Sending Batch Messages

[vmosoti]

How do we achieve batch sending in cases where there is a unique phone number/message combination?

Something like this:

$sms->send([
        [
            'to' => '0722123456',
            'message' => 'This is a unique message'
        ],
        [
            'to' => '0713678900',
            'message' => 'this is another unique message'
         ],
         [
            'to' => '0712345678',
            'message' => 'even another one'
         ],
]);

What is available is sending a similar message to an array of numbers, or maybe am missing something ...

[codingedward]

I've also hit this issue as $sms->send([...]) is blocking and sending one SMS after another is unacceptable (as it takes close to 1 second).

I've settled for forking the project to implement asynchronous calling of the API, I'll be raising a PR here in a few.

[marvinhosea]

@codingedward did you manage to implement the asynchronous feature

[codingedward]

In fact, I was able to achieve this by changing this part of the doSend function:

https://github.com/codingedward/africastalking-php/blob/de5d551477b5a279eb5efb0f7dba8b9e0d42380b/src/SMS.php#L54-L56