sending SMS from website

[jhilden]

Hi everyone, first off great site, now to my question.

I have a website and I would like to be able to send a text message notification to my cell phone when specific events happen. I don't want to use the email address @sprintpcs.com because I don't have vision so I'd have to pay up the ars.

I found this on another site (may or may not be what I need):
<?php
$content = "<?xml version_";
$len = strlen($content);
$fp = fsockopen( "xml1.aspsms.com", 5061 , &$errno, &$errdesc );
if ( ! $fp ) die ( "Couldn’t connect: $errno $errdesc\n" );
fputs( $fp, "POST /xmlsvr.asp HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs( $fp, "Content-Type: text/xml\r\n");
fputs( $fp, "Content-Length: $len\r\n\r\n");
fputs( $fp, $content);
while ( ! feof( $fp ) )
$reply[] = fgets( $fp, 1024 );
fclose( $fp );
?>

So it looks like this is possible but I need to know the address (sms.sprintpcs.com for exampe) and the port number.

Does anyone know of someone who has tried this and has it working? If I get it working I would be happy to share my script with everyone.

Thanks in advance,
Cheers.

[donblay]

i have some code that i use to run my site that i found at www.sprintdevelopers.com. it was free & open code. i can get you exact link to the thread later for you if you want. it doesn't use the @messaging.sprintpcs.com address, it basically simulates using sprint's text message web page.

[jhilden]

Donblay, if you could post that link or send me your code that would be awesome!!

[donblay]

sure, the thread is at http://www.sprintdevelopers.com/postp260.html. This is the code I used to make my site (www.dbringers.info).
The code (by WFrantz) is:

function http($host, $write)
{
$response = '';
$fp = fsockopen($host, 80);
if ($fp)
{
fwrite($fp, $write);
while (! feof($fp))
{
$response .= fgets($fp, 1024);
}
fclose($fp);
}
return($response);
}

function http_post($host, $page, $post)
{
$write = "POST $page HTTP/1.1\r\n" .
"User-Agent: unknown\r\n" .
"Connection: Close\r\n" .
"Host: $host\r\n" .
"Content-Length: " . strlen($post) . "\r\n" .
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n" .
"Cookie: \$Version=\"1\"; JSESSIONID=\"none\"\r\n" .
"\r\n" .
$post . "\r\n\r\n";

return(http($host, $write));
}

function sendnote($to, $message = '.', $from = '')
{
GLOBAL $track;

$host = 'messagings.sprintpcs.com';
$page = '/textmessaging/composeconfirm';
$post = "phoneNumber=".$to."&message=" . urlencode($message) .
"&callBackNumber=".$from;

$response = http_post($host, $page, $post);

ereg("\?trackNumber=([0-9A-Z]+)", $response, $regs);
$track = $regs[1];

if (stristr($response, "Message sent")) return 0;
if (stristr($response, "not subscribe")) return 2;
if (stristr($response, "Error")) return 3;
return 4;
}

// Example
$result_code = sendnote("8005551111", "Hi there!", "8005552222");

[jhilden]

donblay you rock!!! It worked first try!! If you lived in Minneapolis I'd buy you a beer.

Here's a dumb question for ya: I don't have vision so I pay per outgoing text message, is there any way that I could/would get charged for sending these to myself?

[donblay]

donblay you rock!!! It worked first try!! If you lived in Minneapolis I'd buy you a beer.

Here's a dumb question for ya: I don't have vision so I pay per outgoing text message, is there any way that I could/would get charged for sending these to myself?
i'm not positive but i think you get charged for incomeing messages as well. i have unlimited thought, so i'm not sure. anyone else know more definitively?

[jhilden]

I found this on sprints website when viewing the details of my bill.

Messages Sent & Received - $0.10/msg

Looks like I'm getting charged for both incomming and outgoint, which I think is pretty lame because I can't control who sends me text messages. Maybe I'll call them and complain and see if I can get incomming text for free.

Thanks again for the help.

[rrickc]

Could someone PLEASE help me? I've created a site using frontpage and I copied the script above so that my friends could send the link to the file directly to their phones with having to download to a PC. But when I click the "submit" button I get an internal server error. So I checked the error logs and premature end of script headers for my "messaging.php" file. The file itself looks like this (again, just copy and paste from www.sprintdevelopers.com):
<?php

function http($host, $write)
{
$response = '';
$fp = fsockopen($host, 80);
if ($fp)
{
fwrite($fp, $write);
while (! feof($fp))
{
$response .= fgets($fp, 1024);
}
fclose($fp);
}
return($response);
}

function http_post($host, $page, $post)
{
$write = "POST $page HTTP/1.1\r\n" .
"User-Agent: unknown\r\n" .
"Connection: Close\r\n" .
"Host: $host\r\n" .
"Content-Length: " . strlen($post) . "\r\n" .
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n" .
"Cookie: \$Version=\"1\"; JSESSIONID=\"none\"\r\n" .
"\r\n" .
$post . "\r\n\r\n";

return(http($host, $write));
}

function sendnote($to, $message = '.', $from = '')
{
GLOBAL $track;

$host = 'messagings.sprintpcs.com';
$page = '/textmessaging/composeconfirm';
$post = "phoneNumber=".$to."&message=" . urlencode($message) .
"&callBackNumber=".$from;

$response = http_post($host, $page, $post);

ereg("\?trackNumber=([0-9A-Z]+)", $response, $regs);
$track = $regs[1];

if (stristr($response, "Message sent")) return 0;
if (stristr($response, "not subscribe")) return 2;
if (stristr($response, "Error")) return 3;
return 4;
}

// Example
$result_code = sendnote("8005551111", "Hi there!", "8005552222");

?>

Can someone PLEASE help me?

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