Re: Help me!!!Can I use PHP to send SMS message???

If you had a suitable cable, phone and controlling software, You could send the SMS using the mobile phone. Not sure how you interface with external apps from PHP though. "Frank Hertogs" <fritzzzphp@es.nl> wrote in message news:004f01c1c0a4$b5752f50$3400a8c0@fritzzz57619dp... > Another way of doing it is thru an e-mail to sms gateway; free or paid. > That way you could make a simple form and use mail(); > > Just a thought. > > Frank. > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Simon Willison [mailto:cs1spw@bath.ac.uk] > Verzonden: donderdag 28 februari 2002 12:30 > Aan: hei > CC: php-general@lists.php.net > Onderwerp: Re: [PHP] Help me!!!Can I use PHP to send SMS message??? > > hei wrote: > > >Help me!!!Can I use PHP to send SMS message???If yes, how can I use > it??? > > > > > >(((Please e-mail the answer to me ---waiwinghei@yahoo.com.hk))) > > > One very cheeky way of doing this would be to sign up to one of the free > > SMS services on the web (such as lycos mobile) and set up a PHP script > that can "pretend" to be a browser, log in to your account and post a > message to the "send SMS" form. You could do this using something along > the lines of CURL or Snoopy (I recommend Snoopy as it doesn't require > anything to be installed on your web server): > > http://snoopy.sourceforge.net/ > > You would have to figure out how the authentication scheme for your > chosen web-based SMS service works (most of them use cookies). The main > disadvantage is that it's a bit of a dirty hack and it would stop > working if the free web service went down or changed the way its > authentication / SMS form worked. Free services also tend to limit you > to a certain number of messages a day. > > The professional alternative is to invest in some kind of web to SMS > gateway, but I think that's quite an expensive option. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >