Sending and Receiving Messages using PHP and GoogleVoice

Sending

After reading two articles in Arvin Castro’s blog: XHTTP and Google Voice SMS using PHP I decided that it would great if I could take it all that and put it into a one usable PHP class with a simple API. This way I am now able to send text messages through Google Voice within my other projects.

The API of the Google Voice class is pretty simple:

// Connects to Google Voice servers
public function connect($email, $password)
// Sends a text message
public function send($number, $message)
// Validates if a given $text is a US phone number
public function checkPhone($text)
Download class.gvoice.php source code

Receiving

After a litte more thinking I figure out a way to receive messages from Google Voice too. All you need to do is set up forwarding and you are pretty much set.
- In Google Voice website go to Voice settings, then set Text Forwarding to forward text messages to your email (you can add another email using “Add a new email address” link next to Voicemail notifications).
- Once you do this, every text message you receive will be sent to you by email. Next step, is to set up a Forwarder with your web host (or your personal server) to pipe all the email (specified above) to a PHP script (receive.php attached with this post). Example pipe could be:

| /usr/local/bin/php /full/path/to/receive.php
- Modify receive.php to match your needs.

Download receive.php source code