Re: php and SMS

--- grahama@siren.cc wrote: > I want to send SMS Text messages to cell phones from my server app.... > I would also like cell phones to be able to send text messages back to > my app how does one go about doing this? This was done recently for Midnight Madness. The information given by the developer is as follows: "The SMS server was quite simple really. I borrowed a Sierra Wireless Aircard 750 from a friend. This is basically a GSM/GPRS cellphone in PCMCIA card package. The same type of setup can be done with any GSM cellphone and a serial cable attaching it to a pc. "I used a software called NowSMS which is free for 60 days. It has a lot of features but I only used one, which is executing a program everytime an sms message comes in with the message as a command line argument. It then sends as a reply anything that the program writes to standard output. "Then I wrote two pieces of software. One is the main game application that keeps track of all the teams, the combination guesses, the hints, etc. This program also has a sockets server running that waits for incoming sms messages. The second piece of software is a little sockets client that the NowSMS software executes when it gets a message. The client program sends the message to the main application, writes the response to standard out and exits. Everything is multi-threaded in case the sms messages overlap, but I don't think this ever happens." Hope that helps. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security - O'Reilly Coming Fall 2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams http://httphandbook.org/ PHP Community Site http://phpcommunity.org/