Re: GSM_SMS

On 8 Aug 2001, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: > I'm not up to date on the GSM terminology; OTA, is that only for WAP > configuration through SMS, or is that the entire standard for sending > special messages through "ports"? OTA is simply Over The Air. You can send all kind of stuff over the air. Most common being OTABitmaps (which are bulding blocks of operatorlogos and icons) and configuration settings including (but not limited) to WAP settings. > What did you intend to put into each of those Bearer/xxx.php files? > Just a configuration for each provider? When sending operator logos, > you need to embed the country and operator number, would these be > defined here? Country and operator codes should be given when creating a new instance of GSM_SMS_OTA_OperatorLogo(). The example was a bit bad in here. In all the Bearer/xxx.php files would be atleast implementation of every bearers send() method. This varies a lot. Some of them separate UDH (User Data Header) and the payload, some not. Some of them want charactest urlencoded, some not. There are also bearers which work through email. My idea in here is to provide simple API to the user making just a send() with one mandatory parameter - the content. The method should itself figure out if the content was an binary message: is_subclass_of($message, "GSM_SMS_OTA")) or simple ascii message is_string($message) and how to send it. User shouldn't have to care in which format to give the data to the send() method. About the configuration, I think giving it as a dsn would be quite handy. Even though it isn't actually and "data" source. There are other things to consider such as SMS routing (which bearer to use when sending to specific operator). I think this is not something that the class should take care about. SMS's are relayed between many operators. Kannel can handle some routing itself. If an user wants to implement routing that sould be taken care in her own code. These classes should be just building blocks. -- Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/