Send Text with MessageBird

sendText.swift

import Foundation
import Alamofire // installation instructions for Alamofire can be found here: https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire

// Sends text message to phone number 
func sendText(phoneNumber: String, message: String) {
    let apiKey =  "AccessKey YOUR_ACCES_KEY"
    let originator = "YOUR_NAME"
    
    // create a new manager instance (so you don't overwrite any other API's authorization)
    var manager = Manager.sharedInstance

    // set authorization
    manager.session.configuration.HTTPAdditionalHeaders = ["Authorization": apiKey]

    // perform request
    manager.request(.POST, "https://rest.messagebird.com/messages", parameters: ["originator": originator, "recipients" : phoneNumber, "body": message], encoding: .JSON).responseJSON { (request, response, data, error) in
            log("request \(request)")
            log("response \(response)")
            log("error: \(error)")
            log("data: \(data)")
    }

}