GO HERE Do you send SMS through VoIP ?

[TDF]

Just curious if many people send SMS through VoIP or if they even have a provider that lets them do it.

A common way is in this format, it can be typed or pasted into the browser bar and off goes the text

hxxps://myaccount.provider.com/clx/sendsms.php?username=xxxxxxxxxx&password=xxxxxxxxxx&from=xxxxxxxxxx&to=xxxxxxxxxx&text=xxxxxxxxxx

it seemed a little awkward to me so I made a simple webpage and stuck it in one of the directories.

Now I'm thinking it could be tidied up added to another tab in asteridex and made to use the asteridex phonebook, just wondered if it is something others might be interested in or is it just me.

 

[wardmundy]

Just curious as to which providers support this. That would give us some idea of the value of the utility. Thx.

 

[TDF]

I'm not sure tbh Ward, it was my reason for asking really to see if many of the providers people use have this ability and if many use it.

I know all or nearly all the Finarea/Betamax variants do, then theres a lot of companies that just do SMS.

I was just curious, I'm not wishing to fill Asteridex full of crap or even presuming that you would be interested in my ideas, its just something I will try to do for my own satisfaction so thought I'd ask if others were interested.

 

[TDF]

Ive been having a play around with this, I've butchered Asteridex and turned it into AsteriSMS

I'm a little stuck on the string that used to open the callboth pop up, it now opens the sms box, but I need to make it insert the phone number.

echo "<A HREF=\"javascript:void(window.open('./sms.php?SEQ=654321" . "&amp;OUT=" . $row["out"]  . "',%20'Window2',%20config='height=250,width=550'))\" onMouseover=\"window.status='".$row["out"]." onMouseout=\"window.status=' '; return true\">" . $row["name"] . "<span> " .$row["out"] . " " . "</span>" . "</A><BR><BR>\n" ;

Any ideas how to accomplish this.

 

[jroper]

Just curious as to which providers support this. That would give us some idea of the value of the utility. Thx.

http://www.voicetrading.com/wholesalesms.html

I have a few friends abroad who use this, it saves a fortune on international texting.

Joe

 

[TDF]

I'm still stuck with this so thought I'd give it another try in case someone can spot the problem.

I click a entry in the Asteridex/sms phonebook and it runs this

javascript:void(window.open('./sms.php?SEQ=654321&OUT=00351962356472',%20'Window2',%20config='height=250,width=550'))

the pop up opens but it doesnt enter the phone number.

the relevant part of index.php

echo "<TD vAlign=top width=\"$w\"><FONT face=verdana,sans-serif>\n" ;
    $query = "SELECT * FROM user1 where name between '$chr' AND '$chr".'zzzz'."' order by name asc";
    $result = mysql_query($query)
        or die("Web site query failed");
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
     echo "<A HREF=\"javascript:void(window.open('./sms.php?SEQ=654321" . "&amp;OUT=" . $row["out"]  . "',%20'Window2',%20config='height=250,width=550'))\" onMouseover=\"window.status='".$row["out"]." onMouseout=\"window.status=' '; return true\">" . $row["name"] . "<span> " .$row["out"] . " " . "</span>" . "</A><BR><BR>\n" ;

and the sms.php

<tr><td><b>SMS to</b></td><td><input type="text" name="to"></td></tr>
        <tr><td><b>Message</b></td><td><textarea name="text" rows=5 cols=40 onkeyup="limitChars(this, 160, 'charlimitinfo')"></textarea><br />
        <span id="charlimitinfo" style=" float:left; color:#aa3333; font-size:15px; font-family:vardana" >Maximum 160 characters.</textarea></td></tr>
        <tr><td> </td><td><input type="submit" value="  Send SMS  "></td></tr>

I'm hoping someone can see what I expect it a simple problem although beyond me.

 

[tel0p]

hmm

I think what you're after is auto-populating the TO: field of the form with the 'OUT' number passed in..

edit your sms.php code posted above to look like this:

<tr><td><b>SMS to</b></td><td><input type="text" name="to" [COLOR=Red]value="<?PHP echo $OUT;?>"[/COLOR]></td></tr>
        <tr><td><b>Message</b></td><td><textarea name="text" rows=5 cols=40 onkeyup="limitChars(this, 160, 'charlimitinfo')"></textarea><br />
        <span id="charlimitinfo" style=" float:left; color:#aa3333; font-size:15px; font-family:vardana" >Maximum 160 characters.</textarea></td></tr>
        <tr><td> </td><td><input type="submit" value="  Send SMS  "></td></tr>

This is the general idea, if it makes sense to you. You're basically rendering the html form per normal but using PHP to 'echo' the variable in memory called $OUT. I just woke up so am a little foggy and could be missing variable declaration or something simple.

 

[TDF]

Thanks tel0p that did the trick.

 

[tel0p]

ok

Not a bother. To go one further try adding or editing your <body> tag in sms.php to set the focus to the txt area, 'onload'. Like:

<body onLoad="[COLOR=Red]form[/COLOR].text.focus();">

Make sure to replace form with the name of your <form>. You didn't include it. This should, in theory, set [the cursor] focus on the txt area as soon as the popup loads...

 

[vcallaway]

Going to have to give that a try.

Right now I use voipcheap.com to do sms. The phone service stinks, but the sms seems to work pretty good.

The url for them is documentd at
http://www.voipcheap.com/en/sms_instructions.html

 

[TDF]

Thanks again tel0p, I couldn't get it working for some reason even after trying every combination I could imagine and finding the missing bit, while searching for answers I found a bit of JS to do the same thing though.

vcallaway, in what way are you unhappy with the phone service ? I know you only get what you pay for etc. but I have to say they have been absolutely trouble free for me.

That page is where I got the info for the string, I used it a few times before getting tired of it and looking for a better way. I've been through a few variations before finding Wards Asteridex which I use mainly as a caller id look up source but now provides the phonebook for AsteriSMS lol

I've attached it incase its any use to you or anyone else.

Its could probobally benifit from tidying up in places, I've just bodged bits together with trial and error and luck mostly.

The problem I need to work out now is the phone numbers, I need to strip the leading 0 and add +44

 

[Ping2]

No, I send SMS by chan_dongle and the php script.
But I would like to send the same message to 30 different mobile numbers in a text file. Can anyone point me in the right direction/script ?
-Ping2

 

[wardmundy]

Ping2 http://nerdvittles.com/?p=1768

 

[Ping2]

Yes, this is the right direction, and I will replace gvoice command with an asterisk sms chan_dongle cmd, but this was somewhat hard. I need to send 8bit ascii, and my guess is that you send ENCODE64 but all examples out there sends only 7bit ascii. (There are lots of examples how to -receive- sms encoded64, but none how to send?
/Ping2

 

[wardmundy]

Ping2: Take a look at this SMS implementation for VoIP.ms. I think it does what you're looking for.