[suru_epn]

Hi Friends,

What i can do for sending SMS to mobiles using PHP...



Plz Help

[Nico]

Use my class:
http://www.programmingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=43111

[Jay6390]

If you know the service provider for the number, it is also possible to do via email and an sms/mms gateway, free of charge. Take a look here for a list of gateways
http://basicstate.com/htm/page.htm

Jay

[digioz]

Originally Posted by Nico

Use my class:
http://www.programmingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=43111

Very nice work on that PHP class Nico. I like how you have it layed out.

Pete

[scott2500uk]

Originally Posted by Jay6390

If you know the service provider for the number, it is also possible to do via email and an sms/mms gateway, free of charge. Take a look here for a list of gateways
http://basicstate.com/htm/page.htm

Jay

Jay with that site is there a way of checking what the provider is to a number?

I presume you could take the country code and that would narrow down the list but is there away of pinpointing the provider?

[Jay6390]

It used to be fairly simple because mobile phone numbers were stuck to their prefixes, however these days, portability is an issue that you have to come.
The only way to guarantee that you find the correct home network of the mobile phone is to do a HLR(Home Location Register) lookup. There are a number of sites that will allow you to test their system for home networks, however they are limited to the number of requests per ip in general, to stop abuse, and force you to pay for using their service.

I suggest you use the good old Google and shop around for the cheapest. remember you will only need to do 1 lookup per number in reality per every 2 months say, to ensure that the network it is with is current. You could even get your clients to go to a HLR site and look up the network for you, thereby reducing the number of requests from your IP to 0, and still maintaining the numbers. It will be a hassle for your client to do, but for free sms messages, it will be worth their two minutes time.
Once a number has been entered into your site with a network, you could save that information for the next time the user accesses the site

All just idea's you will have to work around if you want to make it as free as possible

Jay

[Jay6390]

With regards to the previous post, here is an example site for HLR lookup. It gives free lookups for an IP for x amount of times, then blocks. It also allows you to get 10000 lookups for approx $175USD (110 EURO's) which is more than 50 lookups per $1USD
http://www.smssubmit.se/en/hlr-lookup.html

Please not that I am by no means saying this is the cheapest service

Jay

[scott2500uk]

Im currently using http://www.tm4b.com/ to send txt messages but although its quite cheap and you can send to almost anywhere in the world it would be nice if you could get it for nearly 1p per txt etc.

The thing is using that list for all the service providers and then ontop of using an HLR lookup it seems that there are too many places it might not work.

also for example using that list my service provider is Orange so i would use number@orange.net

when using the above it doesnt work. Maybe the list isnt upto date?

[scott2500uk]

http://www.nowsms.com/whatisnowsms.htm

found this site. by what im reading here is that you could plugin your phone to this software and send sms' via your phone. Now if your on an unlimited txt plan with your service provider then free txts except monthly contract and cost of running software mobile phone.

[Jay6390]

Yeah, the list may not be a complete up to date version. The one on wikipedia seems to show that there is no email to sms/mms gateway for orange UK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gat....2F_Web_to_SMS

Jay