Can anybody tell me what the best way to send a text message from Website would be? For example; if somebody was to place an order on my site then I would receive the details by text message. Any advice gratefully received. T
Best way is to send through email via php. You sms address is basically an email address. Ex. if you number was 123456789 and you carrier is att. Then you can actually send an email 123456789 @ txt. att. net (added spaces to prevent linking) and you should be able to receive it on your phone. But each carrier is different. Hope that helps.
I am pretty sure it depends on the network/carrier only, not location. Check with your carrier for the address.
You can try a third party Gateway, but they cost money. Here a reference for SMS Gateways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_carriers_providing_SMS_transit It has some UK carriers.
'Free' email-to-SMS only works on US networks, not on mobile networks in the UK. There is a 'trick' way you can do it for free, but it needs some programming knowledge. Basically, set up 2 separate Twitter user accounts. Then sign into 1 account, visit the other account homepage and 'follow' that user. Make sure your mobile phone is configured for account 1 to receive 'Tweets'. Now, write a php/perl script that takes the data submitted in your web page form and sends it out as a Direct Message from Twitter account 2 to Twitter account 1. You can use the Twitter APIs to integrate this function into your website. Since you're following Twitter account 2, Twitter account 1 can send you free text messages! This trick will only work in those countries where Twitter offers free SMS of Tweets. The latest list of mobile networks is on their website. I can't imagine that Twitter will thank me for this trick Mickey
Thanks for the Twitter trick Mickey, but it wouldn't be suitable for my purposes. Looks like I'll have to investigate paid options. T
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First see whether your carrier (phone company) is listed here. If it is listed, then we can write a small php script to send an email to the carrier which will then be sent to you as a SMS. Read, How to make an email to SMS gateway using php. This is a very good web site -> sms system.
You will have to use some SMS Gateway. They will provide you with an API to send/receive SMS msgs using php or similar langs. So setting up on your site gets pretty simple. In your case you can even use the sample code by providers, as you need very basic setup of it. On each success of order, you just need to call those functions which will send you the SMS.