Wegus infotech SMS Gateway

If you want to send bulk sms to your users through API, then you can send it using dedicated SMS gateway via HTTP Protocol. The HTTP API can be used to send various type of SMS messages including Long text messages or Short text messages. I am writing this blog which will help you to understand the use of sms gateway through HTTP API for template messaging. Using template messaging, messages can be sent on DND numbers.

Note: HTTP url will do 300 request per second at a time.

API Parameters

Username: username

At the time of registration on Wegus Infotech, user is free to choose his/her username but it should be unique. User parameter can not be more than 30 characters long and it should contain alphabets and numbers only without blank or special characters.

Password: password

At the time of registration user is free to choose his password. Password can not be more than 30 characters long and it should contain alphabets and numbers only without blank or special characters.

Senderid: senderid

Senderid refers to the Alphanumeric Identity of the Sender. For India an alphanumeric sender-id (of maximum 8 characters) is accepted. The sender Id registration is subject to the TRAI regulations. Please read the details on the TRAI website. WEGUS has the authority to reject any
Sender Id (s) without prior intimation to the user to respect and adhere the DOT / TRAI mandate.

Mobile Number: dest_mobileno

This parameter indicates destination mobile number to which sms will be sent. It must include country code appended before the mobile number. If there is any error in the parameter value then the message will not be sent to the respected destination mobile number. The mobile number should contain only number and no symbol like '+' or '-' etc.

Template ID: tempid

This parameter  refers to a template id which is a specific number assigned to a particular template. This template id is unique for any particular template. You need to contact Wegus Infotech for creating your demo template message. Template refers to the message here which will be provided by you. For example: Template for Registration should look like:

"Dear Amuk Saxena, thank you for registering with us. Your email id is amukmca@gmail.com and password is abcd. Please login to www.yourdomain.com/login."

FIELD BOX:-F1, F2,etc.

This parameter refers to the field boxes added in the template. Each field box will hold only 30 characters which represent dynamic values. For example:

"Dear (F1), thank you for registering with us. Your email id is (F2) and password is (F3). Please login to www.yourdomain.com/login."

Here F1, F2, and F3 denotes dynamic values to be passed to the API

Responseid: response

The default parameter is Y. This filed returns the schedule id with date of SMS submission.

Message

Below API is used for template messaging. With template messaging, messages can be sent to DND registered numbers.

http://123.63.33.43//blank/sms/user/urlsmstemp.php?username=XXXX&pass=XXXX&senderid=XX
XX&dest_mobileno=XXXXXXXXXX&tempid=XX&F1=XXXX&F2=XXXX&F3=XXXX&response=Y

http://123.63.33.43/blank/sms/user/urlsmstemp.php?username=wegus&pass=wegus@123&senderid=I
WEGUS&dest_mobileno=9986982227&tempid=36890&F1=XXXX&F2=XXXX&F3=XXXX&response=Y

Check Balance

Information to get SMS credit balance, following URL, along with required parameters, need to be accessed:

http://123.63.33.43/blank/sms/user/balance_check.php?username=XXXX&pass=XXXX

Change Password

If you need to change the password, following URL is given below:

http://123.63.33.43/blank/sms/user/change_password.php?username=XXXX&oldpassword=XXXX&newpassword=XXXX

Reports

After each request is made, response ID is generated. The same request can be posted for collecting the DLR's.The URL for collecting the DLR's:

http://123.63.33.43/blank/sms/user/response.php?Scheduleid=2126-2010_12_23

List of Return Value When HTTP Request is made:

Now lets have a look on the following code which will be used to send sms using Cakephp:

Create function for sending sms, using curl you need to send request to the API:

protected function send_sms($senderId=null,$mobileno=null,$templateId=null, $data=array()){

$url = "http://123.63.33.43/blank/sms/user/urlsmstemp.php?username=SanjayO&pass=123456&senderid=XXX&dest_mobileno=xxxxxxxxxx&tempid=xxxx&F1=Amuk%20&F2=Thanks%20for%20registering%20with%20us&F3=amukmca@gmail.com&F4=password&F5=abcd&response=Y";
            
            // create a new cURL resource
            $ch = curl_init();

            // set URL and other appropriate options
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

            // grab URL and pass it to the browser
            $output=curl_exec($ch);
            
            // close cURL resource, and free up system resources
            curl_close($ch);
            
            return $output;
        }

For more details of pricing you can go to Wegus Infotech

Thanks for reading.