You’ll need a TextMagic account and to download their PHP helper which they provide after signing up.
// Include the TextMagic PHP lib require('textmagic-sms-api-php/TextMagicAPI.php'); // Set the username and password information $username = 'myusername'; $password = 'mypassword'; // Create a new instance of TM $router = new TextMagicAPI(array( 'username' => $username, 'password' => $password )); // Send a text message to '999-123-4567' $result = $router->send('Wake up!', array(9991234567), true); // result: Result is: Array ( [messages] => Array ( [19896128] => 9991234567 ) [sent_text] => Wake up! [parts_count] => 1 )
Hi Chris, nice one. First of all thanks for such an informative post, but what if I’m using a framework for an instance CakePHP will this method work with it?
Rishi: The ‘correct’ way to do this with something like CakePHP or Zend would be to set up the TextMagic API as a third party library. But even just including it as Chris has demonstrated here would work, yes.
Framework or not, at the end of the day it’s still PHP. ;)
Thanks Vincent :-)
can i get the actual / full code of the send text message please…
All of your stuff is very impressive to say the least.. for texting you can also use MailUtils and SSMTP for free.
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echo “AuthUser=$AuthUser” >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
echo “AuthPass=$AuthPass” >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
echo “FromLineOverride=YES” >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
echo “mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587” >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
echo “useSTARTTLS=YES” >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
echo $message | mail -s “$SUBJECT” $NUMBER
This is awesome, we’ve used http://notifynotify.com to capture phone numbers and then use their platform to send them out.