NAME
Net::SMS::TxtLocal - Send SMS messages using txtlocal.co.uk
SYNOPSIS
my $txtlocal = Net::SMS::TxtLocal->new(
uname => 'you@domain.com',
pword => 'secret',
from => 'Your Name', # optional
);
# get the current balance
my $balance = $txtlocal->get_credit_balance();
# send a message
$txtlocal->send_message(
{
message => "This is a test message from Net::SMS::TxtLocal",
to => [ '447890123456' ],
}
);DESCRIPTION
This module is a super simple interface to the TxtLocal API which lets you send SMS messages from your code.
ABOUT TXTLOCAL
TxtLocal is a UK based SMS service which lets you send messages to mobiles worldwide. Their website is clean, their pricing reasonable and their API pretty good too.
If you need to create an account and use this link some pennies might flow back into the author's pockets: http://www.txtlocal.co.uk/?tlrx=52009
If this shameless commercialism offends you use this link instead: http://www.txtlocal.co.uk/.
METHODS
new
$txtlocal = Net::SMS::TxtLocal->new(
uname => 'you@domain.com',
pword => 'secret',
from => 'Your Name', # optional
);Create a sender object. uname and pword are required and should be your login to the TxtLocal system.
from is optional and is added to any messages sent.
get_credit_balance
my $credit_balance = $txtlocal->get_credit_balance();Get the credit balance for this account from TxtLocal. This will try to connect to their servers and is a good way to test that the connection is available.
send_message
$bool = $txtlocal->send_message(
{
message => 'the text of the message',
to => ['447890123456'],
}
);Send a message to the numbers given in the array.
PRIVATE METHODS
_make_request
my $response = $txtlocal->_make_request(
{
path => '/path/to/page.php',
query => { foo => 'bar' },
}
);Make a POST request to the TxtLocal servers. The uname and pword will be added to the request and content returned - either as a string or a datastructure.
BUGS
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-net-sms-txtlocal@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.
CONTRIBUTING
The repository for this module is hosted here: http://github.com/evdb/Net-SMS-TxtLocal
Please feel free to fork, make changes and send me a patch :)
AUTHOR
Edmund von der Burg <evdb@cpan.org>
LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2010, Edmund von der Burg <evdb@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.
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