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This part of the tutorial is probably the most important part of the whole tutorial in sending an sms message using the clickatell api. You will create a page “send.php”, then you copy and paste the php code in this page. The send.php does the following;

1. Authenticates with the Clickatell Gateway
2. Sends the SMS Message
3. Retrieve the apimsgid of the corresponding Text Message
4. Save the SMS Message and its Apimsgid into the Mysql Database

I have put comments at every step of the code so you can identify what is happening at every stage of the code.

send.php

<?php
//*******************************************
//
// Send SMS Message Using Clickatell API - Part 5
// 23rd September 2007
// www.mboateng.com
// Michael Ofori Amanfo Boateng
//
//**********************************************

require_once(’settings.php’);

//retrieve form details
$to = $_POST[’to’];
$from = $_POST[’from’];
$message = $_POST[’message’];

function GetSQLValueString($theValue)
{
$theValue = (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? addslashes($theValue) : $theValue;

return $theValue;
}

//get magic quotes
$message = GetSQLValueString($message);

//url encode message
$message = urlencode($message);

//authenticating user
$url = “$baseurl/http/auth?user=$user&password=$password&”;
$url = $url.”api_id=$api_id&from=$from&concat=2″;
$ret = file($url);

// split our response. return string is on first line of the data returned
$sess = split(”:”,$ret[0]);
if ($sess[0] == “OK”) {
$sess_id = trim($sess[1]); // remove any whitespace

// url for sending message
$url = “$baseurl/http/sendmsg?session_id=$sess_id&”;
$url = $url.”to=$to&text=$message&from=$from&”;
$url = $url.”callback=3&deliv_ack=1&concat=2″;

// send message
$ret = file($url);
$send = split(”:”,$ret[0]);
if ($send[0] == “ID”){

// apimsgid
$apimsgid = trim($send[1]);

// insert message with its corresponding apimsgid into the table
mysql_select_db($database_conn, $conn);
$sql = “insert into tbl_outbox (sender,recipient,message,dated,apimsgid ) values (’$from’,'$to’,'$message’,now(),’$apimsgid’) “;
$result = mysql_query($sql, $conn) or die(mysql_error());

// redirect to sent.php when message is correctly sent
echo “<script language=\”JavaScript\”>”;
echo ” location.href = ’sent.php’; “;
echo “</script>”;
}
else{

// this portion is for message sending failure
echo “<script language=\”JavaScript\”>”;
echo ” location.href = ‘failed.php’; “;
echo “</script>”;

}
} else {

// this portion checks for correct authentication
echo “<script language=\”JavaScript\”>”;
echo ” location.href = ‘badlogin.php’; “;
echo “</script>”;
}

?>

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