 by Richard.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Bulk SMS, Development Blog
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Build an SMS Gateway in PHP It’s a very straightforward task to build a small script in PHP to utilise our SMS Gateway to send out text messages. The benefit of integrating your SMS Gateway with Text Marketer is that we have the lowest cost per message of any company … Continue reading

Email-to-SMS Gateway service from Text Marketer

Posted on June 30th, 2010 by Jay.


Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, All SMS Gateway Documentation, Email to SMS, Technical
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Please note that this blog page has been superseded with http://www.textmarketer.co.uk/developers/sms-email-gateway.htm  Our email-to-SMS service provides a simple way for you to send text messages via email. This is in addition to our simple HTTP SMS Gateway API, explained here, and we also provide a more complex ‘RESTful’ SMS API to send SMS messages and … Continue reading

REST SMS Gateway API – keywords resource

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical

This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation keywords This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document. Resource URI: http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/keywords/mykeyword Actions on the ShortCode keywords (see Short Code SMS Service). GET method – get the availability of a given keyword GET method Test whether the specified … Continue reading

REST SMS Gateway API – sms resource

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical

This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation sms This resource deals with sending SMS to customer. This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document. Resource URI: http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/sms Actions relating to sending SMS messages. POST method - Used to send an SMS message. POST POST method Attempts … Continue reading

REST SMS Gateway API – deliveryReport resource

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical

This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation deliveryReport This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document. Resource URI: http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/deliveryReport Actions on a specific delivery report. GET method - Gets the contents of a delivery report An individual delivery report shows the current known status of all messages … Continue reading

REST SMS Gateway API – deliveryReports resource

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical

This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation deliveryReports This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document. Resource URI: http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/deliveryReports Actions on the list of available delivery reports. GET method - Gets a list of available delivery report names The REST API resource deliveryReports (note the trailing ‘s’) … Continue reading

REST SMS Gateway API – credits resource

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical

This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation credits This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document. Resource URI: http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/credits Actions on the account credits. GET method – get the number of credits currently available on your account POST method - transfer credits between accounts GET … Continue reading

RESTful Web Services SMS Gateway API Overview

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Jay.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical, Web to SMS
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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation In addition to our simple HTTP SMS Gateway API, explained here, we also provide a ‘RESTful’ SMS API to give you access to information about your SMS marketing account (don’t have one? Create a free account). If you are familiar with REST APIs, … Continue reading

REST SMS API Code Examples

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Jay.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Development Blog, PHP Classes, Technical
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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation In our REST API specification document we saw, in general terms, how to make a request to our REST SMS API and how to deal with the response. Here we provide you with some more concrete examples that you can copy & paste! … Continue reading

PHP and SMS

Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Nick.


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PHP is the very popular web scripting language, to make things easy for the PHP programmer we have provided some (almost!) plug and play  PHP code that easily integrates PHP with our SMS Gateway. Simple Example of sending SMS with PHP This class allows you to send SMS using PHP, … Continue reading

Using our short code and gateway APIs to create a game

Posted on July 28th, 2009 by Nick.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, PHP Classes, Technical

The Concept To create an interactive game using Text Messaging and to show how easy it is to create interactive experiences using your Text Marketer Account. The example uses both our short code API (to receive the customer responses) and then our  gateway API to send out the ‘answer’. The … Continue reading

.NET Examples

Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Nick.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation, Technical

Example of a .NET Bulk SMS Gateway / API integration For more information regarding the bulk sending API click here. A simple example for sending SMS via a .NET method Here’s a stand-alone .Net method: private static string SendSms(string p_userName, string p_password, string p_orig, string p_number, string p_message, bool p_respondInXml) … Continue reading