Introduction
In this post, I will be sharing the experience I had (integrating SMS) during the development of Delight. With the rising usage of mobile devices, statistics have shown that SMS is the most effective way to communicate, especially for all type of businesses. Honestly, SMS integration to a website if you ask me I would say is easy if you want to stick to just one provider no matter what the future brings. However, this was not the case for Delight, we needed solution that won't require us to rewrite the entire procedure in case we find a better offer by other SMS gateway providers in the future.
The SMS gateway provider I would be using for this post is SMSLive (http://smslive247.com). Before you can use their gateway to send SMS, you must sign-up an account with them and create a sub-account that will be used for sending SMS from your application, the account registration is free.
In other to have a better understand of this tutorial, you need the API documentation (optional for this tutorial) which you can download from their website.
Final view of the application.
