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Category: Technical

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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation deliveryReport This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document.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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation deliveryReports This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document.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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation credits This document is referred to by the REST SMS Gateway API – Specification Document.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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation In addition to our simple HTTP SMS Gateway API, explained here, we also provide a ‘RESTful’ SMS API to give you access to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 Gateway API – Specification Document

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Jay.


Categories: Business SMS, Documentation, Technical
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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation 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, … 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

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
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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

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
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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
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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
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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

.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

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

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