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I need some help in SMS

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:48 am
by stewards
Hi, This is my first time here to post,can i ask some help,I am developing website and i need to integrate the SMS messages in my site,but i have no idea on this in sending sms messages to my client,can anyone have a grateful heart to help me or have some big ideas on this.

More inputs will be greatly appreciated :)

Re: I need some help in SMS

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:41 am
by mecha_godzilla
Hi,

You need to sign-up for an account with an SMS gateway provider - each gateway will have its own API that you'll need to use to send messages through it, but most gateway providers will have a PHP library available that you can incorporate in your scripts.

Just search for "sms gateway" on your favourite search engine to find details of SMS gateway providers in your country, but keep in mind that tariffs will vary and you'll need to calculate the expected usage to make sure that your client has the budget to support it. There are free SMS gateway providers available but you can't expect to use them to send thousands of SMSs every day - in all likelihood, they'll probably block your server's IP address if you send too many.

HTH,

Mecha Godzilla

Re: I need some help in SMS

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:06 am
by stewards
Hi Mecha Godzilla, First of all thank you for the quick reply...That's good there's free sms gateways,can you please tell me what are those free sms gateways...

Thank you in advance.

Re: I need some help in SMS

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 12:58 pm
by mecha_godzilla
You just need to search for "free sms gateway" on a search engine - I've never used a free SMS gateway myself so I can't recommend any particular ones but (as an example) this service allows you to send 25 messages a day for free

http://www.earthsms.net/

while this service allows you to send 100 messages a month and you can upgrade to paid plans as and when you need to

http://www.freesmsgateway.com/

HTH,

M_G

Re: I need some help in SMS

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:37 pm
by Eric!
You can also send sms as email. For example for AT&T phones it is phone_number@txt.att.net.

Here's a huge list of SMS Gateways.

Re: I need some help in SMS

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:57 pm
by mecha_godzilla
Eric! wrote:You can also send sms as email. For example for AT&T phones it is phone_number@txt.att.net.
Is there a way to work out which network the user is on based on what their phone number is? If so, you'd then just need a backup service for the networks that didn't support it.

I've just looked and there are also email-to-SMS gateway providers as well - you just send an email to something like 07777000000@email2sms.xxx and they'll deliver it for you. It looks like the prices are similar to the SMS gateways so it's just a different way of doing things I guess - at least you don't have to mess around with APIs if you only know how to send an email from your server :mrgreen: Actually, I'd be more inclined to go down the API route myself as you'd get immediate confirmation that the message has been received by the gateway provider.

M_G

Re: I need some help in SMS

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:35 pm
by Eric!
I've really only used this to send stuff to myself. It was easier to pipe something through mail than to get an account/figure out the api/etc. But you're right an API would be better if it needed to be robust and send to a wide variety of numbers.

Re: I need some help in SMS

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:33 am
by mani34
Great product we see a lot of potential use in our organization.... Great work.

Re: I need some help in SMS

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:50 am
by szurcsii
Hi Stewards,

With the help of an API you can integrate a sms solution to your website.
Check out the following link for a php example for sms sending / receiving: http://www.ozekisms.com/index.php?owpn= ... ms_example

I hope it will help you!

Re: I need some help in SMS

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 12:11 am
by ElkinsLacombe
Well I do not have much idea about adding api with websites for sms gateway. But I think if you need sms api for your business purpose then there many sms api service provider like experttexting.com who are serving sms api for business. May these service providers are help you.