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

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

its a simple script

$sending = http_post("your_domain", 80, "/sendsms", array("Username" => $uname, "PIN" => $password, "SendTo" => $Phone, "Message" => $usermessage));

and bingo

Answer 2

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;
}

Answer 3

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' );