SMS Settings is the main place where the SMS HTTP API has to be configured.  You can get the SMS HTTP API from your SMS gate way provider.

This API has to be configured in SMS Settings.

Field Definitions:

Settings Name – It can be anything for your reference.

URL Prefix – Enter the exact URL prefix.  In our example, the URL would be “http://api.clickatell.com/http/sendmsg”

Username Variable – Give the URL user variable that stores the user name.  In our example, the URL user variable would be “user”

Username Value – Give the actual value for the URL user variable.  This is the actual username which provided by your SMS gate way provider.  In our example, the value would be “myusername”

Password Variable – Give the URL password variable that stores the password name.  In our example, the URL password variable would be “password”

Password Value – Give the actual password provided by your SMS gate way provider.  The password value will be encrypted and stored in the database.  In our example, the password would be “mypassword”

Destination Address Variable – Give the URL variable for the target or destination address.  In our example, the destination address variable would be “to”

Message Variable – Give the URL message variable.  This is the variable which holds the actual message to be transmitted.  In our example, the message variable would be “text”

Sender Name Variable – Give the URL sender name variable.  This is the variable which hold the ‘from’ name.  In our example, the sender name variable would be “from”

Extra variable names and values– The above variable names and values are the basic settings for SMS HTTP API.  But there may be some additional parameters would be configured for SMS HTTP API.  In our example api_id is an additional parameter which can be configured as follows

Extra1 Variable      -        api_id

Extra1 Value          -        123456

Set Default – You can decide whether this SMS API is default or not.  The default SMS API will be applied while creating a new SMS Account.

Success Pattern – Give the success return message pattern.  The pattern would be in the format of PHP “preg_match”.  In our example, the SMS HTTP API would return ID:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for the success message.  So, it would be “/ID/”

Chars per credit – Define how many number of characters per SMS credit.  Normally 160 characters is standard among most of the SMS providers.  In our example, 160 is the number of characters per credit.