I am looking to create a script to send a contact from Twillio to my iPhone. The purpose is the contact I send from Twillio to phone should look exactly the way contact shared by iPhone. Can someone help me,
PS: Is it doable ?
Twilio developer evangelist here.
This kind of depends. Contacts are sent as MMS messages (as it's a file of information). Twilio supports sending MMS messages in the US and Canada, so you can do this if that is where you are sending your messages. If you are sending elsewhere in the world, then I'm afraid you can't do so with Twilio and make it look the same as a shared contact.
Let me know if that helps at all.
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I am stuck in a situation in which when a user registers, he/she get a confirmation SMS on his/her mobile number, and he/she able to confirm their application by replying to the confirmation SMS, be repling like YES/NO to that confirmation sms..
Is there any SMS gateway available which provides the suitable functionality, I mean an API which takes user input from sms reply..
thanks in advance
Twilio has the ability to receive sms messages.
https://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart/php/sms
There is a definite solution available for this. Try exploring with FrontLine SMS that offers a similar functionality, though you will have to then use a 10 digit registered number to send your confirmation SMS.
How to use frontline sms:
Get an internet dongle from a cellular company (Idea, Airtel,etc)
connect dongle to PC
install frontline SMS
Frontline SMS detects dongle.
Frontline SMS API's available to read incoming SMS on dongle and forward to your server with POST/GET methods.
Try it out & let me know it work.
Regards,
Mihir.
PS: i use Huawei dongle + idea connection.
You can use mVaayoo (http://www.mvaayoo.com/sms-gateway-features-benefits.html)
It supports Easy 2-Way SMS Integration with Website, ERP, CRM or any application.
They will provide the rich documentation which helps you to solve your problem.
You can go to that site and register and test it..
There are so many things in the documentation like return values by getting the return values.
You can use http://routesms.com/
This is easy to use and cheap. I used it for like 3 years. They have all types of API with documentation.
The answer is Yes, try Clickatell, they also support India.
Please note that this is copied answer from another question...original This question is a duplicate.
Expensive, but it is possible.
I've been trying to build an app that forwards an sms to a URL
with twilio, i.e, a user sends an sms to a twilio number, the sms gets forwarded to a specified url, can't seems to find the resource on that, any experienced person in that area
to give a hint, plus what is the format of the sms forwarded to the url.
Thanks
Twilio evangelist here.
I'd suggest working through the SMS and MMS Messages Quickstart. It will walk you through the PHP needed to receive a text message:
https://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart/php/sms
Hope that helps.
At last, I was able to find what I was looking for. Phew!
$_REQUEST['Body'] retrieves the body of the sms message and I can do whatever I like with that.
Twilio rocks!
Can any one explain how to achieve the below requirement.
Say user sends a message like eg: TDFEED Nice work ! to some common no like 5858.
I need to receive this text message to my server.
Manipulate the text and in reply i need to send an acknowledgement.
I need how to achieve this using php or any other language.
Thanks,
Lokesh.
Use Twilio (http://www.twilio.com/), I'm using them now to send SMS messages and their API for receiving them is very simple and easy to setup.
Docs: http://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart/sms/hello-monkey
You can use this SMS software http://smsenabler.com. It can automatically post incoming SMS messages to the URL of your PHP script and send back reply SMS messages.
It uses a 3G/GSM modem (dongle) plugged in a computer to receive SMS. Such modems/dongles have a SIM card inside, therefore they have a phone number to which text messages can be sent.
You can use www.aql.com to receive SMS messages into your application. May work best in the UK...
I've been searching for a few hours on the best way to add sms notifications and reception to my PHP website. It seems that it's easy to send texts (to an email forward to a phone), but hard to receive them without an SMS gateway. Clickatell was recommended a lot.
But: I stumbled across a few article recommending Google Voice as a channel to send and receive SMS. (Here's one post: http://sudocode.net/article/190/receiving-incoming-smstext-messages-from-google-voice-in-php/)
Is there any reason I shouldn't/can't use a Google Voice number (and PHP) to handle my sms outbound and inbound messages?
I would check the Google Voice terms of service. If this is a commercial venture, I believe that's prohibited. Also since there is no official API, things could change at any time and break your app.
If you need reliable incoming or outgoing SMS there is no substitute for a gateway. I would recommend one, but I am not an impartial observer (see profile).
There is no official PHP API for Google Voice, however I used GVmax along with this PHP-SDK to create a website called Memebro.
Does anyone know how can i send a sms messsage when e-mails are arriving in a gmail account?
I know some PHP, C/C++ and C#, and I plan to read the new message using POP3. The problem is that I don't know how can I send a SMS message to a mobile phone. Do I need a SMS server?
can you give me some advices?
you need to register with and buy credit at some bulk SMS gateway with API. personally, i would recommend: http://www.clickatell.com/
which allows to send SMS via email, HTTP/GET/POST, REST, XML etc.
Many cell carriers have the ability to send SMS messages to an email address (ie yourphonenumber#telus.com). If you're sending to a specific mobile phone (for keeping an eye on your website, say), this would be something to look into, because it's free and simple. For the general case of sending an SMS to any mobile phone, that's somewhat more complicated. You can either hook into an SMS gateway (such as clickatell, as dusoft mentions), or you can attach a GSM modem to your PC and send commands through it.