” We   looked  at  a  number of  API  suppliers,  but  1609SMS  was  the 1st  to  meet  all  our requirements: 1)  the API  features gave  me the  functionality  that I needed 2) it was easy to integrate 3) cost effective and 4) the services was reliable– a 100% uptime guarantee and the quality of their large clients was reassuring, especially  in a  market with a lot of ‘fly-by-night’ providers. Their technical support has also been very good. - Josh Bauer,  Aganor B.V.

With a 1609SMS IP-SMS account, you get the powerful middleware available through the advanced 1609SMS Message Gateway, to connect directly to the power stations of premium European Mobile operators. This allows you to create sms messages from any existing application (with Internet connection) or website,  simply by posting a http request to the 1609sms server or otherwise by using the module to send individual or group messages using our client platform. The request is verified and you receive a response from the 1609SMS server. Creating and unlocking SMS messages from your existing applications has never been so easy and fast. Through our gateways you can very easily integrate your existing management software with our services and for example encode your password, with SHA-1 encoding for extra security. Of course you can also link a virtual number to our systems, receive incoming text messages, and create automatic respons actions.

Summary:

• SMS messages that can be generated over the http-protocol

• Enrich and unlock (Web) applications with SMS

• Suitable for all programming languages and scripts     PHP example

Some applications for IP-SMS

• Planning or inventory systems linked to SMS. Inform your customers real-time with SMS on the status of orders.

• SMS service to make your site more interactive: Think about driving directions, contact information and the latest news by SMS.

• Streamline internal business processes, Confirm appointments for your sales team, make important announcements, and receive notifications when servers are down etc...

• Clientele that use the 1609SMS Gateway API are for example :

◘ Address the URL :

The 1609SMS message gateway is connected with many European SMSC-Gateway stations, so a good Quality of Service (availability, capacity and speed) is available. The most common method of passing messages through our gateway, wether to send or receive, is through the HTTP GET / POST protocol.

Through an HTTP request (GET or POST) , our gateway can be connected to your private software application.

http://217.19.227.48/module/gateway.php?clientuser=USERNAME&clientpwd=PASSWORD&message=MESSAGE&to=TO&sender=SENDER

(simple test) - When you copy the above string to a browser, enter your Username and Password, you can easily send bulk/group sms messages over URL. When you ad 44762345678,4476612345677, only seperated by a comma, you're sending to multiple mobile numbers. Open your   test account to give this a try.

For more information on sending or receiving text messages ?

You must always encode the above url before you send, as it should not contain spaces
Example : message=this is a test , this should be : message=this%20is%20a%20test
When using PHP, there is a simple function for this : urlencode($url);
This must be done for the sendername as well, in case you want to use spaces or other special characters !

UTF-8 (8- bit Unicode Transformation Format) is one way to Unicode/ISO 10646-save characters as a stream of bytes, a so called character encoding. UTF-8 is a character encoding with a variable length: not every character uses the same amount of bytes. Depending on the character, between 1 and 4 bytes are being used. Because many Western characters only take 1 byte, UTF-8 is more compact for western languages. When you send via our gateway(s), make sure that your message (message) and the sender name (sender) is UTF-8 encoded. You can also easily test UTF8 encoding on this page:  http://www.hypergurl.com/urlencode.html ;  Note: switch encoding to UTF8, not ASCII

The 1609SMS gateway supports the use of alphanumeric senders (letters and / or numbers). Instead of a phonenumber the recipient of the text message sees - up to 11 characters - as the sender id.

Programming language	Name	Explanation
PHP	Fsockopen	This is where you can find information on, a PHP function to address a url.
PHP	Urlencode	Here you can find information on urlencode, a PHP function for  encoding a url.
VB.net	easyHTTP	This is where you can find information on addressing the gateway via VB.net

A PHP example

PHP example

For a working PHP example :

If your message wasn't send successfully, the gateway will provide you with an error + nr. in return. Here you can find a list of errors:

In order to receive the delivery reports, always use the parameter "delivery=yes". You will receive the answer OK + nr in return . Example OK 1234567

On this page you can retrieve the status :

http://217.19.227.48/module/gatewayrapport.php?smsid=1234567

The system provides a code in return according to the status of the message.

You can also retrieve the number of remaining credits to the gateway:

http://217.19.227.48/module/gateway.php?clientuser=USERNAME&clientpwd=PASSWORD&action=credits

This will return a certain number : example 476
This is the number of credits still remaining in your sms account.

Of course you can contact us if you have problems with the implementation of our gateway in your scripts. Send your questions / scripts to php-support@1609sms.com

To further test our gateway and unlock messages from your existing applications, open a test-account , and you will receive your username and password via email to be used as identification data to connect your scripts.

Or, contact us via chat, by clicking the live support button below.