I am creating a job portal where one can find details of various jobs both government and private sector. I was wondering if there's any HTML/PHP coding or WordPress plugin which can store mobile number of user. If a user of my website want to receive recent updates on their mobile and had registered their number, so by simply paying a small amount of money they can receive recent website updates directly on their mobile. How to implement this? It would just work like 'follow by email' in websites the only difference is that the update will be sent to mobile instead of email by asking a small fee. Please explain your answers in details as I am new to web designing.
Unless you have an app they can install, only way to achieve this would be by providing SMS notification. Not very hard to do, but you need to pay some SMS provider to get access to their api. Or you can just let users get emailupdates? Most people have their email on their phone.
^ Correct. Either use e-mail updates - everybody has a smartphone these days and most people check their mail on mobile devices, or use a SMS gateway like clickatell
There's notification API working on Chrome, but you have to have secure layer like SSL or TLS. No need to make a deal with the (devil) carrier.
thanks for the reply. Can you name some more best SMS gateway and how can i install them on my wordpress website.
And how, exactly, will this work on mobile? The ONLY sure way to provide mobile users with updates is via SMS (it's the only sure-fire way, as ALL mobile handsets supports SMS). Having an app would work, but would mean you'd have to make one for Android, iOS and Windows Phone, at least. Sending email works for most users, as most users at least have a private email set up on their phone. You could probably also create a FB-page where users sign up to have notifications, but that would be an ever bigger hassle. If what you want is to give the users the opportunity to receive updates on a cell-phone, use SMS.