RE: [PHP-DB] Sending text messages to cell phone with PHP?

From: Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:45:20 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Sending text messages to cell phone with PHP?
Groups: php.db 
Request: Send a blank email to php-db+get-12701@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message
http://www.nextel.com/support/faq/textnumericmessagingfaq.shtml basically it says to put in the 10-digit nextel number @messaging.nextel.com and you can send it with SMTP. I dunno if this is what you need but hope it helps.. Eric O'Connell > I am in the progress of setting up a script where a user can > goto a certain website, supply info like a message and their > name and instantly page someone on their cell phone by using > the PHP based web form. The text would then be sent to the > cell phone reciepents screen as it was typed on the web form. > > My problem is this.. I got a script at > http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/9816.html called > PHPmyPagers that supports SMS and ICQ messaging, which of > course I would use as SMS for what I was working with. Inside > the options.inc.php script, it asks for a $pagerservice > command which they document as "the syntax of the paging > service of your service provider is" inside the script comments. > > So here is my final question.. I have a Nextel cell phone > that supports text messaging and all that jazz. Does that > support SMS? And if It does, what is the server or IP address > I can use to send messages thru their network. If it doesn't > require their servers and I can use a current mailserver > domain, that would be cool. > > If any of you have any suggestions, let me know. It would be > great help to me and others who have always wondered how to > do this sort of thing :)

« previous php.db (#12701) next »