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 error checking to the examples below.

In each of the languages used here we create a request, send it, receive the response, and parse its contents.

PHP

Example for getting the number of credits:

$url = 'http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/credits';
$username = 'myAPIusername'; // CHANGE THIS!!!
$password = 'myAPIpassword'; // CHANGE THIS!!!
$url = "$url?username=$username&password=$password";

// we're using the curl library to make the request
$curlHandle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$responseBody = curl_exec($curlHandle);
$responseInfo  = curl_getinfo($curlHandle);
curl_close($curlHandle);

// deal with the response
if ($responseInfo['http_code']==200)
{
	$xml_obj = simplexml_load_string($responseBody);
	$credits = (int) $xml_obj->credits;
	// do something with the result
	echo $credits;

} else {
	// handle the error
	var_dump($responseBody);
}

Example for getting the list of delivery reports:

$url = 'http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/deliveryReports';
$username = 'myAPIusername'; // CHANGE THIS!!!
$password = 'myAPIpassword'; // CHANGE THIS!!!
$url = "$url?username=$username&password=$password";

// we're using the curl library to make the request
$curlHandle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$responseBody = curl_exec($curlHandle);
$responseInfo  = curl_getinfo($curlHandle);
curl_close($curlHandle);

// deal with the response
if ($responseInfo['http_code']==200)
{
	$xml_obj = simplexml_load_string($responseBody);
	$atts = $xml_obj->reports->attributes();
	$num_reports = (int) $atts->quantity;

	if ($num_reports > 0)
	{
		echo "$num_reports reports\n";
		$reports = array();
		foreach ($xml_obj->reports->report as $xml_report)
		{
			$atts = $xml_report->attributes();
			$name = (string) $atts->name;
			$updated = (string) $atts->last_updated;
			$reports[] = array('name'=>$name, 'modified'=>$updated);
		}
		// do something with the report details
		var_dump($reports);
	} else {
		echo 'No reports available';
	}
} else {
	// handle the error
	var_dump($responseBody);
}

Example for getting the details of a particular delivery report:

// TODO the URL will change according to the delivery report to retrieve...
$url = 'http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/deliveryReport/GatewayAPI_09-02-10';
$username = 'myAPIusername'; // CHANGE THIS!!!
$password = 'myAPIpassword'; // CHANGE THIS!!!
$url = "$url?username=$username&password=$password";

// we're using the curl library to make the request
$curlHandle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$responseBody = curl_exec($curlHandle);
$responseInfo  = curl_getinfo($curlHandle);
curl_close($curlHandle);

// deal with the response
if ($responseInfo['http_code']==200)
{
	$xml_obj = simplexml_load_string($responseBody);

	$reportRows = array();
	foreach ($xml_obj->report->reportrow as $xml_reportRow)
	{
		$atts = $xml_reportRow->attributes();
		$mobile = (string) $atts->mobile_number;
		$updated = (string) $atts->last_updated;
		$msgID = (int) $atts->message_id;
		$status = (string) $atts->status;
		$reports[] = array('mobile'=>$mobile, 'modified'=>$updated, 'messageID'=>$msgID, 'status'=>$status);
	}
	// do something with the report details
	var_dump($reports);

} else {
	// handle the error
	var_dump($responseBody);
}

Example for sending an SMS:

$url = 'http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/sms';
$username = 'myAPIusername'; // CHANGE THIS!!!
$password = 'myAPIpassword'; // CHANGE THIS!!!

$data = array('message'=>'hello','mobile_number'=>'447777777777', 'originator'=>'me',
	'username'=>$username, 'password'=>$password);
$data = http_build_query($data, '', '&');
// we're using the curl library to make the request
$curlHandle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$responseBody = curl_exec($curlHandle);
$responseInfo  = curl_getinfo($curlHandle);
curl_close($curlHandle);

// deal with the response
if ($responseInfo['http_code']==200)
{
	$xml_obj = simplexml_load_string($responseBody);
	// do something with the result
	echo "Message ID: $xml_obj->message_id\n";
	echo "Credits used: $xml_obj->credits_used\n";

	var_dump($responseBody);

} else {
	// handle the error
	var_dump($responseInfo);
	var_dump($responseBody);
}

Example for transferring credits:

<?php
/**
 * POST request on the 'credits' resource (credit transfer)
 */
$url = 'http://www.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/credits';
// for testing:
//$url = 'http://sandbox.textmarketer.biz/services/rest/credits';
$username = 'myAPIusername'; // CHANGE THIS!!! - the username of the account you're transferring FROM
$password = 'myAPIpassword'; // CHANGE THIS!!!
$targetAccountNumber = 0; // CHANGE THIS!!

$data = array('quantity'=>'1','target'=>$targetAccountNumber,
	'username'=>$username, 'password'=>$password);
$data = http_build_query($data, '', '&');
// we're using the curl library to make the request
$curlHandle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$responseBody = curl_exec($curlHandle);
$responseInfo  = curl_getinfo($curlHandle);
curl_close($curlHandle);

// deal with the response
if ($responseInfo['http_code']==200)
{
 // success - you may want to read in the return data here to see how many credits were  left on each account

} else {
	// handle the error here
	// var_dump($responseInfo);
	// var_dump($responseBody);
}

?>

For more details on creating REST requests in PHP, see here.