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Update: There seems to be some problem when the API is being accessed from my domain. Kindly try hosting the script in your own domains.

Hi friends, if you are in India and if you are developing software prototypes which has to send SMS alerts to various Indian mobile numbers, you needn’t spend a lot to buy SMS credits at the various sites. Over the last weekend, I spent some time hacking up a quick SOAP based web service which you can consume in your programs.

Please note that you need to create an account at www.way2sms.com before proceeding further.

How to Use – Method 1:

Currently the web service is active at http://www.aswinanand.com/sendsms.php. This accepts four parameters.

The URL – http://www.aswinanand.com/sendsms.php – can be invoked with the parameters as follows:

http://www.aswinanand.com/sendsms.php?uid=9933445566&pwd=password&phone= 9812345678;9933445566&msg=Hello+World

You can also do a HTTP POST to the same URL to send the SMS. Here’s an example:

<form method=”post” action=”http://www.aswinanand.com/sendsms.php“>
<input type=”hidden” name=”uid” value=”9933445566″ />
<input type=”hidden” name=”pwd” value=”password” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”phone” value=”9812345678;9933445566″ />
<input type=”hidden” name=”msg” value=”Hello World” />
<input type=”submit” value=”Send SMS” />
</form>

How to Use – Method 2:

The functionality is also exposed as a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) WSDL (Web Service Description Language). WSDL can be accessed at http://www.aswinanand.com/sendsms.php?wsdl. To know more about how to use this WSDL in Microsoft Visual Studio, check out this article.

Deploying on your own Server:

To deploy this SMS script on your own server, first download the source code & follow the instructions:

1. Let us assume that you wish to run the service at http://www.example.com/sms/sendsms.php. Here, http://www.example.com/ is your domain, “sms” is the folder and “sendsms.php” is the PHP script in that folder.
2. Hence, using FTP or SSH, login to your domain hosting space and create a folder named “sms”.
3. Extract the source code to the “sms” folder. If you don’t want to expose a SOAP WSDL, feel free to skip to step 6.
4. Since the SMS source code supports SOAP, you have to download the ‘nusoap’ library. Then extract the ‘nusoap’ library to the same “sms” folder.
5. Once everything is extracted, the folder structure should be:
   • example.com
     • sms/
       • sendsms.php
       • htmlparser.inc (optional)
       • nusoap/
         • class.nusoap_base.php
         • class.soap_transport_http.php
         • class.wsdlcache.php
         • class.soap_fault.php
         • class.soap_val.php
         • class.xmlschema.php
         • class.soap_parser.php
         • class.soapclient.php
         • class.soap_server.php
         • class.wsdl.php
         • nusoapmime.php
         • nusoap.php
6. Try accessing your web service at http://www.example.com/sms/sendsms.php now.

http://www.example.com/sms/sendsms.php?uid=9933445566&pwd=password&phone= 9812345678;9933445566&msg=Hello+World

or you can also do a HTTP POST as indicated above.

License Information:

The source code is licensed under “Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial”. Downloading the file(s) mean that you have agreed license terms.

Download:

Download the PHP source code here.

Other Languages:

Currently this SMS web service is available in the following programming languages:

• Java JAR Library