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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.

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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation In addition to our simple HTTP SMS Gateway API, explained here, we also provide a ‘RESTful’ SMS API to give you access to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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation In our REST API specification document we saw, in general terms, how to make a request to our REST SMS API and how to deal with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 →

Supported and Unsupported characters in Text Messages – GSM Character Set

Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Richard.


Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, All SMS Gateway Documentation, Bulk SMS, Documentation
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When constructing the message for your SMS Marketing campaign you should be aware that not all characters are supported by the GSM networks. They have a specific character set that they work to. It shouldn’t be a mjor concern to 99%+ of people as almost all common characters are supported. … Continue reading →

Bulk SMS API ASP Help

Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Nick.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation

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 … Continue reading →

PHP 5 Simple SMS send Class

Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Nick.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, PHP Classes, Technical

This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation 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 … Continue reading →

PHP 5 Delivery Report Helper Class for our SMS Gateway

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Nick.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, PHP Classes
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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. … Continue reading →

PHP 5 SMS Send Class implementing listeners on our SMS Gateway

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Nick.


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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 … Continue reading →

Using the SMS Gateway API, Automating Delivery Report Collection

Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Nick.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation, Technical

This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation 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 … Continue reading →

Text Marketer short code / txtUs API options

Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by Nick.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation, Technical

Introduction The keyword on your system (on short code 88802) or your txtUs number can be used to “route” incoming texts 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 … Continue reading →

How to integrate our SMS Gateway API into your systems

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Nick.


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Introduction Adding SMS as a communication method to a system is often very useful, for instance you don’t have issues with spam filtering, it doesn’t require the person to make an immediate response like a phone call, so it’s great for alerts and triggers. Another good application for SMS (text … Continue reading →

SMS Gateway API – Specification

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Nick.


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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation 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 … Continue reading →

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