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NAME

Net::SMS::PChome - Send SMS messages via the sms.pchome.com.tw service.

SYNOPSIS

  use strict;
  use Net::SMS::PChome;

  my $sms = new Net::SMS::PChome;
     $sms->login('username', 'password', 'auth_code');
     $sms->smsRecipient('0912345678');
     $sms->smsSend("The SMS be send by PChome SMS Service!");

  if($sms->is_success) {
     print "Successfully sent message to ".$sms->successcount." number!\n";
  } else {
     print "Something went horribly wrong!\n".
           "Error: ".$sms->resultmessage." (".$sms->resultcode.")".
  }

or, if you like one liners:

  perl -MNet::SMS::PChome -e 'send_sms("pchome_username", "pchome_password", "auth_code", "recipient", "messages text")'

DESCRIPTION

Net::SMS::PChome allows sending SMS messages via http://sms.pchome.com.tw/

METHODS

new

new creates a new Net::SMS::PChome object.

Options

baseurl

Defaults to http://sms.pchome.com.tw/jsp/smslong.jsp

ua

Configure your own WWW::Mechanize object, or use our default value.

username

Your pchome.com.tw username

password

Your pchome.com.tw password

authcode

Your PChome Micro Payment System authcode

smsMessage

The actual SMS text

smsType

Defaults to 1, but could be set to 2

1 mean send SMS now. 2 mean send SMS at a delivery date.

smsEncode

Defaults to BIG5, but could be set to ASCII

BIG5: the SMS context in Chinese or Engilsh, the max of SMS context length is 70 character. ASCII: the SMS context in Engilsh, the max of SMS context length is 140 character.

smsDeliverydate

smsDeliverydate mean send SMS at a reserved time.

Its format is YYYYMMDDHHII.

Example: 200607291730 (mean 2006/07/29 17:30)

All these options can be set at creation time, or be set later, like this:

  $sms->username('my_username');
  $sms->password('my_password');
  $sms->smsType('2');
  $sms->smsDeliverydate('200608141803');  # Send SMS at 2006/08/14 PM 06:03.

login

Set the username, password and authcode in one go.

  $sms->login('my_pchome_username', 'my_pchome_password', 'my_pchome_authcode');

  # is basically a shortcut for

  $sms->username('my_pchome_username');
  $sms->password('my_pchome_password');
  $sms->authcode('my_pchome_authcode');

Without arguments, it will return the array containing username, password and authcode.

   my ($username, $password, $authcode) = $sms->login();

smsRecipient

Push numbers in the recipients array

  foreach(qw/0912345678 0987654321 0912920542/) {
     $sms->smsRecipient($_);
  }

smsSend

Send the actual message. If this method is called with an argument, it's considered the message. Returns true if the sending was successful, and false when the sending failed (see resultcode and resultmessage).

is_success

Returns true when the last sending was successful and false when it failed.

resultcode

Returns the resulting code.

When LWP::UserAgent reports an error, the resultcode will be set to -999.

resultmessage

Returns the result message, as provided by sms.pchome.com.tw, or LWP::UserAgent.

EXPORT

    send_sms

SEE ALSO

WEBSITE

You can find information about PChome SMS Service at :

   http://sms.pchome.com.tw/

AUTHOR

Tsung-Han Yeh, <snowfly@yuntech.edu.tw>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Tsung-Han Yeh

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.