PHP and SMS?? Possible?

Tea_J

I want to make an SMS program in PHP.

Basically, it's a simple program that sends group sms via a mobilephone attached to the computer.

Other features are :

1) Able to receive and analyze keywords in received messages and;
2) Auto responding to that
3) Pulling certain numbers from mysql and using it as recipient list for certain message

What I'd like to know from you guys is, can these be done via PHP? I chose PHP because that's where I'm really comfortable at.. and I plan to interface this software via a website.. I was hoping it can be as easy as sending GET variables to a script that tells the attached mobilephone to:

send this "$message" to these "$numbers"

.. or something like that..

Please give me your insight on this issue.

Sincerely
Tea

PS
mobile service subscription isnt an issue. the cellphone attached to the computer has a subscription.

NCC1701

have a look at:

[URL=http://]http://www.simplewire.com/[/URL]

[URL=http://]http://www.nowsms.com/[/URL]

that might be of some use im not sure 😃

yelvington

In the United States and in some other countries, the GSM phone providers have email-to-SMS gateways, so all you would need to do is call the PHP mail() function. A few minutes with Google will turn up the gateway info, or you can go to the providers' web sites and dig around.

I believe the Cingular and T-Mobile USA gateways automatically use MMS if necessary to accommodate longer messages. Also, the message sender ID is stored server-side so you can reply.

Tea_J

i've checked into that already. we are not so lucky as to have that feature with our providers.

The best way for our project is to buy a phone with its number and use it with our PHP programs. However, we have not found a way software that would talk to the phone for us. 🙁