Question

Below is my code, after searching and working all night, I finally figured how to make it send an sms. The problem is that I can’t leave spaces in the body message and it does not display the value of $smsmessage.

extract($_POST);

$smsmessage1 = "This is the sms that will be sent";
$smsmessage = urlencode($smsmessage1);

//set POST variables
$url = 'http://www.mysmsgateway.com/bulksms/bulksms.php?username=[e-mail]&password=123456789&message=$smsmessage&mobile=2348035081907&sender=Boss';
$fields = array();

//url-ify the data for the POST
foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
rtrim($fields_string,'&');

//open connection
$ch = curl_init();

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$fields_string);

//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);

//close connection
curl_close($ch); 

The above codes sends the message but will output $smsmessage instead of fetching the value of $smsmessage from above.

Answer 1

You’re using single quotes for specifying $url, which means the $smsmessage won’t be interpreted.

You’ll need to use double quotes instead:

$url = "http://www.mysmsgateway.com/bulksms/bulksms.php?username=[e-mail]&password=123456789&message=$smsmessage&mobile=2348035081907&sender=Boss";

For more information about the difference between the two, see PHP: Strings from the PHP manual.