RE: [PHP] SMS Again, UK

[Simon Ritchie]

Well, funnily enough, your question has much the same answer ...

If you have a mobile phone and your service provider offers a web gateway,
you can use it to send SMS messages. They will provide a script that you can
use.  If you have an Orange phone, see the Orange web site.  If it's a Voda,
see their web site, and so on.  The charge is usually the same as it would
be if you sent the message from your phone, but if you have a contract it
may include free messages.

There are services such as NovelSoft (http://www.sms-wap.com) that are
independant of provider, but you have to pay for them too.  Novelsoft is
quite cheap, and there are PHP scripts on the site, but some providers don't
accept their messages.  I have a NovelSoft account, but I can't use it to
send messages to my Orange phone.  I read somewhere that this is because
some of their customers used the service to send spam.

Simon



 -Original Message-
 From: Andy Whittlestone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: 01 July 2002 16:49
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [PHP] SMS Again, UK


 Hi i'm from the uk, is there any free php scripts that will allow txt
 messages to be sent within the uk.

 Couldn't get the other one posted here to work either,

 Wanna do a similiar idea to what that other guy was doing, but
 when the UPS
 Kicks in send a txt, but also so i can goto my site and access it
 and send a
 txt for free, :-)

 Cheers Andy



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RE: [PHP] SMS Again, UK

[Simon Ritchie]

Oh yes, I forgot about email, which was mentioned in another answer to this
FAQ.

Some providers give you an email address with your phone, for example
I believe that One2One (or whatever it's called today) give you
phonenumberone2one.com.  Email sent to that address arrives at your phone
as an SMS.  Somebody has to pay for the message, so it's probably you.

By the way, there is no guarantees on how long it will take to deliver an
SMS, or if it will ever arrive.  Typically 1% never arrive, more if the
network is very busy because something interesting has just happened on Big
Brother and everybody below 35 in the UK is sending a text (to somebody who
is busy sending them one).  That means it's wise to send a text, wait a few
minutes and send it again.  Buy a UPS with plenty of capacity ...

Oh yes, and don't forget to put all of the network access devices on the
UPS - the router, the switch and so on.  Otherwise when the power fails, you
won't be able to access the message gateway across the web.

Simon


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