A new feature has now been built into the SMS gateway, allowing you to specify a contact email address for the sms Gateway and a threshold amount of SMS credits for your account.
Currently this contact email address can be used with a lower threshold of SMS credits, and once the credits in your accounts goes below or matches the threshold the gateway will send a mail to the contact address, alerting that the credits are running low in your account. However, this will only be sent the first time you run low, and will not be sent again until your credits have been above threshold again.
This feature will ensure that your account will never run to 0. This feature is disabled for all existing accounts, so if you want this alert feature enabled, please email me your email address and threshold requirements to smsapi@hostingireland.ie and I will enable this feature for you.
As always, if you have any comments, feedback or suggestions, you can comment below, post on our forum or send an email to smsapi@hostingireland.ie.
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After a suggestion from a user of our gateway, a change has been made to the security module on our gateway, that limits connections by user to a particular IP.
The request was to allow multiple IPs per user, so that several computers can connect to the same account, allowing good security, without lacking usability.
The security module was successfully modified, and now allows several IPs to be authentic for a single user account.
If you would like extra IPs to be added to your accounts security module, send us an email to smsapi@textmessage.ie with the request.
If you have any suggestions for modifications to the API or ways which it could be improved or altered to suit your needs, submit a suggestion in our forum, and if it is feasable we will get to work on it straight away.
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Below is a form submitted by a user of the SMS API (the username and password have been removed from the form of course). But when I saw this form, I thought it would be quite a useful example, to demostrate how simple the API can be interacted with.
<html>
<head>
<title>SMS Sender</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<form action=https://sms.hostingireland.ie method=get>
<table border=0>
<tr>
<td>To:</td>
<input type=hidden name=username value=USERNAME>
<input type=hidden name=password value=PASSWORD>
<td><input type=text name=to></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Message:</td>
<td>
<textarea name=message width=25 height=5>Test Message.
</textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>
<input type=submit value=Send>
</td>
</tr>
</form>
</p>
</body>
</html>
I hope this helps interested users see how quickly the API can be connected to, as always, if you have any questions or would like to send me any feedback, either comment below or submit a post on our Forum
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Occasionally the gateway will respond with a response code that is not documented in our site’s Common API responses.
When this happens the response will be coming directly from the mobile network provider rather than generated from our own gateway, as such this is not something that can be documented.
However, these response codes almost always resolve to the phone number you are trying to send an SMS to, check you are using the correct number, and if it is international number, be sure to take a look at the article on International SMS numbers.
As always, if you have any questions please comment below, or register on our forum.
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