Heya Trevor, I'm actually in the process of doing something similar myself - in another language (C#), but the concept is still the same.
Firstly, you'll need a cell phone or cellular modem that uses the ol' Hayes Modem commands - you know, the "AT+XXX" commands. A lot of cell phones use these, especially the old Nokias. Look for a phone that provides a cellular modem feature - they're more likely to support the Hayes Commands. If you can't find a compatible phone, and you only want the SMS/MMS feature, try to get hold of a cellular model. I'm currently playing with a WaveCom Fastrack M1305B - it's end of lined, but theres alot of info around on them. Once you have full communication with them (ie: you can connect via hyperterminal and get a response from the "AT+CGMI" command) - send the modem commands to do what you desire. Google code has a really simple to use class for communicating with the COM port with PHP: http://code.google.com/p/php-serial/ One thing to note, and it's a kicker - most phone in NZ use the PDU format to send and receive messages. It's not an format that's easy to come by or create, as it uses septets, bin-octaves and semi-octets in a combined string with a length identifier. Example to send a SMS with commands: AT+CMGF=0 //Set PDU mode AT+CSMS=0 //Check if modem supports SMS commands AT+CMGS=23 //Send message with a length of 23 octets >0011000B916407281553F80000AA0AE8329BFD4697D9EC37<ctrl-z> // input the message, >and ctrl+z to sent (char 26) Decoding is just the reverse. More info on PDU can be found here: http://www.dreamfabric.com/sms/ Best of luck :) ~ C From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trevor NESBIT Sent: Tuesday, 6 October 2009 9:33 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [phpug] Downloading Text Messages from a Mobile Phone Hi everyone I am conducting an experiment and am interested to know if anyone has any experience in writing a PHP app (or part of one) that downloads text messages via data cable from a mobile phone... Any suggestions of directions to head in would be appreciated... Trevor Nesbit Information Systems Lecturer University of Canterbury </table --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
