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[a1nerd]

My client needs to be able to send text messages to clients cell phones from data retrieved from web sites. So basically i need to be able to send text information from my server to cell phones.

 

[v0rtex]

re: Sending SMS

My client needs to be able to send text messages to clients cell phones from data retrieved from web sites. So basically i need to be able to send text information from my server to cell phones.

Hi there,

The easiest way to do this is to sign up with an SMS gateway service - Clickatell is the one I've used in the past for my development projects.

Check them out at:
http://no_url_shorteners/yopr5n

Basically you write a bit of code that submits your API key (to identify you), the target number and the message text to Clickatell's SMS web service and Clickatell handles the messaging.

Let me know if you need a hand writing the code for your site and I'd be more than happy to provide a quote.

Kind regards,
Gareth.

PS. There's also a free way where you send messages to e-mail addresses for each carrier - eg. [email protected], but you need to know the carrier the user is on and it's /really/ unreliable - we tried it for our business and abandoned it as most messages we sent to our t-mobile test phones never arrived and those that did took days!