Software developers can add full SMS text messaging functionality to their applications using the text-connect™ HTTP Gateway.

HTTP is the recommended way accessing the text-connect™ service from with in an application.

Sending a SMS from within a application is as simple as generating a HTTP request containing the relevant variables and sending them to the text-connect HTTP gateway in the form of a HTTP POST or HTTP GET

text message forwarding is a standard text-connect™ feature and means that your application can process incoming texts in conjunction with a 'text number'.

Configure text-connect™ to forward messages received on your 'text number' as a HTTP request to your web domain.

When forwarding the following format is used: http://your.url.com/page.ext?source=447...&dest=447...&msg=body

where: source is the senders number, dest is your 'text number' and body is the actual message.

This ability combined with a php / mySQL database gives you huge possibilities for collecting and processing incoming messages.