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The Forward SMS function enables users to receive SMS sent by their own customers/clients directly on their mobile phone. All the SMS that will arrive to the number provided by SmsHosting can be:
• Visualized through a control panel function
• Forwarded to your own web portal through an HTTP GET request

Users will be able to answer to received SMS, insert sender numbers in their online phone book or delete messages with a single click from the control panel.

The basic service uses a shared SIM to receive messages: to identify SMS relating to your account it will be so necessary to set a word key with which all messages will have to begin.

A practical example
If you want to receive on the web portal www.the_football_club_site.com messages from supporters with comments on the city football team matches, the service could be configured in the following way:
• Key: <football club name>
• Url: www.the_football_club_site.com/receive.php

The user must create the file “receive.php” that will have to be able to manipulate an HTTP request. Of course “receive.php” is only an example of dynamic pages that could be also jsp pages, asp pages, etc.
In particular, the HTTP request will pass to the page the following parameters:
• Number: that contains the sender number for the message
• Text: that contains the message text, without the key word (that is the first word of the SMS);

Any supporter will be able to send his comment by writing on his mobile phone a message like “<football club name> the team played bla bla bla…” and consequently the system will make an HTTP request like the following:
http://www.the_football_club_site.it/receive.php?number=3931234567&text=the team played bla bla bla

Possible uses
With the Forward SMS service it is possible to:
• Realize sms polls
• Realize contests
• Receive information requests
• Cause (oppure “organize” o “start”, a seconda dell’accezione di evento) events based on received SMS
• Do a lot more…