How to send an sms to a phone number using php- Codeigniter? - php

Question

How to send an sms to a phone number using php- Codeigniter?
We have an sms-gateway-provider and I have a user-id, password and api-url. What I wanted to know is, how would I use these in a codeigniter framework, could I get a sample codes? I just wanted the proper codes to achieve this in Codeigniter.

Answer 1

There is simple sms helper available for codeigniter
Copy below file from github as sendsms_helper.php in /application/helpers/
https://github.com/SpringEdgeIndia/codeigniter-sms-api/
Usage:
Load sendsms helper as $this->load->helper('sendsms_helper');
Call sendsms function Ex. sendsms( '919918xxxxxx', 'test message' );

Answer 2

its a simple script
$sending = http_post("your_domain", 80, "/sendsms", array("Username" => $uname, "PIN" => $password, "SendTo" => $Phone, "Message" => $usermessage));
and bingo

Answer 3

you must use cURL for better security in CodeIgniter. this function works fine for sending SMS.
function sms_code_send($number='',$message='')
{
$username = 'username';
$password = '*******';
$originator = 'sender name';
$message = 'Welcom to ......, your activation code is : '.$message;
//set POST variables
$url = 'http://exmaple.com/bulksms/go?';
$fields = array(
'username' => urlencode($username),
'password' => urlencode($password),
'originator' => urlencode($originator),
'phone' => urlencode($number),
'msgtext' => urlencode($message)
);
$fields_string = '';
//url-ify the data for the POST
foreach($fields as $key=>$value)
{
$fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&';
}
rtrim($fields_string,'&');
//open connection
$ch = curl_init();
//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$fields_string);
//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//close connection
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
}