Sending text messages via php
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:47 am
Is there a way to do it? If so how would it work? Just curious.
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Be more specificagtlewis wrote:Is there a way to do it? If so how would it work? Just curious.
Is there a way to send a text message using php to a cellular phone?jmut wrote:Be more specificagtlewis wrote:Is there a way to do it? If so how would it work? Just curious.
Depends on which cellphone. Most providers in the US provide a email gateway to their cellphones, so you just send an email to:agtlewis wrote:Is there a way to send a text message using php to a cellular phone?
Egads! You have to PAY to send to people? Craziness!d11wtq wrote:We're in the UK and we use Kapow
http://www.kapow.co.uk/
If you want to do this from your own server with your own hardware you need some GSM hardware so I'd just go with an existing gateway.
Hmm... Mobile Phones (well, you guys call 'em cell phonesRoja wrote:Egads! You have to PAY to send to people? Craziness!d11wtq wrote:We're in the UK and we use Kapow
http://www.kapow.co.uk/
If you want to do this from your own server with your own hardware you need some GSM hardware so I'd just go with an existing gateway.
Don't phones in the UK have email-to-phone options?
Sounds like a difference in terminology here.d11wtq wrote:Hmm... Mobile Phones (well, you guys call 'em cell phones) can do that via MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) over GPRS/3G yeah but nobody uses it. We're all SMS mad. I'll organise more things with friends over text messages then I will by calling them. It only costs a few pence a message (for me at least)
Well, not all phones support it but most of the providers allow you to send emails to XXXXXXXXXXX@service-provider.com where XXXXXXXXXXX is the number of the mobile phone. It shows as a MMS message on the recipients handset though. I've never heard of anyone over here doing what you're referring to. SMS is the more generic option since it's been around since the early 90's... that's what I'd call a "text-message" too so I just assumed that's what the OP was referring tooRoja wrote:Is there a no-cost-to-send email gateway for UK phones?
Oh, so whats the downside to just sending the email that way? I mean, if it costs the sender to send via SMS, why would you pay to do so?d11wtq wrote:Well, not all phones support it but most of the providers allow you to send emails to XXXXXXXXXXX@service-provider.com where XXXXXXXXXXX is the number of the mobile phone. It shows as a MMS message on the recipients handset though. I've never heard of anyone over here doing what you're referring to. SMS is the more generic option since it's been around since the early 90's... that's what I'd call a "text-message" too so I just assumed that's what the OP was referring too
Because there's a tonne of people here that can't receive MMS messages so you wouldn;'t be certain they were going to get the message. You need a (relatively) fancy phone to be able to read these. On top of that, it's not a culture we have here and thus, nobody would bother to read the message... when I said we're all SMS crazy I meant itRoja wrote:Oh, so whats the downside to just sending the email that way? I mean, if it costs the sender to send via SMS, why would you pay to do so?d11wtq wrote:Well, not all phones support it but most of the providers allow you to send emails to XXXXXXXXXXX@service-provider.com where XXXXXXXXXXX is the number of the mobile phone. It shows as a MMS message on the recipients handset though. I've never heard of anyone over here doing what you're referring to. SMS is the more generic option since it's been around since the early 90's... that's what I'd call a "text-message" too so I just assumed that's what the OP was referring too
Wikipedia wrote: Europe follows next behind Asia in terms of the popularity of SMSing. In 2003, an average of 16 billion messages were sent each month. Users in Spain sent a little more than fifty messages per month on average in 2003. In Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom the figure was around 35–40 SMSs per month. In each of these countries the cost of sending an SMS varies from as little as £0.03–£0.18 depending on the payment plan.
Thats interesting. Here in the US, text-messaging is done via SMS, and virtually all phones sold today support it. The email gateways have been around at least 6 years, as they existed when I started work at Airtouch Cellular (later to become part of Verizon).d11wtq wrote:Because there's a tonne of people here that can't receive MMS messages so you wouldn;'t be certain they were going to get the message. You need a (relatively) fancy phone to be able to read these. On top of that, it's not a culture we have here and thus, nobody would bother to read the message... when I said we're all SMS crazy I meant itSMS is extremely heavily used in the UK. I'd guess that the service providers make more £££ from SMS than they do from actual phone calls.