PHP - send out notification via pager

[drranch]

Hello all!

 

I know that PHP uses mail() to send out an email, but does PHP have the ability to send out to a pager?

[PHP_PhREEEk]

Not directly, no. But if you find a web service that is connected to a telephone exchange and can ring the pager, you can use PHP to interact with their service's web form.

 

PhREEEk

[phpQuestioner]

This may be of some use to you:

 

http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/sms/

 

if not; try this:

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=SMS+with+PHP&btnG=Google+Search

[PHP_PhREEEk]

This may be of some use to you:

 

http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/sms/

 

if not; try this:

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=SMS+with+PHP&btnG=Google+Search

 

Re: SMS

 

That's text messaging, which is different than an analog pager (old skool device). A pager requires a telephone exchange to ring the pager number, which then prompts a tower to send a signal to the pager.

 

Maybe he meant text messaging... if so, I do that all the time with PHP scripts just sending mail() to my cell provider's website.

 

PhREEEk

[phpQuestioner]

that's right it is text messaging - but most people these days have cell phones that are SMS compatible and not many people have pagers any more - your right about that; it is "old school".

[drranch]

So SMS is old skool?  Then it wouldn't apply to sending a page to a blackberry or smart phone.  So to page these devices I would use there provider number....

 

mail(phonenumber@cingularme.com)

[revraz]

If the Pager has Alpha Numeric Service, most carriers will allow a message to be sent via the Web.