Sending SMS with PHP

How do you send an SMS with PHP? Right now, I send text messages to
verizon users by just adding @vtext.com to their phone number and
emailing that. Is there something like this that I could do for other
phone companies? Or is there some universal way to send a text message
to any number from PHP?

DJ Craig wrote:
> How do you send an SMS with PHP? Right now, I send text messages to
> verizon users by just adding @vtext.com to their phone number and
> emailing that. Is there something like this that I could do for other
> phone companies? Or is there some universal way to send a text message
> to any number from PHP?

Yes, send through a SMS gateway. Clickatell is one:
http://www.clickatell.com . IIRC, they have an API which allows you to
send messages through SMTP or a normal HTTP POST.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

There exists other gateways as well. http://www.aspsms.com/ is the one
I use to send SMS with PHP. Some guy wrote a nice PHP class that
handles everything between the gateway and your script:
http://www.net-track.ch/opensource/phpaspsms/

Then, sending an SMS becomes as easy as:

$sms->setOriginator("...");
$sms->addRecipient("...");
$sms->setContent("An SMS message.");

Usage of al those SMS gateways is not free though, but prices are
cheaper than sending SMS with mobile phones.

Thanks, that's exactly what i was looking for. But in the end, I found
a slightly messier, less reliable way of doing this for free:
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/tex...l?mode=details

You can try StrikeIron's reliable Global SMS service - covers 416
carriers in 160 countries.

http://www.strikeiron.com/ProductDetail.aspx?p=190

Also comes with PHP & Perl code examples for the Global SMS Web Service
- all you need is the number and text to send, and it can be integrated
into any application or Web site, as well as used from a Web form or
desktop client.

PHP Code Example:

http://www.strikeiron.com/support/samplecode.aspx


DJ Craig wrote:
> How do you send an SMS with PHP? Right now, I send text messages to
> verizon users by just adding @vtext.com to their phone number and
> emailing that. Is there something like this that I could do for other
> phone companies? Or is there some universal way to send a text message
> to any number from PHP?