This articles illustrates how the SMS FoxBox save the SMS in a text file format The SMS file format is a text file composed of two parts:
- The header
- The message |
This two parts are separated by a carriage return.
An easy SMS example is:
From: SMSFoxBox
To: 3934947XXX
Alphabet: ISO
Text of the short message |
Each Header line has a meaning as shown in the table below:
| | GENERIC HEADERS | | From
| Sender identification, usefull for logged in user identification (outgoing messages)
| | To | Receivers phone number, the number should be specified in international format without the +. | | Flash | If you set this value to yes, the message will appear directly on the phone display without asking for open it up (if supported by mobile phone) | | Alphabet | Specify the character SET used in the SMS text:
ISO LATIN ANSI: 8 Bit character set, MAX 160 Characters with autosplit *DEFAULT VALUE
GSM: 7 bit character set refer to GSM specification MAX 160 Characters with autosplit
UCS: UCS2 character set MAX 70 Characters with autosplit
BINARY: 8 bit binary data, no text (ringtones and data trasmission)
| | SMSC | Phone number of the SMSC | | Report | Control if a status report is requested for the message, boolean value (yes/no) DEFAULT is NO | | Autosplit | Control how to split messages usefull only for text messages, binary split is NOT SUPPORTED:
0 disabled
1 enabled, no part-numbers
2 enabled, text numbers
| | RECEIVED MESSAGES (Incoming) | | From | Sender phone number | | From_SMSC | The SMSC that sent the message | | Subject | The logical name of the modem that received the message (DEFAULT GSM1) | | Sent | Time when message was sent | | Received | Time when the message was received by SMS FoxBox |
You can use custom header lines for your applications. If the Software finds unknown headers will simply skip it.
An example of received message is:
From: 3934947032XX
From_SMSC: 39565258552585
Sent: 06-10-04 23:26:23
Received: 06-10-04 23:26:29
Subject: GSM1
Alphabet: ISO
This is an incoming text message. |
An example of outgoing SMS is:
From: SMSFoxBox
To: 3934947XXX
Alphabet: ISO
Text of the short message |
The SMS FoxBox Software is developed by KDEV (http://www.kdev.it), a Davide Cantaluppi company on Acme Systems FOX GM Hardware
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