Free clickatell software for linux

Net::SMS::Clickatell is Perl module access to Clickatell SMS messaging service.

SYNOPSIS

use Net::SMS::Clickatell;

my $catell = Net::SMS::Clickatell->new( API_ID => $api_id );
$catell->auth( USER => $user, PASSWD => $passwd );
$catell->sendmsg( TO => $mobile_phone, MSG => Hi, Im using Clickatell.pm );

Clickatell (http://www.clickatell.com) is a commercial service that allows its users to send SMS messages to anyone in the world. This service supports many ways to send messages, for example HTTP, SMTP and SMPP, among others.

Net::SMS::Clickatell provides OO methods that allow to send SMS messages through Clickatell service.

Note that whether this software nor the author are related to Clickatell in any way.

METHODS

new

Creates the Clickatell object.

Usage:

my $catell = Net::SMS::Clickatell->new( API_ID => $api_id );

The complete list of arguments is:

API_ID : Unique number received from Clickatell when an account is created.
UseSSL : Tell Clickatell module whether to use SSL or not (0 or 1).
BaseURL : Default URL used to connect with Clickatell service.
UserAgent : Name of the user agent you want to display to Clickatell service.
auth
Logs in Clickatell service,

Usage:

$catell->auth( USER => $user, PASSWD => $passwd );
where $user and $password are your credentials for Clickatell service.

This method returns 1 or 0 if we logged in or not .

sendmsg

Sends a message trought Clickatell service.

Usage:

$catell->sendmsg( TO => $mobile_phone, MSG => $msg );

where $mobile_phone is the mobile phone number that you wants to sends the message (international format, no leading zeros) and $msg is the messages text.

This method return 1 or 0 if we successfully sent the message or not.
session_id

Set or retrieve a session identificator number. This number is returned by Clickatell service when a user logs in successfully in the service.

Usage:

$catell->session_id(); # Retrieve session identificator number

or

$catell->session_id($sid); # Set session identificator number to $sid
msg_id

Set or retrieve a message identificator number. This number is returned by Clickatell service is a message was successfully sent.

Usage:

$catell->msg_id(); # Retrieve message identificator number

or

$catell->msg_id($mid); # Set message identificator number to $mid

error

Returns a code that describes the last error ocurred.

Example:

if(my $error = $catell->error) {
if($error == 1) {
die("Username or password not definedn");
} elseif ($error == 2) {
die("Username or password invalidn");
} else {
die("Unexpected faultn");
}
}

Complete list of error codes:

0 - No error
1 - Username or password not defined
2 - Username or password wrong
3 - Server has problems
4 - The message couldnt be sent

PlaySMS is a flexible Web-based Mobile Portal System. PlaySMS can be made to fit to various services such as an SMS gateway, personal messaging systems, corporate and group communication tools.
Main features:
- Multiple database engine supported (using PEAR DB)
- Available for shared database usage (tables using its own prefix)
- Send SMS to single mobile phone (web2mobile)
- Send SMS broadcasted (bulk SMS) to a group of mobile phones (web2mobiles)
- Support sending flash and unicode message
- Receive private SMS to Inbox (mobile2web)
- Forward single SMS from mobile phone to a group of mobile phones (mobile2mobiles)
- SMS autoreply, for easy autoreplying formatted incoming SMS
- SMS board, forward received SMS to email,html and/or xml page
- SMS command, execute server side shell script using SMS
- SMS custom, forward incoming SMS to custom SMS application
- SMS poll, manage polling system using SMS
- Simple webservices for sending SMS and retrieving delivery reports (ws.php)
- Create your own gateway module other than Gnokii, Kannel or sms server Clickatell
- Easy webbased control panel

SmsDumper is a Java client for the Clickatell service to send SMSes to GSM mobile phones from the Internet. The subscription to this service is free, and you get 10 free credits at registration. You can then buy more credits to continue tu use the service.

I think this service is quite convenient as the cost of an SMS is generally cheaper than average rates. You can alse set the number of the sender so that the receiver cant see any difference between an SMS sent from this service and one sent from your mobile.

Contact list

The main panel of SmsDumper contains your contact list: you can add contacts, and for each contact, you can set how many mobile numbers you need.

Double-clicking on a number allows you to send SMS messages to the network.

Send Sms to the network

To send an SMS message you must open the "sms" panel.

Here are the fields you use to compose the message: the sender number (you can use alphanumeric characters, but my advice is to set it with your number with the leading +, so the receiver can retrieve your name from his phone book), the destination number (without the leading +), and the message. It will be reported also the contact name if you use a number registered into the contact list.

When you type into the message textarea you can see the message length and the number of concatenated SMS messages.

You can also set the time of delivery selecting with how many minutes of delay send the message.

Setting the messages priority as AUTO the system try to send the message through the lowest cost network: if it fails, it automacally grow up to the next better queue. If you want you can choose manually the queue to use (high, medium or low priority).

Finally if you want to make the message appears immediately on the display of the receiver you can set the Flash message checkbox.

When the form is filled you can send the message.

The "V" button near the "To" field allows you to check if the destination network is covered by the service and the cost of an SMS sent to that network. Remember that it only checks if the network is reachable, not if the number is real!

When you send an SMS you can check the delivery status by clicking on the "Show status of last Sms sent" button.