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Avinash

16 Mar, 2010 05:46 PM via web

Hi

I am developing application that sends sms using imified. I need to know whether there is any size limit for the message content and facts related to it.

Awaiting your reply
Avinash K

  1. 2 Posted by Dave Hoff on 16 Mar, 2010 06:03 PM

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    Yes, your sms messages should not be longer than 160 characters (including
    spaces). Currently our system will split the messages and send them out in
    chunks if they are longer, but this functionality will be changing soon.
    Safe way is to limit to 160 chars.

    Dave

  2. 3 Posted by Avinash CITV on 16 Mar, 2010 06:17 PM

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    Dave,

    Thanks for the help.

  3. 4 Posted by Andres on 08 May, 2010 11:30 AM

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    I have a case where some messages exceed 160 characters. When i test it only the first SMS gest to my phone and the rest is truncated. I manually split it in several 160 character messages, but when they arrived in my phone the order had been shuffled and it was impossible to read the message.

    s there a correct way to way to split long messages into shorter ones? What is the best way to deal with long messages?

    Thanks

  4. 5 Posted by alwi on 11 May, 2010 04:12 AM

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    simply add prefix like (1/3) in the beginning of your sms.

    say for example your message has to be split into 3 chunks. add (1/3) in beginning of your first sms, (2/3) in second sms and (3/3) in the last sms.

  5. 6 Posted by Andres on 31 May, 2010 09:24 PM

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    Hi Alwi,

    thanks for the tip. it will definitely help, but has not solved the problem since the SMS messages are not always going out... (really wish I knew why...)
    here is the code I am using:

    if($last == "condition") {

    echo "(1/3) first SMS of 160 characters ";
echo "(2/3) second message of 160 Characters";
echo "(3/3) Last message of remaining Characters";

    }

    Is there a better way so I can specify the order, pauses or automate the situation? I not only think this is a "dirty" solution, but it involves a ton of work in splitting up the messages manually. It also doesn't allow me any room for growth if I want to connect this to a database and have dynamic messages be generated.

    BTW: here is what I was doing before in hopes it would split the message:
    if($last == "condition") {

    echo "Long message of more than 500 characters ";

    }

    THANKS!!!

  6. 7 Posted by mlucas on 18 Oct, 2010 07:37 PM

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    Sorry for the late response regarding your issue. Is this still an issue that you are currently experiencing? I will be monitoring this page for a reply and I look forward to helping resolve this for you.

    -Matt Lucas
    IMified Support

  7. 8 Posted by Avinash Kalarikkal on 19 Oct, 2010 03:51 AM

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    On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:09 AM, mlucas <
    ***@tenderapp.com<tender%***@tenderapp.com>
    > wrote:

    The problem has been resolved. You can close this ticket.

  8. mlucas closed this discussion on 19 Oct, 2010 02:45 PM.

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