In PHP if I save the users mobile number into my phpmyadmin database and want to push certain notifications to the users phone I would have to email them at that specified number. How would you go about determining the users carrier to email such as #vtext.com or #at&temail.com or #virginmobile.com ect. How would I determine the ending email to send to? I know there are sites online that can determine this already for you which I can possibly send a curl request to and fetch the carrier it displays on the screen but how do these sites specifically determine these carriers? If they can determine it so can I right? There must be a way?
Most carriers do not offer an email to SMS gateway, so you don't. Use a service designed for sending SMS instead. e.g. Twilio or Amazon Simple Notification Service.
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I would like to to have a notification system to alert the user via Google SMS system and register user with their phone number. I would like to send the alert when certain condition is reached in a PHP web application. Would it be possible? Could you please give some suggestion?
Yes it is possible. There are apis available for this functionality. You could implement this yourself and you can send text messages via email if you use an api to figure out the phone carrier of the user.
Is there any work around in php to read SMS content which are sent on a mobile no. or lets say an organization toll free no. or any number.
Actually i need offline verification through SMS.
Customer message sent on a no. And i Need to check the authenticity of customer based on information provided in SMS.
I want to receive emails from mobile phone and display it on my website implemented PHP.
My site is a free messaging system that sends messages to mobile phones using sendgrid API
I want to display messages from cell phones on my website. Is there any API available ?
You don't need any APIs to do this task. What you need is to setup mail server on your server to be able to receive emails. It's nothing difficult in sms to emails. It's absolutely identical to regular emails. So you should setup your mail server to call your receiver script which will process the email, insert into your database etc. Take a look at exim or qmail.
How it will work:
your website sends email to, lets say, 91700000001#vtext.com from user#yourwebsite.com
91700000001 replies to user#yourwebsite.com that goes to your mail server
you have filter on your mail server to check, for example, if emails came from carriers domain (vtext.com, att.com etc), and hit your receiver script
the receiver scripts gets an email, parse it, inserts into the database
your display the data from the db on your website
Email from mobile? Do you meant text (sms)? Every mobile phone can receive email if they have internet connection. Your question is not very clear, can you rewrite your question to understand very clearly.
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GupShup Apps platform will allow you to create sms applications that will allow your website to interact with your system.
Check out the FAQ first to see if it meets your requirement.
Then check the requirements for creating your application.
You can find the list of APIs here.
Sample Code (click on Quote App in PHP on extreme left.)
I know I can send sms through php using api or gateway.
But my question is how those websites send sms through our mobile no. How is this done.
Any help
SMS is fundamentally like email, it trusts the sender to be truthful about who they are sending from. I use clickatell to send SMS and in the early days - 2004/5 you could send an sms to anyone from anyone without any special permission, but they quickly shut this down for security reasons, you now have to register and prove your rights to send from a particular address.
Basically in order for you to do it you need to either sign up with a mobile provider or have an agreement with your sms provider to allow you to send sms from whoever you wish. There may be senders out there who are less strict in setting the sender.
They would communicate with a provider (possibly through a third party) also using an API of sort. One of the parameters they would pass is a source number. So when the SMS is sent there is header information saying it came from a specific number. It is possible to set this value to a text string too instead of a number. So the SMS might look to come from for example 'STACKOVERFLOW' instead of '12345678'.
I have been asked to design a website for a client but one of the requirements is that there is a form which includes such things as name, email, dob and mobile number once the user submits the form a SMS is automatically sent to the users mobile almost like a autoresponder.
How to achieve this?
This can be done using an external SMS gateway which will not be free, but also not awfully expensive.
However, you say you are not a programmer. For this to be built well and most important of all, safely, it might be a good idea to use the services of one.
If you want to do it yourself, consider using a pre-paid plan with the SMS provider of your choice so you can't be ruined by a bot flooding your form with thousands of requests.
Web sms functionality can be added to any web application or website. As #Pekka said you need to use an external SMS gateway and to connect your application to this SMS Gateway. Most SMS gateways provide external API which can be used to do that. They usually have documentation which you can use to find out how to integrate SMS notification in your PHP code. Unfortunately there are no reliable free sms service provides so you have to pay for this sms service. You can check http://www.phpjabbers.com/web-sms/ which seems to work a lot easy. Their integration code is pretty simple:
<?php
$SMSLIB["phone"] = '44111222333'; // your phone number
$SMSLIB["key"] = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrs'; // your personal API code
include("smslib.php"); // we will provide you with smslib.php file
sendSMS("test message", $SMSLIB["phone"]); // function which sends the message
?>
The easiest way to do this is to send it to their mobile numbers assigned email address (which is different by each carrier) then have it sent like a normal email.
The only issue is you will probably have to have a Dropbox with each carrier then add something to the PHP that changes the email address (ex. $tmobile would be tmomail.net).
More info:
How To Send Email To Any Cell Phone (for Free)
Most of mobile carriers offer free Email To SMS gateways which can be used to forward simple text emails to a mobile phones. And the good news, majority of those gateways are free and available to the general public.