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| Daniel Tok New member Username: Dantok Post Number: 5 Registered: 02-2009 |
I`m creating a script in PHP using your default codes. When using this. $x = sendSMS(); echo $x; It works, and it outputs the details of the sent message. HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-type: text/html Expires: Tue, 01 Jan 1980 1:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache Message Submitted Continue MessageID=499DBC2D.req, Recipient=+65933xxx Is it possible to extract the MessageID and the Recipient Data and insert it into a MySQL Database? If so? How, What variables can i use when it returns the value, all help would be lovely and useful  | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 7753 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Daniel, Parsing out that information is relatively simple. Let me give you an example. First, I'm going to write a simple helper function that we're going to use for parsing. It looks for a substring ($needle) within a string ($haystack). If it finds the substring, then it truncates the string so that the substring is not included. Here's the function:
The SendSMS function returns the HTTP response. In the example script, it is returned in a variable $x. Here's some sample code to parse the MessageID and Recipient values from $x:
The code is relatively simple, we're parsing the response line by line, looking for the "MessageID=" responses. For each one that we find, we're parsing the values out into two separate variables: $msgidString and $recipString. In the example, we're just echoing them ... in your code, you would use them to update a database. Hope that helps. -bn | |||
| Daniel Tok New member Username: Dantok Post Number: 6 Registered: 02-2009 |
Hey mate, Thanks for the code Tested it and it works perfectly. However, i need to understand this code better, the portion below, that i have pasted, what does it do? It's just a checker to see if the Message ID exists? Perhaps you could put some more comments for that part of the code, so i can understand better what it does ;) Thanks in advance thou =) while ($x) { $x = strstr ($x, "MessageID="); if ($x) { $msgidString = substr ($x, 0, strpos($x,"\r\n")); if (!$msgidString) $msgidString = $x; $recipString = strstr ($msgidString, "Recipient="); if ($recipString) { $x = strstr ($x, "\r\n"); | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 7754 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Daniel, Basically what the code is doing is looping through the response, parsing out each "MessageID=" / "Recipient=" pair. It's a little extra tough to read, because I can't easily indent lines of code for readability here. Each pass through the loop, the $x variable keeps progressing through the response. It's easiest to look at that logic by focusing on each time $x gets updated. $x = strstr ($x, "MessageID="); $x now points to the next occurrence of "MessageID=" in the response, or it is NULL. "if ($x)" tests if it is non-NULL and performs actions only if it is not NULL ... meaning that we found another occurrence of "MessageID=". Before the close of the "if ($x)" condition, we do "$x = strstr ($x, "\r\n")" to move $x to the next line break, so that it is no longer pointing to the "MessageID=" string that we are processing. We can then re-enter the loop to find the next occurrence. What else should I explain? $msgidString = substr ($x, 0, strpos($x,"\r\n")); This creates a new string, $msgidString which contains the contents of $x up to the next line break. So essentially, $msgidString now contains "MessageID=xxxxxxx.req, Recipient=#####", while $x contains this string plus the rest of the HTTP response. if (!$msgidString) $msgidString = $x; The above should never happen, as the previous line of code should have set $msgidString. I'm just in a habit of extra unnecessary error handling. $recipString = strstr ($msgidString, "Recipient="); The above parses out the part of the string that starts with "Recipient=", so that $recipString will now contain "Recipient=#####". That should fill in the blanks. It's probably easiest to explain with an example. Let's say you submit a message to 2 recipients, and you get this response: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-type: text/html Expires: Tue, 01 Jan 1980 1:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache Message Submitted Continue MessageID=499DBC2D.req, Recipient=+65933xxx MessageID=499DBC23.req, Recipient=+65934xxx After this statement is executed the first time: $x = strstr ($x, "MessageID="); $x now has the following value: MessageID=499DBC2D.req, Recipient=+65933xxx MessageID=499DBC23.req, Recipient=+65934xxx After this statement is executed: $msgidString = substr ($x, 0, strpos($x,"\r\n")); $msgidString = "MessageID=499DBC2D.req, Recipient=+65933xxx" After this statement is executed: $recipString = strstr ($msgidString, "Recipient="); $recipString = "Recipient=+65933xxx" The inner logic then further parses those strings so that: $msgidString = "499DBC2D" $recipString = "+65933xxx" When you get down to here: $x = strstr ($x, "\r\n"); Now $x is modified to skip to the end of the current line, $x contains a line break followed by the next line of the HTTP response: MessageID=499DBC23.req, Recipient=+65934xxx Hopefully that makes more sense. -bn | |||
