Send a text message with HTML?

[kernelgpf]

I have been Googling for hours and cannot find a solution. My code:

 

$from_name	=	'Alacrity';
$from_email	=	'support@alacritysim.com';  // From Phone Number
$sendto = $urow[phone].$urow[phone_email];
$headers .= "From: ".$from_email."\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$from_name." <".$from_email.">\r\n";
//$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$subj = "Alacrity Alert"; 
$body = "<a href='userprofiles.php?id=$sid'>Player #$sid</a> scribbled on <a href='userprofiles.php'>your profile</a>!";		

mail($sendto, $subj, $body, $headers);

 

I've tried mlutiple charsets I've found online, and all I know is when I add the MIME line it simply erases all HTML. I'm trying to have this sent as a text message that contains clickable links to the pages specified in the HTML. Help?

[teamatomic]

You cant. That why it s TEXT message. Some phones will accept a pushed WAP(wml) message sent through a GSM modem or a GSM phone connected to a PC.

http://www.developershome.com/sms/howToSendSMSFromPC.asp

http://www.developershome.com/sms/howToSendSMSFromPC.asp

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[kernelgpf]

I find this hard to believe seeing as I get texts from companies with links that I click on in the same fashion?

[teamatomic]

Note the "some phones". You can send a link through your phones browser, but its not the same as a SMS text message, its SMSC.

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[Amtran]

You actually can send a text message using email. Something like:

 

<?php
$number = '5255558794';

$num_suffix = 'txt.att.net';

mail($number . '@' . $num_suffix, 'Some Subject...', 'This is a SMS sent via the PHP mail() function.', 'From: Mr. Text <15735558372>');

 

All major carriers have some way of sending a text to a phone via an email address. Some simple googling will get you a list of them, and then you can obviously use a dropdown or something to have the user specify their carrier when they enter their number, or even do a lookup of the number.

 

Oh, and that stuff isn't HTML, it's PHP

[kernelgpf]

That's exactly what my code up there does, the number and email appendage is passed in through a database entry. I'm trying to send HTML in a text message.

[Amtran]

Ah. Okay, it's official, my IQ is lower than the temperature of my room right now