PHP function to implement sending SMS - php

Question

I am trying to implement sending SMS for this project I am working on using PHP. Note: I don't mean sending free SMS with the carrier and other things, I actually contacted an SMS company that provided a link as such
www.smssender.com?username=myusername&pass=mypass&message=mymessage&recipient=phonenumber.
What function in PHP can be used to send such a request to the server API, and also get a response? Here is what I want (pseudocode):
function Sendsms(){
add details to sting
send url to sms server with the parameters
get response and display
}

Answer 1

you want to do something like the following (this is an example for a POST request)
i am using PHP's curl http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-init.php
:
$url = 'http://domain.com/get-post.php';
$fields = array(
'lname' => urlencode($last_name),
'fname' => urlencode($first_name),
'title' => urlencode($title),
'company' => urlencode($institution),
'age' => urlencode($age),
'email' => urlencode($email),
'phone' => urlencode($phone)
);
//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);
The response to the request is in the variable $result

Answer 2

Look like you are doing a GET request. Have you looked into php http_get function?
<?php
$response = http_get("http://www.example.com/", array("timeout"=>1), $info);
print_r($info);
?>
source: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.http-get.php

Answer 3

function Sendsms()
{
//add details to sting
$url="www.smssender.comusername=myusername&pass=mypass&message=
mymessage&recipient=phonenumber";
//send url to sms server with the parameters
$rsp = file_get_contents($url);
//get response and display
if( $res )
{
echo "sms successfully send";
}
}