I am using the google checkout api to process orders in an online store that i am building.
i ran into an issue today that i cannot move past! oi i am getting such a huge headache from this! So here is the problem:
when i send google an xml-based order, they send me back a grip of information that looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<checkout-redirect xmlns="http://checkout.google.com/schema/2"
serial-number="981283ea-c324-44bb-a10c-fc3b2eba5707">
<redirect-url>
https://checkout.google.com/view/buy?o=shoppingcart&shoppingcart=8572098456
</redirect-url>
</checkout-redirect>
I have been able to use this in the past, and i have just passed in <merchant-private-data> tags in my order request to specify unique orders. i just use the redirect-url above to send them to a page where they complete their order, and google sends me a notification with a serial-number. I pass back the serial-number along with my merchant_id and merchant_key and they send me back a bunch of xml with my order data.
I have already gotten my application working like this. the problem is that now i am trying to make my application so that you can plug in your google merchant id and key and my application will handle the order processing for you. the problem here is that when they send me the serial number in the notification, I don't know which merchant-key or merchant-id to send back to them. And now we have come full-circle to the basis of my question, which is this:
what is this serial-number that google is sending me??? it is definitely not the serial number that the notification api is sending me (unless i have to decode somehow?). Google gives no explanation in their documentation about this and all of the other questions regarding it can be answered by simply using merchant-private-data tags.
Please somebody! some wizard out there! Please help me!!!
The serial number is only relevant to a specific merchant - based on your post, you can equate this to a "specific callback api url" (in serial number notification).
If/when you ask a merchant to give you their mid/key, you'll have to provide them (merchant) the (unique) url they have to provide to Google.
So the "relationship" will be "mid/key/callback api url".
Hth.
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I'm new comer in mobile value added service field. I searched & read other company's presentation for mobile value added service with sms platform. But I can't find the right way. I don't know where to start, which platform or server should use for it. I will explain road map first. I will provide content with sms. If you wanna get the contents from me, you need to subscribe first. Then, I will sent contents to all subscribed numbers daily. Then, I will charge for content daily. Please help me which platform or server should I use?
You can use a short code for that, in which country are you in?
I need to use twilio call masking similar to how uber does. I need to grab and available number and attach it to a transaction for a period of time. I got basic TwimXML working to deliver a message but how do I connect two numbers on the fly?
I'm working in iOS and Android with Parse.com serving as a temporary back end. Since these are mobile applications I'm hoping to use the native telephone and messaging applications.
My assumption is that I need to grab a number from the number pool. Assign a forwarding number to it. And return that number to my application in the success block of the promise. Then send that number to the telephone/message app. The part I'm not sure about is how to set up a forwarding number on my Twilio number with the rest api.
Any direction here would be greatly appreciated.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
Your assumptions are mostly correct, but as you point out, you're missing the bit about assigning the forwarding number.
If you've used TwiML to reply to an incoming message you are on the way though.
What you need is an endpoint that you can set as the Voice URL for the number you purchase through Twilio. With that endpoint you need to return TwiML that forwards the call onto the right number. That TwiML would look a bit like this:
<Response>
<Dial>
<Number>ONWARD_NUMBER</Number>
</Dial>
</Response>
In order to return that TwiML, you would need to set up a relationship in your database between the two users' phone numbers and the Twilio phone number such that when you receive a call from one of the numbers to the Twilio number, you can look up the other number in the database and use that in the forwarding TwiML.
That is a brief description of how this is supposed to work. There is a longer description of how to achieve this sort of system in our Masked Phone Numbers tutorial. Sadly the tutorial is not currently available in Node.js, but if you read through the instructions you should be able to follow the flow of the application.
Let me know if this helps at all.
I am making an event organisation platform. Whenever user creates an event, the candidate gets an email notification as well as sms notification asking whether the suggested time fits or not. The problem is that since it is event organisation, there may be more than one occurance of candidate's mobile phone. So I need to have some unique information to identify to which event candidate is responding to.
I have tried identify using Message SID, but then I realised that Message SID is different on reply message.
So my question would be: is there any way to authenticate to which message candidate is replying to?
Hi Twilio developer evangelist here.
Because every message is idempotent, you wouldn't be able to track them just via the call sid. however, there's way to get around that such as passing a code that goes with each message which you can then read, or using cookies.
I think you are probably going to be more successful using cookies, and luckily enough there is an article on twilio's website that describes just how to do that. And because I noticed you're using PHP, I'm pointing you directly to the PHP article on tracking SMS conversations.
Hope this helps you
When I send a test sms from https://www.twilio.com/user/account/developer-tools/api-explorer/message-create with a predefined friendly name, it doesnt apear on my phone. I only see the number.
-if this isnt possible, do you know other providers with this function that work?
[UPDATE]: Twilio now supports this feature.
You can now send messages from an alphanumeric sender ID using Twilio. I wrote up a blog post on how you can achieve this in Ruby and you can check out this article on how to get started with an alphanumeric sender ID on Twilio for more of an overview. Then check out the documentation on how to send an SMS message from an alphanumeric ID.
[UPDATE] Previous answer is below.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You're absolutely right, the friendly name defined in your account is actually for your uses only and is not intended to appear in place of the number when sending an SMS. We have a few reasons for this, which might be interesting to you depending on your use case.
I don't have a particular company that I can recommend that does allow you to do this. A Google search might help though.
There is a ton of data on this subject where you simply take the phone-number+#mobile-carrier.com and send a message, that is not what I am looking to do.
I want to send an SMS, from the command line, in this case, using php, but I would be happy to use bash, and will probably make it into an app or plug in for Safari eventually. Right now, a test case would suit me fine.
I would like to do something like this:
./sms 619-555-1212 "this is the message"
I don't need to receive the message back to the computer, this is a sending only agent.
The criteria that makes all the data I find on this not work, is that I want my correct from: number to show up. I have tried using the email gateway method and changing he from: headers, but it appears they are stripped at the gateway.
I don't mind paying a service to give me certain amount of SMS credits to make this happen. I want to avoid any hardware, where I would have to get a modem or otherwise to connect to my computer.
If I do use a service, something with an example of how to do so within their API would greatly appreciated. I feel this should take me no more than 15 minutes, but I am hours into research and not getting very far with all the little scripts out there that do nothing close to what I want to do.
Thank you very much and sorry that I don't understand this protocol to the best of my ability.
You can send with Twilio using cURL very easily since sending SMS is a simple POST request with three parameters. Here's an example of a bash script that makes calls but could be modified to use the SMS API instead. http://labs.twilio.com/bash/
(I work at Twilio)
you will need sms gateway like http://www.clickatell.com/ for that
You can use any gateway that charges you a few cents for every message sent. They have a simple REST API which requires a very little coding. They even provide you a sample example to get started.