Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, April 20, 2007 12:36 pm, Edward Vermillion wrote: > How does Yahoo do it? You can send text messages through YMessenger > and all you need is the number. You can probably do that with others > but that's the only one I've ever used. > > I'd be surprised if they are sending out billions of u

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Daniel Brown
It really is. That's why I was RFC'ing the list maybe I can reduce some clutter. On 4/20/07, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, April 20, 2007 10:27 am, Daniel Brown wrote: > The option that you're discussing is what I've been using for the > last > several years. All

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Richard Lynch
There are services to look up the carrier for any given phone number. Whether any of them are free or not, is another question entirely. On Fri, April 20, 2007 12:05 pm, Daniel Brown wrote: > I don't really like to, because I run the risk of getting my IP or > even > netblock blacklisted, but

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, April 20, 2007 10:27 am, Daniel Brown wrote: > The option that you're discussing is what I've been using for the > last > several years. All of the ones you sent look correct, from memory, > but I'd > have to check my scripts to see for sure. When I'm sending a message, > I > just sen

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Richard Lynch
You are missing about 10 large-scale carriers, and almost a hundred small-scale carriers... The list you have compiled is also compiled online somewhere... I don't recall where, but ran across it just by Googling around for SMS and this kind of stuff... Also note that if you send too many text m

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Daniel Brown
Happens to me all the time, too the fingers work quicker than the brain. I try to tell myself that it's because I have perfected my typing and point-and-click skills through years of experience. On 4/20/07, Edward Vermillion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Dani

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Edward Vermillion
On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: Yahoo! has an SMS gateway, as do AOL and MSN, among others. AOL's Instant Messenger SMS short code, for example, is 265060 (AOL-060), which is what appears when an AOL or AIM user sends a message to a mobile device. For reference, t

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Daniel Brown
Yahoo! has an SMS gateway, as do AOL and MSN, among others. AOL's Instant Messenger SMS short code, for example, is 265060 (AOL-060), which is what appears when an AOL or AIM user sends a message to a mobile device. For reference, there's an excellent Wiki article on the subject, which inc

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Edward Vermillion
On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: I don't really like to, because I run the risk of getting my IP or even netblock blacklisted, but I can't think of any other way to do it if the user doesn't know what carrier the number belongs to. Any ideas on this subject, I'm absolu

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Daniel Brown
I don't really like to, because I run the risk of getting my IP or even netblock blacklisted, but I can't think of any other way to do it if the user doesn't know what carrier the number belongs to. Any ideas on this subject, I'm absolutely more than willing to listen. The way I did it is a h

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Stut
Daniel Brown wrote: The option that you're discussing is what I've been using for the last several years. All of the ones you sent look correct, from memory, but I'd have to check my scripts to see for sure. When I'm sending a message, I just send it to all of the providers, because one phon

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Daniel Brown
The option that you're discussing is what I've been using for the last several years. All of the ones you sent look correct, from memory, but I'd have to check my scripts to see for sure. When I'm sending a message, I just send it to all of the providers, because one phone number can only exi

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Philip Thompson
Thanks to all who replied. I was unaware of being able to use the mail () function to send text messages. When hearing this, I looked up to find what all the major phone companies addresses were. I was able to compile this list - I've been unable to test each one of them, but I'm guessing th

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread Wolf
What I found to work was @provider.whatever The pain was just in finding out which provider used what sub-domain for their clients. But it works for all of them that I have needed to send to. HTH, Wolf Philip Thompson wrote: Hi. I have attempted to look at the archives for this, but keep get

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread clive
Philip Thompson wrote: I have Googled this topic and found a few, but find it hard to judge which ones are "good." Thanks in advance, ~Philip try bulksms, they have representation in a number of countries, they have php class to interface with them or just simple http posting does the trick

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-20 Thread John Ewing
I don't know of any free providers for what you want to do, but i've used http://www.clickatell.com/ to send text message notification from servers before. You can trigger the sending of the message by various methods including email and http request. Hope this helps J. On 4/19/07, Daniel Brow

Re: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-19 Thread Daniel Brown
I actually believe that vText is strictly for Verizon Wireless users, but I tried sending web messages to friends without it and, according to the system, the messages went through. So I guess you could give it a shot. On 4/19/07, Brian Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know vtext.com se

RE: [PHP] PHP & Text Messaging

2007-04-19 Thread Brian Seymour
I know vtext.com sends email to phones. Perhaps using the mail function you could just send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and they would get the message. To my knowledge this is a free service and works with all phone providers since they do the message for you. Just a thought. Hope this helps,