Issue while integrating SMS gateway in PHP - php

Question

In my PHP project I want to integrate SMS gateway.
I have integrated HSPSMS SMS gateway.
They have given one API for this,but unfortunately I am unable to call this in proper way. I have called API after user successfully registered to site for sending SMS to user regarding same to notify he had successfully registered. Currently I am sending SMS for same but API's can send response back for SMS delivery(Successfully SMS sent or not in a JSON format).
Here is a problem- I am unable to caught the return response of SMS gateway,so it causes the Response is showing on user/Web Page.
It is a problematic for user.
For calling SMS gateway I have used PHP Header function like:
header("Location:URL of SMS Gateway");
My Code as Bellow,
<?php
include("otherpages/connection.php");
if(isset($_POST['submit1'])) {
$mname=$_POST['mname'];
$cdate=$_POST['cdate'];
$maddress1=$_POST['maddress'];
$mschool=$_POST['mschool'];
$mkendra=$_POST['centrename'];
$mmobile=$_POST['mmobile'];
$user=$_POST['user'];
$pass=$_POST['pass'];
$approved="0";
$qr="insert into tempregistration values('','$cdate','$mname','$maddress1','$mschool','$mschool','$mkendra','$mmobile','$user','$pass','$approved')";
// Code for Registration SMS
$url = 'http://sms.hspsms.com/sendSMS?username=#USERNAME#&message=Dear User,You Have Succeffully Registered to ABC.com ,Thanks&sendername=HSPSMS&smstype=PROMO&numbers=9503808004&apikey=#APIKey#';
header("Location:$url");
?>
Please help me on same or guide where I am doing right or wrong?
Any help will be appreciable.

Answer 1

You're sending the user's browser to the API, what you want to do is have PHP make the request and then tell the user if it was successful or not.
You may be able to use get_file_contents, but curl will give you more control.
You should have a function that will send the request to the API and return a success/failure and then display a message to the user.
Something like this (untested):
if(isset($_POST['submit1'])) {
$mname=$_POST['mname'];
$cdate=$_POST['cdate'];
$maddress1=$_POST['maddress'];
$mschool=$_POST['mschool'];
$mkendra=$_POST['centrename'];
$mmobile=$_POST['mmobile'];
$user=$_POST['user'];
$pass=$_POST['pass'];
$approved="0";
$qr="insert into tempregistration values('',
'$cdate','$mname','$maddress1','$mschool',
'$mschool','$mkendra','$mmobile','$user','$pass','$approved')";
//update to encode parameters which contain spaces
$message = urlencode('Dear User, You have successfully registered ...');
// other parametes might also contain spaces ...
$username = urlencode('#USERNAME');
$sendername = urlencode('HSPSMS');
//etc
$url = 'http://sms.hspsms.com/sendSMS?username='.$username
.'&message='.$message
.'&sendername='.$sendername
.'&smstype=PROMO&numbers=9503808004&apikey=#APIKey#';
if ($result = do_api_call($url)){
echo "SMS API returned:<br>";
echo $result;//for debugging
}else {
echo "Failure"
}
}
...
function do_api_call($url){
//this is very simplistic code to get you going ...
//use curl instead for more control
return file_get_contents($url);
}