Send SMS from a web app and what are the requirements

[Robert Iliuta]

Hallo,


What is the best solution to send SMS from a web application? and what are the requirements for this? (a gsm modem, etc...) I just need to send , no need to receive.
If someone already implemented something like this and like to share, I appreciate!

Thank you,
Robert

[Johan de Klerk]

Hi Robert,

The quickest to send is via http/xml.
You can send 1000's of sms'ses per hour this way.

a GSM modem is very slow in sending.

http/xml Implementation is quick and easy.
You just setup all you sms sending in a normal source procedure and just call that once you want to send the sms.
You can find all the information on the different operators in their API documentation.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Johan de Klerk

[Robert Iliuta]

Thank you Johan for reply!

You are talking about a SMS Gateway correct? to get a plan per/month or sms credits... I found some company that offer api and documentation how to implement this.
(http://www.clickatell.com/developers/api_http.php)
Nut sure also how easy is to setup something like this...

Company that request sms in a web app will send about 3000 sms per year... They will not send more then 100 sms once.
I could use maybe a gsm modem for this much easy to implement... I do also some test with a small 3G modem ( http://www.3gmodem.com.hk/Huawei/E173U.html ) connected with Winevent and works perfect. Just that I need to write everything in web ... Anyone send sms using Winevent on the web?


Thank you for any suggestions,
Robert

[kevin plummer]

A lot of SMS companies allow you to send the message/number to them via email which is very simple. Having a GSM modem would limit where you install your app.

[RayA]

You can get a list of free email to sms gateways here.

http://www.email-unlimited.com/stuff/send-email-to-phone.htm

From your web app you can send a email to the gateway and it well resend as a text msg
                ex.      3375551212@gateway.com

There is also some paid gateway services out there.   Hope this helps.

Ray Abadie
Lafaytte, La.

[RayA]

Glad its helpful to you.

I am currently looking into writing a email to sms gateway that would use
the carriers own free gateways or you could use your own modem.  It would act like a email server but it would just route your email to the proper sms gateway for transmission.  I have to get a few projects out of the way to start to tackle this but its on my radar screen.  And yes Bruce, I will use Capesoft products to do this with . 

Ray L. Abadie
Lafayette, La.