Help! Mobile Version Java & PHP

zkyevolved

Hi everyone, I need some help. I have a Blackberry and it used to run Opera Mini, which always worked great. But lately it hasn't been working on the ORIGINAL blackberry browser. The Java Script isn't working on it. So I'm trying to find another way around it. Is PHP able to do this? Thanks

<input type="text"   name="user"   value="PHONENUMBER"                                  />
<input name="msg" type="text" value="" maxlength="160">
<input type="button" name="button" value="button"  onclick="send(user.value, msg.value)" />

</p>
</form>
<div id="link_display">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">

function send(dest, msg)
{
//check if link already exists, if so replace it
var child = document.getElementById("link");
if(child)
{
child.removeChild(child.childNodes[0]);
}
var address = "https://www.mysite.com/sendsms.php?username=USERNAME&password=PW&from=PHONENUMBER&to="+dest+"&text="+msg;

var node    =  document.createElement('a');
node.setAttribute('href',    address);
node.setAttribute('id',      'link');
var text    = document.createTextNode("Send Message");
node.appendChild(text);
document.getElementById("link_display").appendChild(node);

}
</script>

Thanks so much!

Kent.

bradgrafelman

zkyevolved wrote:
Is PHP able to do this?

No. PHP is a server-side scripting language - the behavior you're trying to achieve deals with client-side scripting.

AndyMoore

Is it really wise to include the username and password as visible values within the javascript? (Unless it's a closed garden only you access)

As for the original blackberry browser, it doesn't support javascript, many mobile browsers don't on their own, it should however have good support for xhtml-basic and xhtml-mp (mobile profile) which are very similar. there's tutorials and basic templates over at http://dev.mobi you might also want to take a look at more mobile templates over at http://passani.it/gap/templates/

PHP could get the post values from the form to request the send the sms by using file_get_contents, this would make it more secure than javascript.

kkobashi

PHP isn't just a server side language. It can be executed on Windows/Linux boxes on command line/terminal. Just run the PHP executable, for example. However, it is unlikely that your Blackberry supports PHP on its proprietary OS.

Are you trying to create a script that runs on a HTTP server that then sends a message to a SMS server? And that SMS server then sends a message to a cell phone?

Here's a basic structure of form handling. I'll leave it up to you to fill in the details for communicating with the SMS server to pass on the form data.

<?php
// is this a form post?
if (isset($_POST['btnSubmit'])) {

  // - check all user fields below to see if they are filled in
  // - strip all bad characters and validate the data
  // - if any errors back out and post an error message
  $txtMsg = $_POST['txtMsg'];
  $txtPhoneNumber = $_POST['txtPhoneNumber'];
  $txtUsername = $_POST['txtUsername'];
  $txtPassword = $_POST['txtPassword'];
  $txtDestination = $_POST['txtDestination'];


  // Build the URL here
  $SMSUrl = "http://www.linuxbeanie.com";
  $SMSUrl .= "username=" . $username;
  $SMSUrl .= "&password=" . $password;
  $SMSUrl .= "&from=" . $txtPhoneNumber;
  $SMSUrl .= "&to=+" . $dest . "+";
  $SMSUrl .= "&text=" . $txtMsg;

  // comment out if this looks good... just a check only 
  echo $SMSUrl;

  // Send it to the SMS gateway
  // You can send it a number of ways:
  //   1) Via socket (see PHP docs for fsockopen/fputs/fclose/feof)
  //   2) Throuch CURL (see PHP docs)
  //
  // I'll leave it to you to fill in the details and create the HTTP header ($hdr)

  $theSocket = @fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errstr);
  if ($theSocket) { 
    fputs($theSocket, $hdr);
    while(!feof($theSocket)) {
      $ret[] = fgets($theSocket);
    }
    fclose($theSocket); 
  } 

}
else { // show the form
$strForm = "<form id='frmData' name='frmData' method='post' action='sendit.php'>";
$strForm .= "<input name='txtUsername' type='text' value='name here' />";
$strForm .= "<input name='txtPassword' type='text' value='password' />";
$strForm .= "<input name='txtDestination' type='text' value='Houston' />";
$strForm .= "<input name='txtPhoneNumber' type='text' value='1-800-123-4567' />";
$strForm .= "<input name='txtMsg' type='text' value='Your message here' maxlength='160'/>";
$strForm .= "<input  name='btnSubmit' type='submit' value='Submit' />";
$strForm .= "</form>";
echo $strForm;
}

?>

Name the file sendit.php and then run it on your HTTP server, fill in the rest.

zkyevolved

Hmmm... I need some help with this! Do you think you can Personal Message me and leave an e-mail or a msn address or something so we can talk directly. I need some help executing this!!!

Thanks!