VisualGSM Tutorials / Example applications, VisualGSM Tutorials

We have created some tutorials and example applications for VisualGSM Server:

1. How to Configure Microsoft Exchange SMTP Connector to use VisualGSM Enterprise Server to send SMS.

2. How to configure VisualGSM to conduct a survey, and store the survey results in a database, in just 15 minutes

3. Build an SMS Directory Bot in just 4 hrs (including testing)

4. How to send Group SMS

5. Java Examples to Send SMS, Receive SMS.

6. ASP.NET Examples to Send SMS, Receive SMS.

7. PHP Examples to Send SMS, Receive SMS.

8. How to test your GSM device/SIM card using Hyperterminal

Feel free to post your questions here. :)

Thanks, but do you have java application for the same ??

Is it compulsary to configure Keywords for each SMS function ??

how does my java web application will listen to VisualGSM Call ??

Appreciated if you could reply the same !


Thanks & Regards,
Ahmed.

We don't have a Java example, but the method used is the same as ASP or PHP - you would program your Java application as though it were a web application, but instead of outputting HTML, you output text to be sent as SMS.

VisualGSM will format the SMS request and forward information as such SMS user phone number, SMS Keyword and content to your Java application in the form of a HTTP GET (you can set this up using VisualGSM Manager -> Keyword Tab), and then capture any HTTP GET response from your Java application.

The response can then be forwarded back to the SMS user by SMS. You can also configure VisualGSM such that the response will not be returned by SMS.

A basic flow:

Here are two useful articles on creating a servlet that can handle HTTP GET requests.

http://brajeshwar.com/2008/handling-http-g...-java-servlets/
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/java-servlets-2

It is not necessary to configure every Keyword individually inside VisualGSM Manager. You can create a catch-all Keyword using the name "NOKEYWORD" to capture all SMS messages.

I've attached a screen capture as an example. Click on HELP button for a list of SMS parameters (such as {KEYWORD}, {M}, {M1}, {N}, {PORT}, etc ...) that you can use for your HTTP GET request. You can use the TEST button to test your setup.

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Hi Ahmed, we just created an example in Java - Java SMS script.

Hello,

I have been fooling around with the SMS directory bot scripts and i would like to ask a few questions.

1st of all the script is written in asp, i was wandering if this could easily be converted to php, and if anyone had done this before? My website is in php and i am wandering if there will be a problem with displaying results.

The AspTear - is the dll file necessary, in other words if i am running apache with asp, so i still need to install it in the registry, and will it work on a linux machine?

With the keywords, is it possible to leave out the FIND and just use what ever words are in the sms, ie if some just sms the word John and there is a keyword john, would that work?

If you wanted more than 5 results is that possible, ie if we had an option 6 which revealed more results? 7 - 11 or something.

Regarding the results, my search page reveals a logo, and a few other details, what will the script pick up? how will it know what to return?

I would appreciate any assistance you could give.

regards
Hilton

This example was actually taken from a demo we did to a customer a long time back, so the components used might be outdated.

For Linux, you'll need to use PHP, ASP won't work.

We don't have a PHP equivalent for the directory search script, but you can built it from the PHP example script - http://www.visualgsm.com/tutorial011_send_sms_php.htm (Please see - Example 3:- Setting up VisualGSM Enterprise to forward received SMS messages to your PHP application via HTTP GET)

Would it be possible for you to custom develop something? For me?

Do you have access to the database on the directory? If so, you can make use of SQL Query to directly query the directory database.

Hi
I am looking the PowerBuilder code for visual gsm. Thanks in advance

We don't have powerbuilder examples, but you can send SMS by executing an SQL statement. Please refer to example 1: http://www.visualgsm.com/tutorial_send_sms_aspnet.html

I have a J2ME application which sends sms to GSM modem and visual gsm server passes it to a sevlet, however the response is sent goes to the inbox of the user. I want it to go back to the j2me application. For this i need to send the response back in a particular port on which the j2me application is listening. How can i achieve this with Visual GSM.

This is not possible using VisualGSM at this moment as the SMS needs to be specially encoded.