OT:ish SMS script for web site?

Long shot... but...
Does anyone know of any script that can be integrated with say an e-commerce
website for sending SMS text messages to customer via something like one of the
Betamax clones?

Just an idea for our new site that perhaps customers might like to receive
updates or password reminders via their mobile rather than e-mail if they are
out and about rather than in front of a desk all day long.

Cheers
Pete
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:51:52 +0100, "Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk"
<0845-86-86-888@Cheapest-Prices.ever> wrote:

>Long shot... but...
>Does anyone know of any script that can be integrated with say an e-commerce
>website for sending SMS text messages to customer via something like one of the
>Betamax clones?
An alternative that I have used is to send an email that arrives as a
text. There are various services available for email to text
conversion.
I would guess that Betamax will have protection on their sites,
otherwise it would be possible to interface from your web site to the
SMS facility via a PHP program or similar. As it is highly likely that
such protection will exist then I would think it unlikely that you
would be able to do this without Betamax approval. For example some
sites do allow external apps to access their site for e-commerce
purposes by presenting an agreed referrer URL and additional
authentication. As I am not aware of such access being offered by
Betamax I would assume that it will not be possible to interface with
a web site with any unapproved access. However, if you do succeed then
I'll certainly be interested to hear of how you achieved it.


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Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
> Long shot... but...
> Does anyone know of any script that can be integrated with say an
> e-commerce website for sending SMS text messages to customer via
> something like one of the Betamax clones?


http://aql.com/site/sms_http_gateway.php

or
http://aql.com/site/developerinfo2.php

Which has more program examples.


Of course, this is for sending messages through AQL, which costs money.
They do work really well though.


Tim

Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk <0845-86-86-888@cheapest-prices.ever> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any script that can be integrated with say an
> e-commerce website for sending SMS text messages to customer via something
> like one of the Betamax clones?

Shell script 'fincheck':
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index....e=Finarea%20SA

There seem to be several versions, of which the one I used is from here:
http://www.simong.net/finarea/
They also has a PHP version which I haven't tried.

I tried fincheck with SMSListo.com. It works some of the time, but
sometimes SMSListo comes back with a 'session timeout' page even though it's
just logged me in. You can tell because sending an SMS takes about 5-10
seconds, while a failure comes back straightaway. I don't quite know what's
happening - perhaps sometimes the web requests are too quick for the
website? I've put some debug in my copy but haven't had time to get to the
bottom of it. It's quite a simple script, so shouldn't be too hard to fix.

Maybe others can try it on other Finarea/Betamax sites and see how well it
works?

Theo

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:51:52 +0100, "Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk"
<0845-86-86-888@Cheapest-Prices.ever> wrote:

>Long shot... but...
>Does anyone know of any script that can be integrated with say an e-commerce
>website for sending SMS text messages to customer via something like one of the
>Betamax clones?

http://www.moretext.com

been using it for years.
ISTR there's a PDF of examples on the site somewhere.
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Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> I tried fincheck with SMSListo.com. It works some of the time, but
> sometimes SMSListo comes back with a 'session timeout' page even though it's
> just logged me in. You can tell because sending an SMS takes about 5-10
> seconds, while a failure comes back straightaway. I don't quite know what's
> happening - perhaps sometimes the web requests are too quick for the
> website? I've put some debug in my copy but haven't had time to get to the
> bottom of it. It's quite a simple script, so shouldn't be too hard to fix.

I've fixed that bug and sent the patches upstream (along with some other
improvements). There's now a beta version (filename fincheck.beta) on the
site which hopefully should be released as the main version in a few days.

Theo

Theo Markettos wrote:
> Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> I tried fincheck with SMSListo.com. It works some of the time, but
>> sometimes SMSListo comes back with a 'session timeout' page even though it's
>> just logged me in. You can tell because sending an SMS takes about 5-10
>> seconds, while a failure comes back straightaway. I don't quite know what's
>> happening - perhaps sometimes the web requests are too quick for the
>> website? I've put some debug in my copy but haven't had time to get to the
>> bottom of it. It's quite a simple script, so shouldn't be too hard to fix.
>
> I've fixed that bug and sent the patches upstream (along with some other
> improvements). There's now a beta version (filename fincheck.beta) on the
> site which hopefully should be released as the main version in a few days.

Splendid Theo.
I'll check it out.

Cheers
Pete


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http://www.commercial-gym-equipment.co.uk - Commercial Gym Equipment.

David Quinton wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:51:52 +0100, "Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk"
> <0845-86-86-888@Cheapest-Prices.ever> wrote:
>
>> Long shot... but...
>> Does anyone know of any script that can be integrated with say an e-commerce
>> website for sending SMS text messages to customer via something like one of the
>> Betamax clones?
>
> http://www.moretext.com
>
> been using it for years.
> ISTR there's a PDF of examples on the site somewhere.

If the srript Theo has mentioned/updatd works with SMSlisto them a text
to UK mobile at 0.7p per text has to be a winner.

Our web coder is going to see if it will integrate into the shopping
cart he is writing so customers can receive text once we dispatch goods.

Would be brilliant if it does.

Here's hoping.
:¬)

Pete

Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk <0845-86-86-888@cheapest-prices.ever> wrote:
> Splendid Theo.
> I'll check it out.

It's now as the main version of the script linked from the webpage - have a
look at the script source for more details.

Theo