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Perl

Send SMS Text Message to Phone Number

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Uses Amazon SNS to send an SMS text message to a phone number.

See SNS Publish for more information.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();

# Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
# such as https://sns.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
$bTls = 1;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("sns.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);

# Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
$authAws = chilkat::CkAuthAws->new();
$authAws->put_AccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY");
$authAws->put_SecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY");
# the region should match our URL above..
$authAws->put_Region("us-west-2");
$authAws->put_ServiceName("sns");

$rest->SetAuthAws($authAws);

$rest->AddQueryParam("Action","Publish");
# ----------------------------------------------------
# Please use your own phone number here for testing...
# ----------------------------------------------------
$rest->AddQueryParam("PhoneNumber","+15551239999");
$rest->AddQueryParam("Message","This is a test message from Amazon SNS");

$responseXml = $rest->fullRequestNoBody("GET","/");
if ($rest->get_LastMethodSuccess() != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
if ($rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
    print "response status code = " . $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() . "\r\n";
    print "response status text = " . $rest->responseStatusText() . "\r\n";
    print "response header: " . $rest->responseHeader() . "\r\n";
    print "response body: " . $responseXml . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Examine the successful XML response.
$xml = chilkat::CkXml->new();
$xml->LoadXml($responseXml);
print $xml->getXml() . "\r\n";

# To get the MessageId
print "MessageId: " . $xml->chilkatPath("PublishResult|MessageId|*") . "\r\n";

# A sample successful response:
# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
# <PublishResponse xmlns="http://sns.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-03-31/">
#     <PublishResult>
#         <MessageId>5ffca506-6ff6-502c-bca3-f098971bcb9c</MessageId>
#     </PublishResult>
#     <ResponseMetadata>
#         <RequestId>6c815022-050e-5930-a7b4-05bcfde35280</RequestId>
#     </ResponseMetadata>
# </PublishResponse>