Simple PHP curl demo for Textbelt

sendSmsToTextbelt.php

<?php

//This demo doesn't cover case of network connectivity issues (failure to send HTTP POST to Textbelt)
//One could just wrap the request around try/catch exception handling for that

//Move the demo function into a separate file to make this into a wrapper library you can require/include and then call from a script

// A simple wrapper function to send SMS via Textbelt using curl in PHP
function sendSmsToTextbelt($number, $message, $locale="USA"){
	//determine the Textbelt URL to POST to...
	$url = "http://www.textbelt.com/";
	switch($locale) {
    case "International":
        $url .= "intl";
        break;
    case "Canada":
        $url .= "canada";
        break;
    case "USA":
    default:
    	$url .= "text";
	}

	//set up the HTTP POST request to Textbelt
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
	//the 2 fields for POSTing are number & message, add/adjust if you want to customize the other default fields (from, etc.)
	$fields = array(
	'number' => urlencode($number),
	'message' => urlencode($message)
	);
	//url-ify the data for the POST
	foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
	rtrim($fields_string, '&');
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($fields)); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);
	
	//send request and get result
	$output = curl_exec($ch);		
	curl_close($ch);
	$result = json_decode($output,true);
	return $result;
}

//simple demo (might have some issue parsing result, but the SMS does get sent...)
$status = sendSmsToTextbelt("your number here", "Simple PHP demo for Textbelt");
if($status->success){
	print "Message sent, but see www.textbelt.com for limitations with service.";
	//why this particular message? Because textbelt sent message to the carrier's SMS gateway, but we can't guarantee the gateway passes it on to recipient
}else{
	print $status->message;
}

?>

thanks. will give it a shot and let you know.
thanks again!

Hello.
I have tried it but i did not get any response (success or failure) and yet the sms was not sent. what could be wrong? is is my carrier gateway not supported?

this is what i tried, i removed the demo part just as you suggested.

success){ print "Message sent, but see www.textbelt.com for limitations with service."; //why this particular message? Because textbelt sent message to the carrier's SMS gateway, but we can't guarantee the gateway passes it on to recipient }else{ print $status->message; } } ?>

didnt get any response. i tried using country code, didnt work, used the mobile number without country code didnt work and also tried the country code without the + sign still to no avail. what could be d problem?

thanks

Sorry for late reply, Github didn't notify me of comments to this gist.

You say no get response. What result do you see? I would try a var_dump($status) to see what you get. I would expect you should get some form of output/response (it could be not JSON or some other structure) or the code should have thrown a generic exception back at you.