Generating SMS Messages

Once you have your gateway defined, it is time to write your first SMS application and start sending some text messages. For the time being, let's put this in a test file:

 <cfscript>         msg = structNew();          msg.command = "submit";          msg.destAddress = "5551234";          msg.shortMessage = "Hi from ColdFusion!";            ret = sendGatewayMessage("Helpdesk - 5551212", msg);  </cfscript> 

It is nice to note that this will work and send out our text message even though we have not written any code inside our gateway CFC yet.

One of the benefits of the SMS gateway over the IM gateway is the ability to send the same message to multiple people. There is an additional submit command called 'submitMulti' which will allow you to create a message that will go to multiple users:

 <cfscript>          destAddress = ArrayNew(1);         ArrayAppend(destAddress,"[phone]");         ArrayAppend(destAddress,"[phone]");         ArrayAppend(destAddress,"[phone]");                  msg = structNew();          msg.command = "submitMulti";          msg.destAddresses = destAddress;          msg.shortMessage = "Hi from ColdFusion!";            ret = sendGatewayMessage("Helpdesk - 5551212", msg);  </cfscript> 

NOTE

The gateway will only accept the destination addresses as an array, so you will need to convert any database queries to an array.