Receiving SMS through PHP - In UK

[sourcez]

Hi all,

Looking for advice on how to receive SMS messages to a UK number & have them processed by PHP.

Are there any free services out there which do this, or any scripts you've seen?

Don't need to be able to send messages.

 

[theaero]

you could check with the phone provider webpage login, they give you and email address that this works by looking for something about forwarding messages to another email adress and from there you can process the messages from another email address like the one from your hosting

 

[Peter]

You will not find a script to do this alone as it needs to receive data from the phon provider. The best you are going to get is the use of an API.

I did do a fair amount of searches in the past and could not find any free methods. However you could make it somewhat cheap if you use a service where the customer is charged more than the normal rate for the texts.

The only alternative option is for you is if you have the ability to integrate the phone into the PC that is to handle the sms and locate a script that can read the data from the phone (they do exist).

 

[sourcez]

Thanks for the suggestions there, I came to the same conclusion. Mainly wanted a way of texting in & posting to a forum thread.

Forum posting bit was easy, and ended up using txtlocal.co.uk for the sms gateway, they seem to have the best laid out website and most comprehensive range of services!

 

[Peter]

An alternative method could be email. Most mobile users can email nowadays.

You could setup a specific email account to receive the postings and use a script to keep an eye on the mailbox and post the message if any are received.

 

[sourcez]

Unfortunately most of the group this is targeted at don't have email ready phones...so text it is :P

 

[u8l2]

Unfortunately it is really a hit and miss deal some phones will send an smsto: <a href="smsto:7789997255?body=KEYWORD%20This%20is%20the%20body">Send us your answer</a>

while others use sms: <a href="sms:7789997255?body=KEYWORD%20This%20is%20the%20body">Send us your answer</a>

At any rate sms is not a recognised protocol by alot of phone manufactures.

As mentioned in another reply you can sign up to an sms service so you can have access to there api (gateway access)

Rob