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I am looking to write a small application that receives an SMS text message and records the results in an online database. I am most comfortable with php/mysql, but can use any suggestions you might have.
I wrote something cute and small like this last summer, but I cheated using an actual SMS server and used Twitter to receive my text messages in a specific format, then had a daemon service running through my RSS feed every n time units to pull in the data and store it in a flat file. It was a fun exercise, and free, and as far as I know no free SMS receivers are available. You can use MySQL if you want, but I feel like you'll need a language that's more designed for writing a service than a web application (i.e. PHP)
I've used clickatell for setting up SMS notification for Nagios. Never used them to receive text message though. My guess is you probably give them some magic URL and they hit it up with with a POST containing all the data in the message.
You'll ever find anything that is free though. In fact, you might find that SMS is rather expensive if you do a lot of volume. Even $0.01/message is a lot when you are sending 10k messages a week.
If you are looking to setup your own server, then you can make use of gnokii. You will have to physically connect a Nokia mobile phone and once you receive the messages, you can add them to a database.
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I am a union member of a airlines company, and I possess the elementary level of HTML, PHP and MYSQL. I have experience programming a library system and personnel system.
Our union would like to create an online platform, one of the function is to allow our crews to calculate their flying allowances and salary easily.
I think first of all, I need the roster data, so the platform is required to log in my company website in order to extract the roster data, and then I can code with PHP.
Therefore, I wonder if it is possible to write PHP code "log in to my company website and extract the data".
Or what is the best language for this program you recommend? Maybe I can learn a new language if PHP is not applicable.
Thanks for your attention.
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To answer your question, Yes, you can write this in PHP. And by you, I mean you! None of us know the site and there is no way for us to know how it operates.
You may want to consider if there is an API for this site. You may want to load the site via cURL or another HTTP request into PHP and parse the HTML. There are a lot of ways to do this.
PHP is not the only language to perform this in: ASP.NET, Perl, Python... in the end, it sounds like you need to collect data that you would normally see using a web browser, so you're going to mimic that behavior with whatever language you choose to use.
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I need to do a MASSIVE data mine. I want to find out;
A users location
Look at their tweets for specific words in the last two days
Repeat (ideally) for every twitter user
I've seen R recommended somewhere, but wouldn't really know where to begin.
Happy with CSV, json or SQL endpoint.
As you tagged "python" in your question, I'm going to assume you're ok with it ! Twitter lets you access its data by two APIs :
REST API allows you to make specific user requests (profile, friends, etc.), but it only allows a few queries per hour, so it probably does not meet your "massive data" criterion
The streaming API delivers tweets based on a search on real-time. You can definitely harvest massive data using this API, and if I remember correctly, tweets come up with useful infos (user who tweeted of course, but probably location too if enabled).
Tweepy (http://www.tweepy.org/) is a user-friendly Python library implementing both Twitter APIs, providing particularly helpful functions for capturing data from the streaming API (see examples here : https://github.com/tweepy/examples).
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I have a client that has a list of several thousand email addresses (and their personal info). If they are holding an event in a particular city, they want to send an email to "everyone in these cities with these parameters". They would like to keep track of who attends each event, let people unsubscribe, but not loose their data, track other attributes about each person over time, etc.
The main company site is in Drupal, but this project can use any platform. Any suggestions about php software that can be customized to do this?
There is heaps of software to do this. You will have to get the data into a form that can be imported into a database though like mysql.
Wordpress has lots of plugins that can import mailing lists and news letters.
Once the data is in a database table then you could also write your own quite easily. If you aren't a coder though wordpress plugins or something similar might be the way to go.
Also, checkout mailchimp and services like that.
p.s. if you send several thousands emails you will probably get black listed :P
Obviously there is lots of software to do this, but I was looking for any advice someone might have to help me narrow down the search because there are so many scripts to test.
In this case, I settled on CiviCRM, which has both a drupal and a wordpress integration and does everything that I needed, specifically the ability to record lots of meta data about the individuals in the database and then to segment that data to use for sending email.
https://civicrm.org/
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I'm looking for a subscribe/unsubscribe mailing list to install on my website.
Requirements:
PHP/MySQL;
Cron job: uses scheduling to send email in batches;
Multiple languages: when user is subscribing, they need to select preferred language from a drop-down;
Send in both HTML/Text;
Bounce-email check;
Double opt-in: user must confirm email before being subscribed.
Unsubscribe link: being able to unsubscribe by following a link in the email.
Any suggestions? Could be paid license as well (maximum $40). However, I'm not interested in hosted services with monthly fees.
Thanks!
Maybe have a go with List Messenger? http://www.listmessenger.com/ It's not great, but it is pretty well featured and it's all in PHP so you can hack it about if you want to.
http://phplist.com/ comes to mind
There is a number of PHP mailing list applications around, and to my surprise, almost all turned out to be total crap. At least the open source ones.
The only free one that I have used myself and was happy with is PoMMO. I don't think it can do cron-powered batch sending, and I'm not sure about automated bounce handling, but the rest should be achievable: You can create custom signup forms so language selection shouldn't be a problem (and later, putting subscribers into groups according to the selection).
It seems to have been inactive since 2008, and the back-end template needs a bit of reworking to look good in Firefox, but it has been a reliable workhorse.
Anyway. The PHPList project #Gordon suggests looks more active, which is always good in a public-facing software. Maybe try that first.
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I have a barcode scanner and laptop (ofcourse :)), I'm looking for simple event management app that can process the input from the barcode scanner and keep attendance record for our frequent private meetings.
I wonder if there's an open source software available that'd allow me to manage events using code 128 barcode id cards?
Many thanks for your help.
DIY. Seriously, this would be a perfect project to do. If you're inclined that way!
If you have a barcode scanner that follows some standards in interfacing (serial etc.) and protocol then PHP will be able to read the data. After that it's plain sailing!
EDIT: Seems like amazon sells barcode readers that act like keyboards. This makes interfacing the least of your problems!
Choose a scanner that acts as a keyboard and automatically translates the code 128 to a series of numbers followed by a "return". That way you could use any ol' spreadsheet, website or even Notepad to keep track of your meetings.
Look at Drupal and the many plug-ins that are available there. There are complete conference kits that you should be able to use. I think going for that kind of monster solution will just complicate matters - the relative simple task involved taken in to account...