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Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 5844

Unable to send SMS using PHP via malert.in gateway

I am using malert.in as sms gateway. I want to send the details the user entered, but in place of name $name is sent.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>

</head>

<html>
   <body>
    <form action='sms.php' method='post'>
        <div>
            <label for='name'>Name</label>
            <input type='text' name='name' id='name'/>
        </div>
        <div>
            <label for='pnr'>Pnr</label>
            <input type='text' name='pnr' id='pnr'/>
        </div>
        <div>
            <input type='submit' name='send' value='send'/>
        </div>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>


<?php
    if(isset($_POST['send']))
{
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $pnr = $_POST['pnr'];

    header('Location:http://malert.in/new/api/api_http.php?username=uname&password=pass&senderid=Alerts&to=7098765438,9454321121&text=$name%20$pnr%20success&route=Transaction&type=text&datetime=2015-01-23%2015%3A15%3A14');
}
?

Where is the mistake? I checked everything.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 192

Answers (2)

rid
rid

Reputation: 63580

Variables are not expanded inside single quoted strings such as 'text=$name', but only inside double quoted strings like "text=$name". Additionally, if you need to append the string to a URL, you need to also escape it appropriately with urlencode(). You could do something like:

header('Location:' .
  'http://malert.in/new/api/api_http.php' .
    '?username=uname' .
    '&password=pass' .
    '&senderid=Alerts' .
    '&to=7098765438,9454321121' .
    '&text=' . urlencode("$name $pnr success") .
    '&route=Transaction' .
    '&type=text' .
    '&datetime=' . urlencode('2015-01-23 15:15:14'));

Upvotes: 2

Wolfgang Stengel
Wolfgang Stengel

Reputation: 2856

Variables are not evaluated in single quotes. You need to either use double quotes, or add the individual string pieces together:

header('Location: ...&text='.$name.'%20$pnr%20success&route=Tra...');

Upvotes: 1

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