RE: [PHP-DB] Sending text messages to cell phone with PHP?
| From: | Eric O'Connell | Date: | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:45:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] Sending text messages to cell phone with PHP? | ||
| Groups: | php.db | ||
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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 :)