HI, The vast majority of carriers have a free to use email to sms gateway for their clients phones. There is a list of each carriers format for the email address. Have someone select the carrier in the form when entering the phone number then you have it sent to the email as specified by the carrier. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Nick Stinemates <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > johnlin wrote: > > Let me try and answer your questions. > > > > Do you need to receive SMS? If you need to receive SMS, you will need to > > host your own GSM device or modem so that people can send you SMS. > > > > If not, you can just use internet SMS gateways like clickatell to do the > > work, and post to them by HTTP, XML or email. The cost is about 6-8 > cents > > per SMS. There are cheaper services, but not always reliable. If you > need to > > host your own GSM device, you can use software like > http://www.kannel.org > > (GPL Open Source) or http://www.visualgsm.com. > > > > Regards, > > SMS Gateway Expert > > http://www.visualtron.com > > > > > > AmirBehzad Eslami-3 wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> How can i send SMS messages via PHP? How can i set SMS-headers (UDH)? > >> Does anyone know some article/class/package about this issue? > >> > >> Thank you in advance, > >> -b > >> > >> > >> > > > > > I know of an open source package which uses services hosted by VeriSign > and MBlox. These cost a pretty penny, though, and may not be what you're > after. > The services give you a private channel for your users to interact with > you, and for you to (potentially) respond to them. > > You're looking for SMPP packages. > > -- > ================== > Nick Stinemates (nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > http://nick.stinemates.org > > AIM: Nick Stinemates > MSN: nickstinemates@xxxxxxxxxxx > Yahoo: nickstinemates@xxxxxxxxx > ================== > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Leonard Burton, N9URK http://www.jiffyslides.com service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx leonardburton@xxxxxxxxx "The prolonged evacuation would have dramatically affected the survivability of the occupants."