SMS API

apiYou can interface an application, website or system with our messaging gateway by using our very flexible HTTP API connection. Once you're connected, you'll be able to deliver messages or check your balance.

The parameters are

1. recipient : The destination phone numbers. Separate multiple numbers with comma(,)
3. username: Your estoresms.com account username
4. password: Your estoresms.com account password
5. sender: The sender ID to show on the receiver's phone
6. message: The text message to be sent
7. balance: Set to true only when you want to check your credit balance
6. schedule: Specify this parameter only when you are scheduling an sms for later delivery. It should contain the date the message should be delivered. Supported format is "2009-10-01 12:30:00" i.e "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss"

API configuration: 

Use the following API

HTTP API:
http://otextcity.com/index.php?option=com_spc&comm=spc_api&username=user& 
password=1234&sender=@@sender@@&recipient=@@recipient@@&message=@@message@@&

API response on Success: OK
API Response confirmation: Contains

Account balance API:
http://otextcity.com/index.php?option=com_spc&comm=spc_api&username=user&password=1234&balance=true

API Protocol: HTTP GET


 

The return values are

OK=Successful
-2904=SMS Sending Failed
-2905=Invalid username/password combination
-2906=Credit exhausted
-2907=Gateway unavailable
-2908=Invalid schedule date format
-2909=Unable to schedule
-2910=Username is empty
-2911=Password is empty
-2912=Recipient is empty
-2913=Message is empty
-2914=Sender is empty
-2915=One or more required fields are empty

Example:
On success, the following code will be returned
OK 60 08033885533,08022987722,08055990066

i.e OK[space]no of sms credits used[space]gsm numbers that failed
where 60=no of sms credits used
and 08033885533,08022987722,08055990066 are the 3 numbers that failed