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Yasser Lotfy
Yasser Lotfy

Reputation: 1

CURL POSTFIELDS to contain "&" character

I have working SMS sending over gateway using CURL method. But If I include this character "&" in my message text area, it will send the message before this character only.

So how I could fix it to send messages including this character normally.

here is my code:

$from = "Gateway_username"; // SMS username
$token = "Gateway_password"; // SMS password
$option = $_REQUEST["option"];
$text = $_REQUEST["BulkSMS1__messageTextBox"];

if ($text == "") { } else {

    $url = "http://awaljawaly.awalservices.com.sa:8001/Send.aspx";
    $postfields = array ("REQUESTTYPE" => "SMSSubmitReq",
    "Username" => "$from", "Password" => "$token", "MOBILENO" => "$d_mobile", "MESSAGE" => "$text");

    if (!$curld = curl_init()) {
    echo "Could not initialize cURL session.";
    exit;
    }
    curl_setopt($curld, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($curld, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
    curl_setopt($curld, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curld, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $output = curl_exec($curld);
    curl_close ($curld);
    preg_match("/(.*)/",$output, $out);
}

This is a sample message:

Our Address: H&R Center.

Thanks in advance.

I have used this to fix my issue:

$text = str_replace('&', '%26', $_REQUEST["BulkSMS1__messageTextBox"]);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 997

Answers (3)

Yasser Lotfy
Yasser Lotfy

Reputation: 1

I have used this to fix my issue:

$text = str_replace('&', '%26', $_REQUEST["BulkSMS1__messageTextBox"]);

Upvotes: 0

bparise
bparise

Reputation: 4019

See urlencode() -> http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

<?php
$text = urlencode($_REQUEST["BulkSMS1__messageTextBox"]);
?>

Upvotes: 1

James Lalor
James Lalor

Reputation: 1246

You would want to encode the characters:

http://www.clockworksms.com/blog/the-gsm-character-set/

With this, try using: 

utf8_encode()

The reason for this is that you're encoding for a mobile device, not a website, so using url encode will not work, compared to utf8 encode.

Upvotes: 1

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