sms ?????

From Australia, 1 post

how do I built a short messaging service site ??

requirements ???

From Denmark, 1 post

Hi Steve,





> how do I built a short messaging service site ??

By drinking gallons of Jolt Cola and burning lots of midnight oil of course



Seriously.. It depends on your favourite flavour in programming/scripting languages.. You could code such a site in just about anything which will run as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) on your server (I do assume that you have access to CGI on your webserver, if not... change ISP or forget the whole enchilada).

As I'm not aware of your web skills, it is hard to give specific directions, but go for ASP, PHP or (my personal favourite) Perl, as you will be able to get loads of tutorials for these on the web.



The short explanation:

TO send an SMS from the web (or your favourite mail program) you simply send an eMail to "subscriber_number@mail_gate" of the cellular service operator (CSO). It's a very good idea to loose the subject line (although not necessary) as the max. allowed number of characters as you probably know, is 160. including the text on the "from" line.



"subscriber_number@mail_gate" is composed of:

"subscriber_number", which is the cellular number which you would dial to call the person.

and

"mail_gate" which is (of course) different for each CSO.



You have to find out, which group of numbers belong to which CSO and the proper mail gate to use for each group.

In the handling script, you would build some arrays to control that part, when a number is entered your script would be searching through them until the correct mail gate for that number is found.



I'm sorry, that I cannot be more specific, but I don't even know in which country you're planning to accomplish this. I'm living in Denmark, and only have to deal with a handfull of different CSO's, so it's not such a big deal here





> requirements ???

Ability to code HTML

Access to CGI on your web server (in a tight corner, you can get by with access to "sendmail")



Want a really cool SMS-page... Start learning CGI



Want a finished script...

enter the following into a browser window

http://www.google.com/search?q=sms+sender+script & num=100 & site=search & hl=en & lr= & safe=off & output=search





Got any short and sweet questions, which might give you the final clue you need...

Contact me at Webmaster@ElektronikTeknolog.dk - but don't count on me training a total newbie though!





Regards,



Soeren