php texting

[markl1988]

does anyone know if it is possible to send an sms text using php

 

thanks

[premiso]

Yep, using the mail function. You have to know the 10 digit phone number and know what carrier to format the domain portion of the email.

[ohdang888]

it can't be done with ONLY php. You can use php to interact with an API from a company that does this kind of stuff (like http://eztexting.com/), but other than that, nope.

 

There might be some free API's but i wouldn't use them, as they most likely spam the number too.

[ohdang888]

Yep, using the mail function. You have to know the 10 digit phone number and know what carrier to format the domain portion of the email.

 

 

seriously? WOW i did not know that.

[the182guy]

You can also pay for access to a SOAP web service to send an SMS. Which you can call from PHP.

[premiso]

it can't be done with ONLY php. You can use php to interact with an API from a company that does this kind of stuff (like http://eztexting.com/), but other than that, nope.

 

There might be some free API's but i wouldn't use them, as they most likely spam the number too.

 

You may want to look up how a text is actually sent. You can find a list of the carriers and what the address is like for att it is [10 digit number]@txt.att.net you can find this list on the internet by googling.

 

Now, if you want to interact with text's, say have something that receives a text then charge a person for a service like Joke of the day, that is something different. But to simply send a text, you can do that with email.

[ohdang888]

it can't be done with ONLY php. You can use php to interact with an API from a company that does this kind of stuff (like http://eztexting.com/), but other than that, nope.

 

There might be some free API's but i wouldn't use them, as they most likely spam the number too.

 

You may want to look up how a text is actually sent. You can find a list of the carriers and what the address is like for att it is [10 digit number]@txt.att.net you can find this list on the internet by googling.

 

Now, if you want to interact with text's, say have something that receives a text then charge a person for a service like Joke of the day, that is something different. But to simply send a text, you can do that with email.

 

that seems pretty useful.

[premiso]

that seems pretty useful.

 

It is, I used to have a pay site for Verizon and ATT (when texting first started out) where a user could get an MP3 Ringtone from my site sent to their phone for $1 a ringtone. It worked out well with the texting and getting the email headers right. But once texting got really big I could not keep up with it (all the different carriers some allowed ringtones others did not) etc. So I stopped it.