Tutorials

Receive SMS from a user, and respond using a serverless function. This example uses IBM Cloud Functions to receive the webhook notification of the incoming SMS request, and respond by sending an SMS (containing a fortune cookie as a very simple example) back to the user. An ideal model for low-traffic use cases where users need up-to-date information by SMS.

Enhance your .NET application by adding the ability to send SMS messages to users. This tutorial walks you through adding a simple form to your web application, and sending an SMS message to the number provided.

By enabling delivery receipts on the SMS messages that you send, you can get a notification when the message is successfully delivered. This tutorial show you how you can implement this in your Rails application.

Send an SMS in response to any trigger by creating a serverless action in PHP that sends an SMS. Use IFTTT to send a webhook to the serverless action when your chosen event occurs

Detailed tutorial on how you can send SMS from your Ruby on Rails application using the Nexmo SMS API

Use Node.js and Express to receive an SMS, send it via Ably to a web browser, and then use Angular to display it as a notification in a Single Page Application.

Walk through of how to receive an SMS in your PHP project

This short but detailed tutorial shows you how you can send SMS messages from your PHP application.

This tutorial introduces you to sending SMS with Python, making use of the Nexmo Python library. It starts by showing how to send SMS from the REPL, then goes on to show you how to build a simple flask app with SMS capabilities.

Delivery receipts allow you to get information about when an SMS is delivered to a user's handset. This tutorial shows how you can receive these delivery receipt notifications in your ASP .NET application.

A tutorial to show how your ASP .NET MVC application can use the Vonage .NET SDK to receive SMS messages from your users and display them in your output window.

Handle incoming SMS from users in your Ruby on Rails application.

This tutorial walks you through creating a servlet to receive incoming SMS messages from your users. You'll learn how to configure your Nexmo number and account, set up the servlet, and have the incoming messages logged to the console.

Get notifications when your SMS is actually delivered to the handset of the user. This tutorial uses Slim framework to log the delivery receipts of your sent messages.

Learn how to add the ability to send SMS messages from your Java application. This tutorial also shows how you can create a web service and use that to send the SMS messages.