Sending SMS with Amazon AWS services PHP

Question

I'm having trouble digging through the documentation for Amazon's AWS PHP-sdk.

Basically, I just need to send a standard text message to a number. I know it is possible because amazon allows you to send messages through the console directly via this screen:

It says something about using the "publish" method, but looking through that documentation really didn't provide any answers. #Publish documentation link

Any help or guidance is appreciated. I am currently looking for a solution that uses V2 of the sdk.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

No where have a doc showing it to use with PHP. Reading the Java and C# sdk I wrote the PHP version that works.

Updated on dec 20 '18

The args passed to publish method now have a new format. Fixed!

How to send a SMS over AWS using PHP

First install aws/aws-sdk-php. Using composer:

composer require aws/aws-sdk-php

Create a php file with:

require './vendor/autoload.php';
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", 1);

$params = array(
    'credentials' => array(
        'key' => 'YOUR_KEY_HERE',
        'secret' => 'YOUR_SECRET_HERE',
    ),
    'region' => 'us-east-1', // < your aws from SNS Topic region
    'version' => 'latest'
);
$sns = new \Aws\Sns\SnsClient($params);

$args = array(
    "MessageAttributes" => [
                'AWS.SNS.SMS.SenderID' => [
                    'DataType' => 'String',
                    'StringValue' => 'YOUR_SENDER_ID'
                ],
                'AWS.SNS.SMS.SMSType' => [
                    'DataType' => 'String',
                    'StringValue' => 'Transactional'
                ]
            ],
    "Message" => "Hello World! Visit www.tiagogouvea.com.br!",
    "PhoneNumber" => "FULL_PHONE_NUMBER"
);


$result = $sns->publish($args);
echo "<pre>";
var_dump($result);
echo "</pre>";

The result must have one array with many data, including MessageId.