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 give you access to information about your SMS marketing account … Continue reading
Category: Technical
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 Tags: email, gateway, google, hotmail, outlook, send, sms
REST SMS Gateway API – keywords resource
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical
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 keyword is available on our ShortCode number. … Continue reading
REST SMS Gateway API – sms resource
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical
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 to send the specified SMS message. Example … Continue reading
REST SMS Gateway API – deliveryReport resource
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical
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 sent on a given day, or for … Continue reading
REST SMS Gateway API – deliveryReports resource
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical
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’) performs actions on the list of available … Continue reading
REST SMS Gateway API – credits resource
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical
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 GET method Get the number of credits … 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 Tags: All SMS Gateway Documentation, gateway, integrate, RESTful, sms, sms api, web service, Web to SMS
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, you may wish to jump to our … Continue reading
REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: Business SMS, Documentation, Technical Tags: All SMS Gateway Documentation, RESTful, sms api, specification
For an overview of what REST and our RESTful SMS API is all about you may like to read our RESTful SMS API Overview. If you prefer you can use the simple SMS gateway, rather than our RESTful implementation. To get straight into the details, jump to: Quick Start Error codes You … Continue reading
REST SMS API Code Examples
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Jay.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Development Blog, PHP Classes, Technical Tags: All SMS Gateway Documentation, php, php5, RESTful, sms api, support
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! NOTE: You will want to add additional … Continue reading
Example of a Delphi/Pascal Interface for the Bulk SMS Gateway / API
Posted on February 11th, 2010 by admin.
Categories: Technical
For more information regarding the bulk sending API click here. A code example for sending SMS via a Delphi Pascal language, thanks to Graham Murt for the example code. {******************************************************************************* * * * TextMarketer Delphi/Pascal Interface * * * ******************************************************************************** { example use: procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); begin SendTextMarketerSms(username, password, sender, recipient, … Continue reading
PHP and SMS
Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Nick.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Technical Tags: All SMS Gateway Documentation, sms api
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
SMS Gateway Reliability – The Chain is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Documentation, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice, SMS Providers, Technical, Text Messaging Software Tags: bulk sms reliability, most reliable bulk sms service, reliable sms gateway, sms gateway reliability
Most bulk SMS providers , (including ourselves) will take great pains to point out the merits of direct connections to the UK Networks, and a direct connection is indeed essential for a first class, reliable sms service. But that is only part of the story. Just as crucial to reliability are … Continue reading
System Update – Unsubscribe Service Now Live on Bulk SMS Service
Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, Bulk SMS, Business SMS, System FAQs, Technical Tags: Bulk SMS, sms marketing, stop texts from sms service, unsubscribe from sms service
Our development team has been busy recently building a range of new tools for our main bulk sms service. We’ll be reporting these new tools and what they can do for our customers over the next few weeks. One of the main reasons that sms is such a responsive direct … Continue reading
System Update – Upload your mobile numbers straight from Microsoft Excel
Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Documentation, System FAQs, Technical, Text Messaging Software Tags: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, sms marketing, upload numbers to a group, upload sms numbers
The development team at Text Marketer have had a busy few months and the latest system improvement has now been launched. Following customer research, we have now built into all accounts the ability to upload numbers straight from Excel, without having to save the database as a .csv or .txt … 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