Transactional message

The BulkGate\Sms\Message class represents the object of the SMS message, which consists of the content of the message and the recipient.

use BulkGate\Sms\Message;

Recipient

The class accepts as the first argument a phone number that can be entered by a string:

$message = new Message('447971700001', 'test message');

or accepts an instance of the object Message\PhoneNumber:

$message = new Sms\Message(new Message\PhoneNumber('447971700001'), 'test message');

You can also enter the phone number after creating an instance of the object using the method phoneNumber($phone_number, $iso = null):

$message = new Sms\Message();

$message->phoneNumber('447971700001');  // řetězec
$message->phoneNumber('7971700001', BulkGate\Sms\Country::UNITED_KINGDOM);  // The option with filling international prefix
$message->phoneNumber(new Message\PhoneNumber('447971700001'));

To obtain a phone number, you can use the method getPhoneNumber(), which always returns an instance of the Message\PhoneNumber object.

/** @var Message\PhoneNumber $phone_number */
$phone_number = $message->getPhoneNumber();

Text of the message

The second parameter is the input of the text of the message. There are also 2 options where the first is to enter text using a string, and the other is an instance of the class Message\Text.

$message = new Message(
        new Message\PhoneNumber('447971700001'), 
        new Message\Text('test message')
);

Of course, you can define text even after creating an instance of an object using the method text($text, array $variables = [])

$message = new Sms\Message();
$message->phoneNumber('447971700001');  // string

$message->text('test message'); // string

$message->text(new Message\Text('test message')); 

$message->text(
    'Hello <first_name> <last_name>', [
        'first_name' => 'John', 
        'last_name' => 'Doe'
    ]); // filling variables; the output is "Hello John Doe"

You can use the getText() method, to retrieve the message text, which always returns an instance of the Message\Text object.

/** @var Message\Text $text */
$text = $message->getText();

JSON Support

The BulkGate\Sms\Message object implements the \JsonSerializable interface that lets you convert it via the json_encode() to JSON format.

/** @var BulkGate\Sms\Message $message */
$message = new Message('447971700001', 'test message');

echo json_encode($message);

The output is:

{
  "number": {
    "number": "447971700001",
    "iso": null
  },
  "text": "test message"
}

Convert to string

The BulkGate\Sms\Message object implements the magic method __string()

/** @var BulkGate\Sms\Message $message */
$message = (string) $message; // into the variable
echo $message; // to the output

The output is:

447971700001: test message

Convert to array

/** @var BulkGate\Sms\Message $message */
$array = $message->toArray();

Fluent interface

Fluent interface is the technique of chaining methods.

$message = new Sms\Message();

$message->phoneNumber('447971700001')
        ->text('test message');

Information after posting

After you send the message, you can get the price, status, and the message id from the message.

$id = $message->getId();  // message id
$status = $message->getStatus(); // status
$price = $message->getPrice(); // price
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